Psychological Services Training Center

The Psychological Services Center is a mental health clinic that serves as a training site for graduate-level students in the clinical psychology program at the University of Delaware. The students are supervised by professors from the Department of Psychology. Available to community residents, the center offers many types of evidence-based treatments for a variety of problems and serves all age groups. Fees for the services are based on a sliding scale, depending on the number of people in the family and yearly income. In addition to treatment, our center also provides psychological and educational evaluations for children and adults.

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Services

Staff

Contact Information

Fees

Forms

 

 

Services

 

We Offer:

Psychotherapy:

• Individual Therapy: with particular expertise in Depression and Anxiety Disorders
• Family Therapy
• Child/Adolescent Therapy
• Group Therapy
• Couples Therapy

 

Psychological Assessment and Testing:

• Behavior and School Problems
• Learning Disabilities - Children and Adults
• Intellectual Assessment - Developmental Disabilities, Giftedness
• Personality Assessment

 

Staff

 

Professionals:

 

Director: Jennifer L. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Dr. Schwatrz is the Director of the Psychological Services Center and a faculty member in the Department of Psychology.  She graduated from the clinical psychology doctoral program at Idaho State University, completed an internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and received postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania’s Psychopathology Research Unit and Center for Cognitive Therapy. She is licensed in the State of Delaware and specializes in supervising practicum therapists in using Empirically Supported Treatments approaches to patient care. Dr. Schwartz has worked with diverse patient populations and has experience treating mood, anxiety, eating, behavioral, and personality disorders. She also has significant experience with psychoeducational evaluations.

Lawrence Cohen, Ph.D.

Lawrence Cohen received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Florida State University in 1977. He interned at the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center. He is licensed in Delaware. His clinical work is primarily with adults who are depressed or in crisis. He specializes in daily diary research, with a focus on daily stress and coping. Current diary research involves depressed adults in cognitive therapy (in collaboration with the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research) and breast cancer patients and their spouses/partners (in collaboration with the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center). His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He directed the Psychological Services Center from 1980-1985, the Clinical Psychology Program from 1987-1992, and was the Department’s Associate Chair from 1994-2002.

Mary Dozier, Ph.D.
Mary Dozier is Amy E. du Pont Chair of Child Development at the University of Delaware. She graduated from Duke University with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She completed an internship and residency at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C. Her first faculty position was at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where she studied treatment use among adults with serious psychiatric disorders. Since coming to Delaware in 1994, she has studied the development of young children who are neglected and young foster children. She has developed training programs for the caregivers of these children, with efficacy trials funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.

 

Adele M. Hayes, Ph.D.

Adele Hayes is an Associate Professor and is the Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1991 and completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical School. She was also selected as a Van Ameringen Fellow by Dr. Aaron T. Beck and has received specialized training in cognitive-behavioral therapy as part of this research and clinical fellowship. Her research focuses on improving therapies for depression and personality disorders, and this work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. She is currently developing a treatment for mothers suffering from depression that also aims to decrease risk in their children. This work is being conducted in collaboration with Wilmington Head Start and the University of Delaware Early Learning Center. Dr. Hayes has experience treating depression, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders and is licensed in the state of Delaware.

 

Roger Kobak, Ph.D.

Roger Kobak is a member of the Psychology Department where he served as Director of Clinical Training from 1995-2003.  He received his Ph.D in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia and a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in clinical/developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Since joining the Psychology Department, Dr. Kobak has received three NIMH grants to study how family relationships can support children and adolescents who experience school and peer problems. He has disseminated his work to other clinicians through an extensive list of publications and by providing national and international training workshops.  His research informs his work at the Psychological Services Training Center where he supervises practicum therapists.

Julie A. Hubbard, Ph.D.

Julie Hubbard, a licensed psychologist, is an Associate Professor in the clinical psychology doctoral training program at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University in 1995 and completed a clinical internship at Brown University School of Medicine. Dr. Hubbard’s research, which has been supported through the National Institute of Mental Health, focuses on understanding and developing school-based interventions for children’s peer rejection, aggressive behavior problems, and difficulties with anger regulation. This research emphasis provides a foundation for her supervision of pre-doctoral clinical students in the Psychological Services Training Center, where she specializes in supervising cases in which children are displaying externalizing behavior problems.

Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Ph.D.

Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. from the clinical psychology doctoral programat The Pennsylvania State University and completed hisclinical internship at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute/Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.Although his clinical experiencehas included working with adult anxiety and depression, and supervising doctoral and psychiatry medical students,Dr.Laurenceau specializes in couples therapy and pre-marital counseling/education. His primary research interests focus on understanding the intrapersonal and interpersonal processes by which partners in marital and romantic relationships develop and maintain intimacy, whichis supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Delaware.

Graduate Students:

The PSTC is staffed by doctoral students in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Delaware and are supervised by faculty of the program. Our current students are:

Jorden Cummings

Jason Krompinger

Clare Smith

Lydia Romano

Stephanie Ewing

Johanna Bick

Kristy Sheffler

 

Support Staff:

Our clinic is staffed Tuesday (5-8), Wednesday (4-8), and Friday (4-7) evenings. Should you call during a time when we do not have support staff, you are welcome to leave a message and we’ll call you back.

 

Contact Information

Address:

The PSTC is located on the campus of the University of Delaware.

Our physical address is: 203 W. Main Street

                                   Newark, Delaware 19716-2578

The name of our building is: Belmont House

Our phone number is (302) 831-2717. Please leave a message if nobody is available to take your call.

Our fax number is (302) 831-3154.

For confidentiality reasons, the PSTC does not use e-mail. The best way to contact us is by phone.

Hours:

PSTC hours are by appointment only. Once you have been assigned to a student, that student will contact you to schedule a mutually agreeable time. Our clinic phones are answered regularly on

Tuesdays between 5 and 8 PM

Wednesdays between 4 and 8 PM

Friday between 4 and 7 PM

However, you are always welcome to leave a message at any time and a member of our staff will return your call as promptly as possible.

The PSTC serves members of the community and is fully operational during the academic year (September-May), but also has limited hours during winter and summer sessions.

Parking:

There are several parking meters available outside the PSTC’s front door as well as in the parking lot directly next to the PSTC (lot 86). We are unable to provide money for the parking meters, do not have a reserve of change for the meters in our facility, and cannot “fix” tickets that are received. Meters are checked between the hours of  8 AM and Midnight.

 

 

Fees

 

Fees:

The PSTC operates on a sliding fee scale. The charge per service depends on the number of individuals who live in the household and the yearly household income. Our therapy sessions typically range between $12 and $40 per session, and our psychoeducational evaluations typically cost between $150 and $500. Payment is due at the time of service unless alternative arrangements have been made. There is no charge for the initial intake session regardless of type of service requested.

We are happy to provide documentation of services should you wish to submit claims to your insurance, however, be advised that it unlikely that your company will accept your claim as services that are provided by students are usually not covered by insurance.

Facility:

The PSTC is located in Belmont House, a freestanding building on the outskirts of the University campus. The clinic is a large house that was built in the 1800s. While the outside has been maintained in such a way as to preserve the historic appearance of the building, the inside has undergone extensive renovations to provide our therapists and clients with a comfortable space and with cutting edge technological resources.  

Emergencies:

Due to student schedules, the PSTC is not staffed regularly. We do not have regularly scheduled hours and are not staffed after hours. Therefore, if you have an emergency which requires immediate assistance or attention, it is best to contact the

Delaware Helpline at 1-800-652-2929.

 

You can also call 9-1-1 for any medical or mental health emergency.

 

Messages at the PSTC  MIGHT NOT be checked on the same day that you call, so if there is an emergency, please call one of the numbers above.

If you believe there might be the possibility of an emergency at some point in the future, please let your therapist know so that both of you can generate a plan of how to handle the situation.

 

Forms*

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Consent for Services

Sliding Fee Scale

Patient Information Form