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• Frank Harrell Redwood Distinguished Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Co-Director, EVMS Clinical Psychology Internship Program (2006-present)
• Director, Psychology Division, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1992-present)
• Interim Chair, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, (2006-2009, 1994-1997)
• Assessment, Founding Editor (1994-2004)
• President, Section 9, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, 2007

Forensic psychology evaluation and consultation (e.g., custody and visitation issues, malpractice and personal injury litigation, and sex offender evaluation); characteristics of adolescent psychopathology; Psychological assessment of adolescents and adults.

Dr. Robert Archer is the Frank Harrell Redwood Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Archer is the author of over 150 articles and book chapters on psychological assessment issues. He is also author of the texts, Using the MMPI With Adolescents and MMPI-A: Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology (3^rd edition) (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987; 2005), and coauthor of the MMPI-A Casebook (PAR, 1994) and Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment (Wiley, 2002). Dr. Archer recently edited the text, Forensic Uses of Clinical Assessment Instruments (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006) and is a past-President of the Assessment Section (IX) of the Clinical Psychology Division (12) of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Archer served on the advisory committee to the University of Minnesota Press for the development of the MMPI-A and is coauthor of the MMPI-A Manual. He is currently working on a series of research projects related to forensic applications of the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-A. Dr. Archer is the Founding Editor of Assessment, a quarterly journal that began publication in March 1994 and served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment from 1991 through 2002. Dr. Archer is working in conjunction with Auke Tellegen, Yossef Ben-Porath, and Richard Handel to develop the MMPI-A-RF.

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Vice-Chair, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (1993 – Present)
Co-Director, The Neuropsychology Center at EVMS

Assessment – neuropsychological, intellectual, academic, and personality; ADHD, LD, Brain Injury.

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Art Therapy

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Director, Art Therapy & Counseling Program

She received her B.A. in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, her M.S. in Art Therapy from Hahnemann Medical University (now Drexel) and her Psy.D. from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology (now Argosy-Chicago).

Prior to coming to EVMS, Dr. Calisch’s academic positions included professor of graduate psychology at Argosy University in Dallas, associate professor and director of art therapy at the University of Louisville, associate professor and director of the art therapy program at Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec), and assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her clinical appointments have included founding art therapist at Michael Reese Hospital, Director of Expressive Therapies at the University of Chicago Billings Hospital, Director of the Expressive Therapies Department at University Hospital, and art therapist at Central State Hospital-Louisville, Presbyterian Hospital-Dallas and Southwestern Medical Center-Zale Lipshy-Dallas.

‌Professionally, Dr. Calisch has served as chair of the Educational Program Approval Board for several terms and as a director on the Board of the American Art Therapy Association for two terms. She has presented at numerous local, national and international conferences and has published on the topics of supervision, cultural diversity, problem- focused art therapy and theoretical orientations.

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My research examines the associations between relationships and chronic pain or chronic illness.  It considers both positive and negative aspects of relationships, including domestic violence.

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Assistant Professor, EVMS Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Cognitive Therapy Program

My research examines the associations between relationships and chronic pain or chronic illness.  It considers both positive and negative aspects of relationships, including domestic violence.

Dr. Cubic specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and women’s issues. She obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Louisiana State University (1992) and completed two years of extramural fellowship training in cognitive therapy at the Center for Cognitive Therapy (Univ. of PA) and the Beck Institute. She is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT) and is the only ACT-certified cognitive therapist in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Dr. Cubic supervises and teaches CBT for graduate students, psychology interns, psychiatry residents, and practicing clinicians. She has made multiple national presentations on cognitive therapy and eating disorders.

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Professor and Research Director, EVMS Graduate Art Therapy and Counseling Program

Art Therapy education
Art Therapy assessment and outcomes research
Children's artistic developmen

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Medical Education in Mental Health and Addiction Medicine

Medical Education in Mental Health and Addiction Medicine

Dr. Fore-Arcand has worked in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School for the past 20 years.  She coordinates education, Co-Directs the Addiction Medicine Curriculum and is Assistant Director of the Psychiatry Clerkship as well as serves on the Education Policy Committee for the Psychiatry Residency and coordinates volunteer research assistants within the department.

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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, EVMS (2011-present)

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, EVMS (2005-2011)

Cognitive-behavioral pscyhotherapy; Anxiety disorders; Personality assessment

The clinical assessment of psychopathology and personality with an emphasis on the MMPI-2-RF (Restructured Form), MMPI-2 and MMPI-A.

Dr. Handel received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University.

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• Associate Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2004 - present
• Assistant Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 1999 – 2004
• Staff Psychologist, The Child Abuse Program of Hampton Roads, Norfolk, VA, 1996-1998
• Director of Outpatient Clinical Services, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2006 - present

Autism for diagnosis and treatment; Multicultural training and treatment

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• Assistant Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 2010 - present
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Eastern Shore Community Services Board, 2009 - present

• Mood and anxiety disorders in children/adolescents
• Autism spectrum disorders and developmental delay
• Integration of psychotherapeutic/psychopharmacologic treatment modalities
• Community-based mental health, systems of care

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• Associate Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (July 2009-present)
• Assistant Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Jan 2006-June 2009)
• Chair, Research Advisory Committee, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (2006-present)
• Vice Chair, EVMS Institutional Review Board (August 2010-present); Board Member (2006-July 2010)
• Member, Comprehensive Examination Committee, Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology (July 2006-Present)

My research is focused in the area of cardiovascular behavioral medicine and psychiatric/behavioral genetics. My interdisciplinary research program aims to study the molecular-genetic and environmental influences on:

• mood disorders
• personality
• cognitive abilities
• lifestyle-related risk factors for cardiovascular disease

Most recently, my research focuses on neurobiologic mechanisms that may account for the co-morbidity between negative affectivity, depression and coronary artery disease using a molecular genetics approach.

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Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry

Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia

Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Assistant Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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• Vice-Chair, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Assistant Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Director, EVMS Psychiatry Residency Training Program

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Associate Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Consultation-liaison Psychiatry
Treatment resistant mood/anxiety disorders
Neuropsychiatry
Substance detoxification (alcohol)

Dr. Spiegel joined EVMS in 2001 after almost a decade in private practice. He obtained his medical degree from SUNY-Health Science Center at Brooklyn, where he first gained an interest in cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders. Dr. Spiegel then completed his psychiatry residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Hershey-Penn State. His areas of interest include behavioral treatments for geriatrics and the interface between cognitive therapy and psychopharmacology for anxiety and mood disorders. Dr. Spiegel is a clinical supervisor for psychiatry residents and psychology interns and presents to community mental health professionals.

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• Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Co-Director, The Neuropsychology Center at EVMS

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Associate Professor, EVMS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Autism

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