Vincenzo Roma, Ph.D.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE - POSTDOCTORAL

 

Clinical and Faculty Psychologist

Behavioral Health Consultant – Internal and Family Medicines

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton -

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Description: 1). Site for Navy physician residency training program 2) Integrated services in Patient Centered Medical Home team (PCMH) for active-duty sailors, marines and families presenting with mild to severe emotional symptoms, stress, and health risk behaviors

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Responsibilities: 1) As faculty psychologist providing, brief lectures in behavioral medicine, resident consultations for training program related stressors, and facilitating staff trainings. 2) As clinic psychologist providing brief, focused assessment and treatment using evidence-based interventions and consultation with PCMH teams in family and internal medicine including subspecialties (Neurology, cardiology, pulmonology, dermatology, geriatrics, primary medical (nursing, physician, and chiropractor), and ancillary services (pharmacy, social work, nutrition) within PCMH. Conduct functioning-focused MH evaluations (chronic pain, sleep, mood, substance use, etc.), staff training, risk assessments, and facilitation of same-day warm hand offs.

 

Clinical Psychologist

Behavioral Health Consultant – Primary Care

Naval Medical Center San Diego -

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Description: Integrated MH services in Patient Centered Medical Home team (PCMH) for active-duty sailors presenting with mild to moderate emotional symptoms, stress, and health risk behaviors. Behavioral health consultative services are provided to family and aviation medicine specialties at Naval Air Station North Island.

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Responsibilities: Provide brief, focused assessment and treatment using evidence-based interventions and consultation with PCMH teams in family and aviation medicine (psychology, MH nursing, and psychiatry), primary medical (nursing, physician, flight surgeons), and ancillary services (pharmacy, social work, nutrition) within PCMH. Conduct functioning-focused MH evaluations (chronic pain, sleep, mood, substance use, etc.), staff training, risk assessments, and facilitation of same-day warm hand offs.

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Primary Care Mental Health Integration

VA San Diego Healthcare System-

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Description: Co-located MH services in Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) for patients presenting with mild to moderate emotional symptoms, stress, and health risk behaviors.

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Responsibilities: Provide brief, focused assessment and treatment using evidence-based interventions and consultation with PACT teams (psychology, MH nursing, and psychiatry), primary medical (nursing, physician), and ancillary services (pharmacy, social work, nutrition) within PACT. Conduct transplant evaluations, chronic pain assessments, co-facilitate ACT-based chronic pain group, complete warm-hand offs for MH evaluations, supervise psychology intern, and provided coverage in maintaining primary responsibility for managing new behavioral medicine consultations.

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Psycho-Oncology and Health Promotion

VA San Diego Healthcare System-

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Description: Co-located psycho-oncology services in outpatient and inpatient Hematology/Oncology clinics.

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Responsibilities: Perform focused assessments and interventions for outpatient, inpatients, and those undergoing infusion treatments. Screen for cancer-related psychological distress, general mental health, interventions that promote adjustment to diagnosis and treatment, encouraging compliance with treatment recommendations, and referral to other supportive services. Work interprofessionally with treatment providers, conducting transplant evaluations, and attend weekly tumor board. Facilitate Gateway to Health Living group promoting healthy behavior change using principles of motivational interviewing and follow patients progress across time. Implemented EBT’s for cancer-related distress and end of life concerns through ACT and Dignity Therapy.

 

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE- PREDOCTORAL

 

Psychology Intern

Health Psychology and Integrated Care

VA Portland Healthcare System-

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Description: General Medicine Psychiatry Clinic (GMPC), Health Psychology Service (HPS), and Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI). Short-term behavioral medicine is provided in these clinics as well as opportunities for evaluations in the Post-Deployment Clinic.

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Responsibilities: Provided brief psychotherapy and assessments, provided feedback to Veterans and providers, conducted post-deployment assessments, implemented of brief treatments in the exam room, and interventions for chronic medical conditions such as: chronic pain, diabetes management, weight control, and smoking cessation.

 

Psychology Intern

Inpatient Mental Health and Recovery

VA Portland Healthcare System-

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Description: The Inpatient Psychiatry Unit consists of several multi-disciplinary teams, each of which contains an attending psychiatrist, psychiatry residents, social worker, nursing staff, and psychologist. Veterans on the unit generally have acute distress and the average length of stay is about 7 days. Diagnoses range from major mental disorders to personality disorders. Other significant problems include: substance use disorders, psychosis, and risk for self-harm.

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Responsibilities: Attended and consulted during team meetings (i.e. morning report, treatment team meeting), co-facilitated recovery-oriented groups, provided consultation and psychological assessment services as requested by patients and staff, provided brief individual and motivational interviewing sessions, trained unit staff on MI techniques, provided supervision to psychology practicum student, and facilitated training through motivational interviewing integrity (MITI 4).

 

Psychology Intern

Substance Abuse Treatment Program

VA Portland Healthcare System-Vancouver Division

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Description: The Substance Use Treatment Program (SATP) is an outpatient clinic that consists of an interdisciplinary team of social workers, nurses, a psychiatrist, and psychologists to serve Veterans primarily with substance use disorders (SUD) and comorbid diagnoses. A considerable number of Veterans in this setting are concurrently receiving residential substance use treatment and struggle with homelessness.

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Responsibilities: Provided SUD assessments, conducted evaluations for potential liver transplant, evidenced-based treatment planning and implementation, co-facilitated DBT for SUD and dual diagnosis groups, development and implementation of a transdiagnostic group treatment for anxiety, mood, and substance use based on the Unified Protocol, provided diagnostic consultations for providers, provided on-going individual treatment and motivational interviewing (i.e. consultations and referrals), trained on MI adherence though the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI 4), provided consultation on interdisciplinary complex disorders team, and facilitated coordination of treatment with providers.

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Telehealth Therapist

2017 Nebraska AIDS Project Telehealth Services

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Description: The Nebraska AIDS Project Telehealth clinic is an outreach service to serve individuals who have limited access to quality mental health services due to geographic locations. Mental health services are provided via teleconferencing and limited to clients of specific programs that contract with the clinic, such as the Department of Health and Human Services in Nebraska. A considerable number of individuals served in this setting are living with HIV/AIDS.

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Responsibilities: Provided diagnostic interviews, evidenced-based treatment planning and implementation, and facilitated coordination of treatment with providers.

 

Psychology Extern

Specialized Substance Abuse Supervision Unit

Lancaster County Probation

Lincoln, NE

 

Description: The Lancaster Adult Probation Reporting Center is part of the Nebraska Corrections system, serving probationers with current felony and drug charges. The Specialized Substance Abuse Supervision Unit is a division of the state probation system designed to reduce recidivism among high-risk individuals with multiple drug-related offenses. Clients served mainly present with dual diagnosis concerns, particularly alcohol and amphetamine dependencies, posttraumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders.

 

Responsibilities: Provided ongoing individual therapy, conducted substance use risk assessments, administered and interpreted personality assessments and semi-structured diagnostic interviews (e.g., MINI) as part of evaluations, facilitated mandated anger management groups (12-sessions each). Groups were based on principles of dialectical behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing

 

Psychology Extern

2016 Uta Halee Adolescent Residential Group Home

Rite of Passage

Omaha, NE

 

Description: The Rite of Passage Uta Halee Academy is a residential setting for adolescent females with a variety of behavioral and emotional issues. Adolescents are referred by child welfare agencies, juvenile courts, and private sources. Programming includes individualized assessment and treatment planning, facilitation of mental health and substance abuse, education remediation services, and cognitive-behavioral approaches to promoting a healthy living environment.

 

Responsibilities: Conducted intake interviews, assessments, and diagnostic evaluations for clients at admission to the program, developed individualized treatment planning reports based on assessment results, provided feedback to clients based on assessment results, facilitated Thinking for a Change group, provided consultation to staff, and discussed case conceptualization and treatment recommendations with a formal multidisciplinary treatment team. Typical assessment measures administered included behavioral/emotional checklists (e.g., BASC-2), cognitive screeners (e.g., WASI), substance abuse screeners (e.g., SASSI-A2) and other appropriate measures based on referral issues.

 

Psychology Extern

Psychological Consultation Center

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Description: The PCC is the training clinic for the Clinical Psychology Training Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The PCC serves a broad range of individuals and couples. While it does serve the university, clients are primarily from the surrounding community. Presenting problems included anxiety disorders, mood disorders, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, PTSD, obsessive-compulsive disorders, borderline personality disorder, and dependent personality disorder.

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Responsibilities: Completed diagnostic interviews, evidence-based treatment planning and implementation, coordination of treatment with other providers, consultations with other providers, and evaluations for a range of problems including diagnostic clarification, disability, functional impairment, ADHD, and learning disability.

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Psychology Extern

Anxiety Disorders Clinic

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Description: The Anxiety Disorders Clinic is a specialty clinic housed within the Psychological Consultation Center that specializes in the evidence-based assessment and treatment of anxiety and related disorders in adults.

 

Responsibilities: Conducted brief screening and risk assessments with potential clients via telephone, administration of the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for the DSM-5 at pre-treatment, implementation of empirically supported cognitive-behavioral therapy, and implementation of transdiagnostic individual therapy.

 

Counseling Intake Intern

North County Lifeline

Vista, CA

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Description: North County Lifeline is a non-profit organization providing various services to qualifying families. Services include youth development, behavioral health, child abuse prevention and intervention, housing and stability, and mediation and legal services.

 

Responsibilities: Facilitated anti-theft program for middle school teens with a history of shoplifting, contacted parents to obtain intake information and schedule intake appointments, summarized background information for client files. In addition, performed clerical duties: updated and created new client files and updated the internal electronic database.

 

 

SERVICE EXPERIENCE

 

June 2018 – Diversity Committee Member

June 2019 Diversity Committee

VA San Diego Health Care System

 

Description: Member of a post-doctoral residency committee to identify, improve, and maintain cultural competencies of psychology training program . Committee met with program training director to discuss needs and concerns of larger post-doctoral training program trainees improving knowledge, awareness, and skills in practicing and teaching that supports a more diverse environment.

 

June 2017 – Diversity Committee Member

June 2018 Multicultural and Diversity Committee

VA Portland Health Care System

 

Description: Member of a psychology team to identify, improve, and maintain cultural competencies of staff and trainees. Committee provided educational events and consultation towards improving knowledge, awareness, and skills in practicing, teaching, and supervising in an inclusive environment.

 

GRANT-FUNDED RESEARCH AWARDED AND SUBMISSIONS

 

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, Not funded- April 2016 (F31). Project entitled, “Cross-cutting Mechanisms that Contribute to Developing Anxiety-Related Alcohol Use Problems Among College Students.” Faculty mentors: Debra A. Hope, Ph.D., Lindsay S. Ham, Ph.D.

 

National Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Trainee, Cancer Prevention Research Training Program, Awarded Summer 2011 (Training grant R25E CA56452, Principal Investigator Shine Chang, Ph.D.). Project entitled, “Exploring the Mediating Effect of Self-Reevaluation on Depression Stages of Change in Pregnant Smokers.” Faculty mentor: Janice A. Blalock, Ph.D.

 

SELECT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

 

Madrigal, L., Roma, V.G., Caze, T., & Hope, D.A. (2018). Factor structure and gender invariance testing for the sport anxiety scale-2 (SAS-2). Journal of Clinical and Sports Psychology. 12(2), 1-30.

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Roma, V.G & Hope, D.A. (2017). Are we certain about which measure of intolerance of uncertainty to use yet? Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 46(4), 327-338.

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Roma, V. & Hope, D. (2017). Anxiety disorders: overview. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology (Vol. 7, pp. 227-235). Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781483365817.n89.

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Mona, L. R., Syme, M. L., Cameron, R. P., Clemency Cordes, C., Fraley, S. S., Baggett, L. R., Smith, K., & Roma, V. G. (2014). Sexuality and disability: A disability-affirmative approach to sex therapy. In Y. M. Binik & K. Hall (Eds.), Principles and Practices of Sex Therapy (5th ed.). New York: Guilford.

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Mertz, E.L., Malcarne, V. L., Roesch, S. C., Ko, C. M., Emerson, M., Roma, V. G. & Sadler, G. R. (2013). Psychometric properties of the positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS) original and short forms in an African American community sample. Journal of Affective Disorders, 151(3), 942-949.