MSCP Update & Page Haviland and Autumn Keefer - First MSCP Graduates

Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology Celebrates Success

The Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology (MSCP) program celebrated a great number of historic wins in 2021. First, the program was granted American Psychological Association (APA) designation. This makes ISU the fourth program in the country to achieve APA designation and is professional recognition that ISU’s education and training program meets the highest level of academic and training standards. Second, the program is now approved to be delivered in a hy-flex model offering either in-person or distance learning options. The program is launching a fully online option beginning in the fall of 2022. This opens the door for practicing psychologists from across the United States to enroll. Of note, two active duty United States Navy psychologists will begin as ISU MSCP students in the fall. The students are attending through the Navy Medical Service Crops DUINS program, which offers fellowships and masters/doctorate level degree programs to officers. A new Integrated Mental Health Clinic at ISU-Meridian is now open. The clinic provides both in-person and telehealth evaluation and medication management for patients suffering from a variety of mental health conditions requiring psychiatric medication. Providing these much-needed services for Idaho residents also gives students in the MSCP program opportunities for enhanced learning experiences to prepare them for their field. Supporters of the Integrated Mental Health Clinic include Optum Idaho, who contributed $100,000 to provide tuition support for up to five licensed Idaho Behavioral Health Plan (IBHP) psychologists. Optum also provided $50,000 in funding for a licensed physician who will provide supervision and support for IBHP enrollees while training in the MSCP program. “This partnership between Optum Idaho and ISU is another great example of what can be achieved by working together to improve access to behavioral health care services across Idaho,” says Dennis Woody, PhD, Optum Sr. Clinical Psychologist. And last but not least, the MSCP program celebrated its first two graduates in August 2021, Dr. Page Haviland and Dr. Autumn Keefer. Congratulations to these two graduates! Get to know them below. Dr. Page Haviland

Dr. Page Haviland has over 27 years of inpatient, outpatient, academic, and corporate psychological experience. Dr. Haviland received her bachelor’s and first master’s degree from California State University at Fullerton in psychology. She received her second master’s degree and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, LA campus. She received her third masters at ISU in the MSCP program. Dr. Haviland began her career as a Navy psychologist, completing her internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. She has since worked as a psychologist in the private sector. Dr. Haviland has treated hundreds of adults in both in-patient and out-patient settings with a broad range of mental health issues while serving in various Navy facilities. She was the department head of the psychology outpatient clinic in Patuxent River, Maryland. As clinical director of the Navy‘s largest inpatient alcohol rehabilitation center located in Jacksonville, Florida, she supervised the treatment of adult inpatients with drug and alcohol abuse and addiction issues as well as eating disorders. Dr. Haviland advised leadership in various naval commands in the areas of aeromedical psychology and forensic psychology. She has taught Abnormal Psychology, Test and Measurements, and Learning and Cognition courses at Columbia College. She worked at the Amundsen-Scott Station in the South Pole, where she conducted individual and community assessments for “winter over” staff and collected data on seasonal affective disorder and the effects of sustained isolation for the University of San Diego and NASA respectively. She spent six years consulting with corporate executives in the United States and Germany in the areas of change management; merger and acquisition integration; high potential development; succession planning; and faltering executive interventions. Dr. Haviland was president of the Idaho Psychological association and was part of the advocacy team that wrote the bill allowing psychologists with appropriate education to prescribe medication in the state of Idaho. Dr. Haviland has one 18-year old daughter and two dogs, and she also loves to golf. She has been in private practice for 18 years and recently got hired by St. Alphonsus hospital to work as a prescribing psychologist in their comprehensive Pain and spine clinics in Nampa and Boise.