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Jennie David, Ph.D
2 articles
Jennie David is a fifth year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at Drexel University, working under the mentorship of Drs. Brian Daly & Doug Chute. Jennie earned her Psychology with Honors degree from Boston University in 2013, where she completed a thesis investigating medical decision-making characteristics of adolescent patients with chronic rheumatologic illnesses and their parents. She has worked in a variety of disease populations, including HIV, cardiac surgery, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Jennie is interested in medical decision-making, informed consent, and medical literacy in a pediatric trans-diagnostic chronic illness population, with a particular emphasis on adolescents transitioning to adult care. Jennie is currently completing her predoctoral internship at Neumours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children.
Self-Care as a Clinical Competency
As a newly minted post-doctoral fellow, I have repeatedly encouraged junior trainees to eat lunch, talk about their pets, get candy from my candy bowl, or offer to get them coffee if I am already headed out to get my own. At its core, I am trying to model and foster self-care amongst trainees in […]
Jennie David, Ph.D + 1 more
February 2, 2020
Trainee Perspectives on the Importance of Self-Care and Research in Clinical Supervision
The breakneck speed of working on an inpatient behavioral medicine team of an urban tertiary hospital is quite often both exhilarating and exhausting for clinical psychology doctoral students. There is an idiosyncratic rhythm to the workload, as new consults roll in or patients the service follows are readmitted to the hospital. The expectation for trainees […]
Jennie David, Ph.D + 1 more
December 12, 2018