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Svenja Wacker, PH.D. Dr. Svenja received her doctorate degree
in Clinical Psychology from George Mason University with a specialty area
Adult Neuropsychology. For her predoctoral fellowship at Yale University
School of Medicine she worked with patients through the Neuropsychology
Service at Connecticut Mental Health Center and Gaylord Rehabilitation
Hospital. She then gained additional specialty training at the postdoctoral
level in neuropsychological assessment of geriatric, psychiatric, and
neurological patient populations through Harvard Medical School. Her clinical focus is on the assessment of neuropsychological functioning in adult patients within various inpatient and outpatient settings and on identifying individualized treatment recommendations for patients with central nervous system disorders such as brain trauma, stroke, dementia, learning disorders, attentional deficits, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Svenja has facilitated various therapeutic groups for individuals with brain injuries and has served as a consultant to the Brain Injury Association of Virginia, where she designed and implemented a “Neurobics” workshop for brain trauma survivors. Her therapeutic strategies also include animal-facilitated therapy. Dr. Svenja has incorporated the help of her four therapy dogs into her work for many years by monopolizing on the nonjudgmental affection of dogs to bring a smile her patients’ faces. Dr. Svenja has also taught courses in biopsychology and neuroanatomy at George Mason University and Emmanuel College. She has presented her research on reliability issues in self-report of head trauma history and on personality correlates of traumatic brain injury at national psychology conferences and has recently also conducted research on the utility of neuropsychological measures with immigrant populations and on neurocognitive evaluations in patients with HIV/AIDS.
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