This invited talk will use humour and real-life examples to explore the unlikely career experiences for a psychologist based in St. John’s, NL, providing provincial services to clients living in rural, remote, and northern parts of Newfoundland and Labrador. Dr. Hubbard will discuss the transition from training in a major Canadian city to learning the culture, traditions, forms of connection, humility, challenges, and opportunities of a mostly rural province. Advice will be provided for potential trainees or those looking for an adventurous change in career location, as well as important lessons for those providing tele-health to rural and remote communities. Additional discussion will be invited from attendees working in other remote, rural, northern communities regarding ongoing challenges and opportunities working with clients in these communities.
Dr. Janine Hubbard is a Registered Psychologist based in St. John's Newfoundland. She completed her graduate training in Clinical Developmental Psychology at York University, and her clinical residency at the IWK Hospital in Halifax. She moved to St. John's in 2003 and since that time has worked in the health care system, as well as a private practice and graduate teaching in the PsyD program at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (MUN). Dr. Hubbard has been actively involved in Psychology provincially and nationally through her involvement with the fraternal psychology association (APNL) and the regulatory board (NLPB) and nationally with Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). She provides frequent interviews to local and national media on a variety of psychology-related topics including a weekly segment "Get Psyched with Dr. Janine" on the local evening tv news. Working within the provincial health care system she has a provincial mandate meaning she sees patients from all over NL including some from very rural, remote, and northern communities and previously visited Labrador to offer "traveling clinics".
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