Psychologist
Saskatchewan Health Authority
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Alexis Arbuthnott, Ph.D., R.D.Psych., is a clinical psychologist with the Saskatchewan Health Authority in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. She received her doctoral degree through the Clinical Psychology: Applied Developmental Emphasis program at the University of Guelph in 2018. She has experience providing psychological assessments and interventions with children, adolescents, emerging adults and families across the continuum of outpatient, acute inpatient, and residential care. Dr. Arbuthnott's current position with the Saskatchewan Health Authority is on the Adolescent Psychiatry Unit at the Regina General Hospital. Here she is involved in direct client care within a multidisciplinary inpatient team, she supervises clinical psychology graduate students and psychiatry residents, and she provides consultation to other mental health professionals and community agencies. She is also an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Arbuthnott has taught courses in personality psychology at the undergraduate level, she has published multiple research articles and presented on the topics of nonsuicidal self-injury and equipping parents to support youth with complex mental health needs, and she is an author in The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children: Theory, Research and Clinical Applications edited by Ana Gomez and Jill Hosey. She is currently conducting research on trauma and dissociation among youth within an inpatient setting. She also volunteers her time on several ISSTD committees and special interest groups, including the Child and Adolescent Treatment Guidelines Workgroup, and she is the current editor of ISSTD News. With these platforms, she is a strong advocate for compassionate and collaborative trauma-informed care.
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