2828 Speer Blvd., Unit 118 Denver, CO 80211 Office (303) 455-9480 Email: Vicordero@aol.com Offices in Denver, Greeley, Longmont EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS Colorado Psychologist License Number 2722 September 95-96 August 1995 August 94-95 May 1990 Post-doctoral Fellowship -Rehabilitation Psychology Supervised one-year appointment. University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, University Hospital, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Doctor of Clinical Psychology- Psy.D. University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology APA Accredited Program. Clinical Psychology Internship. Audie L Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio Texas APA Accredited Internship. Emphasis on Division 40 criteria. Bachelor of Arts -Psychology Bachelor of Arts -Communication Disorders and Speech Science Minor - Chicano Studies University of Colorado, Boulder Bilingual -Spanish Fluency CLINICAL EXPERIENCE 10/96-Current Clinical & Forensic Psychology Independent Practice & Director of Latino Behavioral Health Services Provide contract psychological services to various private, government, and public agencies. Services include psychological evaluations, cognitive assessment, parent-child interactionals, competency evaluations, Court appointments as expert witness, and other referral questions. Client base includes individuals involved with the Department of Human Services, corrections, community corrections, probation, and public/private attorneys. Extensive
experience in providing court testimony. All of the above services are also offered in Spanish. Mental health services include therapeutic interventions offered in individual, couples, family or group format. Psychological services are provided to address a variety of referral questions in both English and Spanish speaking populations. Child Family Investigator: trained as defined in Chief Justice Directive 04-08. Sex offense specific evaluations, offense specific treatment, and related services are performed under the supervision of a Colorado Sex Offender Management Board certified and state licensed psychologist. Treatment and evaluation protocols adhere to the guidelines and standards of the CSOMB. 4/97-10/97 Outpatient Bilingual Therapist- Boulder County Mental Health Center Responsibilities included outpatient mental health services to adults, children, families, and geriatric clients of a community mental health center. Employed a brief therapy, solution focused approach. Therapeutic format included individual, group, family, and couples. Case management, client advocacy, and collaboration within a multi-agency system including schools, social service agencies, and medical institutions were regularly performed. 10/95-10/96 Rehabilitation Psychology Post-doctoral Fellowship University of Colorado Health Sciences Center University Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (1900 Hours supervised clinical experience) Primary responsibilities included overseeing and providing cognitive evaluations, brief neuropsychological assessment, and psychological/behavioral medicine services to a 14 bed, multidisciplinary acute medical rehabilitation unit. In addition, behavioral medicine, cognitive and mental status evaluation consultation services were performed on various acute medical units throughout the hospital including neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, neuro-oncology, trauma, orthopedics, burn clinic, and transplant services. Supervision of doctoral level students and psychology interns was formally conducted. 8/94-8/95 Clinical Psychology Intern Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, San Antonio Texas (1900 Hours of Supervised Clinical Experience) Full APA accredited internship program. Training year meets Division 40 guidelines for pre-doctoral training in neuropsychology. General duties included long-term and short term individual therapy with outpatients from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, and short term therapy with inpatients on the psychiatry ward, spinal chord injury ward, and outpatient substance abuse programs. Neuropsychological, personality and intellectual
assessment of outpatient and inpatient adults was also regularly conducted. Patient populations included psychiatric, neurological disorders, vascular disorders, chronic pain and HIV/AIDS to name a few. Cultural and linguistic diversity was also a prominent aspect of the patient population and was regularly incorporated into the training program. Pre-Internship Clinical Experience 8/1/92-8/5/94 Adams Community Corrections Program 1100 Hrs. -Licensed Psychologist supervised Provided individual long and short term therapy, group therapy and psychodiagnostic assessment services to both residents and nonresidents of a community corrections program. Vocational rehabilitation assessment services were also administered as necessary. Referrals ranged from post maximum security Department of Corrections clients, to county court sentenced clients. 8/91-9/94 University of Denver, Professional Psychology Center 400 Hrs. -Supervised by multiple Licensed Psychologists. Individual, family and couples therapy to clients with a variety of clinical problems. Forensic evaluations, custody evaluations and other assessment cases were also conducted. 11/92-3/93 Denver Police Department, Victim Assistance Unit Supervised by Licensed Psychologist On call, after hours crisis intervention services to residents of the City and County of Denver. Interventions included on scene crisis intervention and de-briefings with victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, family death, burglary, and kidnapping. 2/93-5/94 Contract Bilingual Psychological Evaluations -Private practice Social Services Disability Evaluations 306 Hrs. -Supervised by Licensed Psychologist. Psychological evaluations and neuropsychological screenings were performed to assist in determination of disability compensation. Services were conducted in Spanish or Bilingually. 4/1/92-11/1/92 Denver Victims Service Center 560 Hrs. -Supervised by Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Duties included supervision of volunteer counselors for a 24-hour hotline for victims of crime. Responsible for crisis intervention, both by telephone and in individual short-term therapy, as well as psychoeducational groups, case management, follow-up and on-call after hours pager rotations for English and Spanish speaking victims of crime hotline. 8/1/91-4/15/92 Servicios de la Raza -Adult/Family Mental Health 288 Hrs. -Supervised by Licensed Clinical Social Worker Provided short and long term therapy to individuals and families in an
agency serving primarily Hispanic and Spanish speaking clients. Intake and patient case management were also conducted. 9/90-5/91 Denver Public Schools- Special Education Bilingual Evaluation Services. 1260 Hours-Provided bilingual or monolingual (Spanish) speech and language evaluation services for the Denver School District. Services were part of a multicomponent team comprised of Psychologists, Speech/LanguageTherapists, Social Workers and Education Specialists. Report writing and student staffing services were also required. 8/90-8/91 Boulder County Mental Health Center 1000 Hrs. -Supervised by Licensed Clinical Social Worker Primary responsibilities included outreach mental health services to individuals and families in rural areas of Boulder County. Individual and family therapy was conducted with the target population consisting of Hispanic and/or Spanish speaking low SES individuals and their families. 8/1/92-8/15/93 Clinic Assistant -University of Denver, Professional Psychology Center 240 Hrs.-Intake and information referral services to prospective patients/clients at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology Clinic. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Winter 1999 Summer 1993 Summer 1991 Part-Time Faculty- Metropolitan State College of Denver Responsible for curriculum development and conducting course in Cross-Cultural Psychology. Graduate Teaching Assistant- University of Denver Cognitive Assessment Course Responsibilities included conducting two hourly lab sections per week. Duties included instruction in proper administration and scoring of intellectual assessment tools. Boulder Valley Public Schools -Summer School ESL Teacher Responsible for a 32 student classroom of ethnically diverse beginning English speakers. Students ranged from Junior High to High School in current enrollment. Responsible for curriculum content, lesson plans and recreational activity organization for the class. REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Endorsed as an expert in various areas related to Clinical Psychology on multiple occasions in the following counties:
-Denver County -Boulder County -Arapahoe County -Jefferson County -Adams County -Weld County Specific areas of assessment and clinical knowledge in the above cases have been related to cases involving but not limited to psychological assessment, competency, mitigating circumstances, mental health issues, dependency and neglect cases, and parenting issues. Retained by defense and prosecuting attorneys/district attorney, county attorney, or at the request of The Court. Culturally and linguistically competent in issues related to Spanish speaking populations.