Amanda Zold, PhD

Biography

Amanda Zold, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Founding Director of the Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center Co-Occurring Disorders and Affective Disorders Stepped Care Programs. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with primary clinical interest in treatment delivery and innovation to expand evidence-based care for adults with severe mental illnesses and co-occurring substance use disorders. In addition to directing the Co-Occurring and Affective Disorders Stepped Care Programs, she serves as the lead psychologist on the Dual-Diagnosis Specialty Inpatient Unit. In this role she oversees quality improvement initiatives and implementation of group based integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for co-occurring disorders. Zold also provides clinical supervision and training to psychology pre-doctoral interns, psychiatry residents and practicum students rotating with the Psychology Service.

Zold earned her doctorate degree in Clinical-Community Psychology at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, AZ in the serious mental illness track and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital at the Schizophrenia Rehabilitation Program and Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital.