FSH Internship Faculty & Training Committee Members

Core Faculty

Niels C. Beck, Ph.D. (St. Louis University, 1977)
Dr. Beck is the Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. He also consults 20 hours per week at FSH in Substance Abuse Treatment and on the Program Evaluation and Research Services team. Dr. Beck's research interests include rehabilitation of chronic mental patients, assessment and treatment of violent behavior in chronic mental patients, and pharmacological/psychosocial treatment interactions for persons with chronic mental disorders.

J. Edd Bucklew, Ph.D. (University of Missouri-Kansas, 1987)
Dr. Bucklew is Program Coordinator of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program in Biggs Forensic Center. His clinical and research interests include program development, program evaluation, and treatment of seriously mentally ill clients and dual diagnosis adults in correctional and forensic settings.

James Coleman, Ph.D. (University of Houston, 2002)
Dr. Coleman is the Program Coordinator for Hearnes Psychiatric Center. With this position, he oversees the New Outlook, Social Learning, and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs in the HPC, the Hope Center, and our open campus. Dr. Coleman also recently completed a federally funded grant project aimed at reducing aggressive incidents and associated injuries at the hospital, developing alternatives to the use of seclusion and restraint interventions, and enhancing the hospital's "culture of recovery" treatment philosophy. Dr. Coleman’s clinical interests include the assessment and treatment of severe behavioral and emotional disorders and his research interests include the assessment and treatment of aggressive behavior in inpatient settings, and the development and evaluation of unit-wide psychosocial programs.

Ericia L. Kempker, Psy.D. (Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, 2004)
Dr. Kempker is a Certified Forensic Examiner at Fulton State Hospital. With this position, she completes court ordered evaluations of criminal defendants for the Department of Mental Health including, but not limited to Competency to Stand Trial, Criminal Responsibility, Sexually Violent Predator, Diminished Capacity, and Battered Spouse Syndrome evaluations. Her clinical and research interests include malingering and deception in forensic settings, risk assessment, sexual offending behaviors, and the assessment and treatment of adolescents and adults with sexual offending behaviors.

Jeffrey S. Kline, Ph.D. (Indiana State University – Terre Haute Indiana, 1996)
Dr. Kline is also a Certified Forensic Examiner at Fulton State Hospital who performs court ordered evaluations of criminal defendants. He also serves as a Psychology Supervisor in Biggs Forensic Center and participates in the hospital’s Forensic Review Committee. His clinical and research interests include the forensic evaluation of competence, responsibility, diminished capacity, and risk assessment; assessment and intervention in acute care settings; deception and malingering in forensic and clinical contexts; personality disorders; and assessment of psychopathology.

Marc C. Maddox, Ph.D. (University of Missouri – Columbia, 1984)
Dr. Maddox is the Chief Psychologist at Fulton State Hospital as well as Forensic Coordinator for the hospital. He has offered his clinical services and supervisory skills to Fulton State Hospital for over 20 years. Also at the hospital, Dr. Maddox serves on several committees including the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing team, the Forensic Review Committee, Facility Executive Team, and the Strategic Planning/Focus on Safety. Finally, Dr. Maddox’s clinical and research interests include the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders.

Eric Martin, Ph.D. (University of Missouri-Columbia, 1995)
Dr. Martin is a team leader for the Social Learning Program as well as a Psychology Supervisor for the Biggs Forensic Center. His clinical and research interests include evidence-based approaches to treatment of serious mental illness, particularly schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Anthony A. Menditto, Ph.D. (University of Houston, 1988)
Dr. Menditto is the Director of Treatment Services for Fulton State Hospital. He has also offered his clinical services and supervisory skills to Fulton State Hospital for over 20 years. Dr. Menditto serves on many hospital committees including, Treatment Council, Facility Executive Team, Facility Operations Team, Treatment, Organization, and Development, Strategic Planning, Transformation Work Group, Evidence Based Practices Implementation, and Treatment Rehab Taskforce. His clinical and research interests center on development, implementation, and evaluation of psychosocial treatment and rehabilitation services for individuals with severe and persistent mental disorders.

Sharon B. Robbins, Ph.D. (Louisiana Tech University, 2005)
Dr. Robbins is the Program Coordinator for the New Outlook Program for Behavior and Mood Self-Management in the Guhleman Forensic Center. Dr. Robbins has made numerous conference presentations regarding the treatment of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities that also have a co-existing mental illness. Dr. Robbins and Dr. Stinson recently presented a paper at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association in Boston (August, 2008). This presentation included data gathered about functional assessment of sex offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Finally, Dr. Robbins' research interest include mental health treatment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, sex offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities, treatment of personality disorders, and treatment for complex behavioral disorders.

Jill Stinson, Ph.D. (University of Arizona, 2006)
Dr. Stinson is the Sex Offender Treatment Coordinator at Fulton State Hospital. She is involved with sex offender treatment, training, supervision, and research. Her primary clinical and research interests include the etiology and treatment of sexual deviance, problematic sexual behaviors in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the development and implementation of manualized treatment for sexual offenders. Dr. Stinson’s recent publications include Sex offending: Causal theories to inform research, prevention, and treatment (APA, 2008), as well as peer-reviewed studies in Violence and Victims, the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, and the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Dr. Stinson serves as a supervisor on the Sex offender treatment rotation as well as the New Outlook rotation.

Randy L. Telander, Ph.D. (University of North Dakota, 2004)
Dr. Telander is a Certified Forensic Examiner who also completes Competency to Stand Trial, Responsibility, and Sexually Violent Predator evaluations for the Department of Mental Health. His professional interests in addition to forensic evaluations include aspects of group treatment for offenders and working with personality disorders particularly psychopathy.

Bryan Zolnikov, Ph.D. (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2007)
Dr. Zolnikov is Acting Program Coordinator on the Social-Learning Program (SLP) in the Guhleman Unit. His primary clinical and research interests include serious mental illness (SMI), objective outcomes from the SLP program, phenomenological approaches to understanding the experience of SMI and rehabilitation, the recovery model, and investigating reward and attentional processing with functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Adjunct Faculty

Debora Bell, Ph.D. (West Virginia University, 1989)
Dr. Bell is the Associate Chair of Clinical Science in the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Psychological Sciences. She directs both the graduate clinical training program and the Psychological Services Clinic. Dr. Bell’s primary research interests are in child psychopathology, particularly social-cognitive aspects of children’s anxiety and depression.

Jeremy Skinner, Ph.D. (State University of New York, Buffalo, 1991)
Dr. Skinner is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Psychological Sciences. His activities include teaching, clinical supervision, clinic administration and direct service.  He carries several DBT clients himself, provides supervision to other DBT clinicians and participates on the consultation team.

Tim Trull, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, 1988)
Dr. Trull is a Professor in the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Psychological Sciences. His research interests are in the areas of diagnosis and classification of mental disorders, personality disorders (particularly borderline personality disorder), substance use disorders, psychometrics and clinical assessment, and the relationship between personality and psychopathology. Dr. Trull participates in the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program at the MU Psychological Services Clinic, supervising clinicians, participating in the consultation team, and overseeing ongoing research.

Faculty - In Training

Jennifer C. Bouwkamp, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 2008)
Dr. Bouwkamp is a psychology resident with the Social Learning Program in the Guhleman Forensic Center. Her primary professional interests include teaching and supervision issues, brain injury and trauma, rehabilitation psychology, resiliency, and clinical assessment and diagnosis.

Lee Ann Morrison, Psy.D. (Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, 2008)
Dr. Morrison is a psychology resident with the New Outlook Program in the Guhleman Forensic Center. Her primary professional interests include malingering and deception in forensic settings, assessment and treatment of sex offenders, and clinical assessment and diagnosis.