Dr. Jennifer Crotogino
Children's Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre
800 Commissioners Road East
London, ON N6A 5W9
Telephone: (519) 685-8500, ext. 52533
Email: jennifer.crotogino@lhsc.on.ca
Clinical interests: In the Paediatric Psychology Outpatient Service, I see children and youth who have a wide range of medical conditions, to assess and treat psychological and/or behavioural concerns that can interact physical health and illness.
Assessment is framed in a biopsychosocial, developmentally informed and family centered approach. Interventions are individualized for the referring issue, age/developmental level and treatment goals.
Opportunities for participating in interdisciplinary care may be available for referrals from the Paediatric Diabetes Clinic and the Healthy Weight Management Clinic.
Topics for workshops, seminars: Paediatric psychology
Type of clinical practica: Advanced intervention
Types of clients: Child; Adolescent (Ages 0-18). Opportunities for exposure to early childhood/pre-school may be available, but are less common.
Modality: Individual; Group; Family
Theoretical orientation: Cognitive-behavioural; Behavioural; ACT/Mindfulness
Types of client problems: Common referral issues include adjustment and coping with illness, procedural anxiety, difficulties with adherence to treatment and treatment burn-out, as well as identifying and addressing comorbidities such as anxiety, depression, and somatic symptom disorders in the context of illness. Referrals also include providing psychological interventions for medical conditions that are known to benefit from mind-body approaches (e.g. headache disorders, encopresis, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity).
Type of supervision you can provide: Student describes case; Co-therapy/co-interview; Observe student live
Recent students:
Current students:
Clinical mentor: Available
Research interests: Developing and evaluating group treatments for common referral issues.
Available to supervise: Yes
Constraints: Available for Winter 2025.
Last updated: May 24, 2024
