Sarah Fischer, PhD
Sarah graduated from the UNL Clinical Psychology Training Program in 2021. Prior to her time at UNL, she graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2014 with a BS in psychology, with a concentration in neuroscience and a minor in German. While an undergraduate, and for one year after graduating, she worked as a Research Assistant at Indiana University in the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Center (with Dr. William Hetrick) and in the Training Research and Implementation in Psychology lab (with Dr. Cara Lewis). Sarah’s research and clinical placements during her time at UNL have included a research placement at Disability Rights Nebraska, a research placement at the DHHS Department of Behavioral Health, a clinical placement through OUR Homes, and a clinical and research placement at Integrated Behavioral Health Services.
During her time at UNL, her research focus was on the implementation of recovery-oriented programming for Serious Mental Illness. Sarah’s dissertation work can be found here: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychdiss/121/
Sarah completed her internship at the VA Maryland Health Care Center and is currently completing a Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Fellowship at the Durham VA. She can be reached at sarah.fischer.unl@gmail.com.
Book Chapters
Fischer, S., Norton, P. J., Spaulding, W., & Courtney, J. A. (2020). Assessing adults (pp. 91-114). In D. W. Nangle, C. A. Erdley, R. Schwartz-Mette (Eds.), Social Skills Across the Life Span: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Publications
Fischer, Sarah, Spaulding, William. (in preparation). Examining the Relationship between Self-Reported Impulsiveness and Schizotypal Personality Traits.
Lewis, C.C., Fischer, S.M., Weiner, B. J., Stanick, C., Kim, M., Martinez, R. (2015). Outcomes for implementation science: an enhanced systematic review of instruments using evidence-based rating criteria. Implementation Science, 10(1), 155.
Lewis, C. C., Weiner, B. J., Stanick, C., & Fischer, S. M. (2015). Advancing implementation science through measure development and evaluation: a study protocol. Implementation Science, 10(1), 102.
Posters and Presentations
Fischer, Sarah; Hoffman, Grace; Spaulding, William. 2019. “Relationship between Health Care Engagement and Attenuated Symptoms of Psychosis in the High-Risk for Psychosis Population: Preliminary Findings.” Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Conference, Buffalo, NY. September 19, 2019.
Fischer, Sarah; Spaulding, William. 2017. “Relationship between Schizotypal Traits and Impulsiveness.” Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Conference, Denver, CO. October 14-17, 2017.
Fischer, Sarah; Spaulding, William. 2016. “Schizotypal Traits and Impulsivity.” Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2, 2016.
Fischer, Sarah; Mitroi, Jessica; Shin, Yong-Wook; O’Donnell, Brian F.; Block, Hannah J.; Hetrick, William P. 2014. “Prism Adaptation and Schizotypal Personality Traits.” Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Conference, Evanston, IN, September 18-September 21, 2014.
Fischer, Sarah. 2014. “Prism Adaptation and Personality.” Poster presented at the Indiana University Honors Thesis Symposium, Bloomington, IN, April 25, 2014.