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Jeremy Chiles, Ph.D. Dr. Jeremy Chiles is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked with Psychological Testing Services since 2002. His training in personality, cognitive, achievement, and psychosexual testing is utilized in helping children, adolescents, adults, and families specify problems and concerns that will allow for them to identify the most appropriate level of care or most suitable academic environment for them to address areas of difficulty. In helping individuals and families work toward psychological health and balance in their lives, Dr. Chiles employs strategies including psychological testing/assessment, comprehensive interviews with students and parents, consultation with clinicians, close interaction with educational consultants, and “on-site” testing to gather the most accurate and useful information in a timely manner. Dr. Chiles attended the University of Utah where he received his bachelor’s degree with a major in psychology and a minor in history. He attended Brigham Young University where he received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology. While providing a strong psychotherapy training program, the training at Brigham Young University also offered an assessment curriculum that addressed intellectual/cognitive and mental health/personality aspects in children, adolescents, and adults. Additional training during graduate school involved assessments of adolescents and adults at the Utah State Hospital, Utah State Prison, residential treatment centers, outpatient treatment settings, acute care facilities. As part of the clinical psychology program at Brigham Young University, Dr. Chiles served an internship at the Hamilton Center, Inc. in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Hamilton Center is a large community mental health center that serves a large portion of western Indiana. A focus on internship was continuing to refine skills in assessment and psychotherapy while working with a variety of disadvantaged children and adolescents with emotional, cognitive, and developmental deficits. After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Chiles returned to Utah where he took a position on Valley Mental Health’s outpatient treatment team. He specifically worked with child and adolescent victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse. Dr. Chiles also worked part time for an agency contracted to conduct psychosexual evaluations on adult sex offenders. It was through working with persons of many varying ages, that Dr. Chiles developed skills in assessing sexual perpetration issues and performing “risk assessments” on individuals who had a history of sexual offenses or who exhibited potentially dangerous behaviors. Dr. Chiles then worked for Davis Behavioral Health where he continued to provide assessment and psychotherapy services to adolescents and families. He was the team leader for assessment and treatment of sexually acting out children and adolescents. It was in this role, that Dr. Chiles participated in the NOJOS training and weekly meetings. In 2002, Dr. Chiles began working with Psychological Testing Services. Since that time, he has performed assessments in wilderness programs, residential treatment centers, boarding schools, and hospitals around the country, but most concentrated in the western United States. He performs psychological assessments for children with a range of problems including developmental delays, cognitive deficits, learning disabilities, substance use problems, and mental illness. Dr. Chiles is a member of the Utah Psychological Association and American Psychological Association. Dr. Chiles is known among wilderness and therapeutic programs as a thorough, empathic, energetic, and personable clinician. His passion is working with adolescents and their families, and he finds it rewarding to work with programs and personnel that are equally skilled and passionate about their work. Dr. Chiles has a wife and three children in Utah who he adores. Although work takes him away from them, often more than he would like, he is always excited to return home to face the never ending challenges of being a father and husband. |
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