Melissa Hunter, PhD
Melissa Hunter, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Munroe-Meyer Institute and a licensed psychologist in MMI's Department of Psychology. Hunter received her doctorate in school psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi, completed her internship at the Munroe-Meyer Institute and her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Child Study Center.
Hunter practiced as a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania for 15 years, providing outpatient child psychological and behavioral health services and school-based consultation for children and adults with a wide range of presenting needs. She also served as adjunct or teaching faculty at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and taught at Pennsylvania State University for nine years, where she was an associate teaching professor of psychology. Currently, Hunter provides behavioral school-based consultation to the Madonna School, a private school for children and adults with developmental disabilities. In addition, she engages in clinical activities at the Munroe-Meyer Institute. In both settings, Hunter supervises pre-doctoral psychology interns, post-doctoral fellows and undergraduate psychology students.
- PhD: University of Southern Mississippi, 2005.
- MA: University of Southern Mississippi, 2003.
- BA: University of Central Arkansas, 1999.
Specialty Certifications
- Licensed Psychologist, State of Nebraska.
Hunter provides patient care services at the UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Psychology.
Clinic Locations
- Munroe-Meyer Institute
- School-based.
Recent Publication
- Hunter, S.T. & Hunter, M.D. (2022). Career development, retention, and performance management considerations. In Bruyere and Colella (Eds.) SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series: Neurodiversity in the Workplace.
- Independent study in psychology.
- Senior seminar in psychology.
- Abnormal psychology.
- Psychological Interventions in childhood.
- Child psychopathology.
- Adolescent psychology.
- Honors thesis in psychology.
- Introduction to clinical psychology.
- Developmental psychology.
- The science and profession of psychology.
- Developmental problems in childhood and adolescence.
- Elements of psychology.
- Family values and preferences in the treatment process.
- Interventions for adults with autism spectrum disorder.
- Group therapy approaches for childhood psychological disorders.
- School-based mental health and consultation.
- Psychology Professor of the Year, Psi Chi Honors Society, Penn State University, 2018.
- American Psychological Association.
- National Association of School Psychologists.
- Society for Pediatric Psychology (American Psychological Association Division 54).
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Munroe-Meyer Institute
985450 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5450
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