Danielle Scott, Ph.D.

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width="215" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#080000" background="05f0ce82egerdp.png"><br></td> <td valign="top" colspan="2" height="95" bgcolor="#CC99CC" text="#080000" background="05e265f1ezuady.png"> <div> <font size="5" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dominion Behavioral Healthcare of Chesterfield</b></font> <b> </b> <b></b><b>|   </b><a href="index.htm" target="_top" title="Dominion Behavioral Healthcare of Cheste"><u><b>home</b></u></a> </div> <div> <a href="id20.htm" target="_top" title="Clinicians"><u>Clinicians</u></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="385" colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#080000"> <div> <i>Danielle Scott, Ph.D.</i> </div><br> <div> Dr. Danielle Scott is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2005, and her Masters of Education in School Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2001.  While attending UVA, Dr. Scott also completed additional training in the areas of Early Childhood Development and Special Education.  Dr. Scott earned her undergraduate degree in Developmental Psychology from Duke University.  While attending Duke, she also completed specialized coursework in the area of early childhood education.  Dr. Scott's educational history also includes post-baccalaureate coursework in special education at Elon University, which focused on the assessment and education of children with learning disabilities. </div><br> <div> Dr. Scott has worked in a variety of settings with her most recent clinical experiences including working as a school psychologist.  She completed her clinical internship at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, which is a part of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the VCU Medical Center.  As an intern, Dr. Scott provided individual and family services to children and adolescents in the day treatment, residential, and acute care settings.  Dr. Scott also provided individual and family services as an intern on the Child and Adolescent Services Team at Chesterfield Mental Health.  Dr. Scott is a published author in the areas of multicultural education, teacher education, and special education.  Her research has also included examining the coexisting relationship between reading disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders. </div><br> <div> Dr. Scott's background as a special education teacher, school psychologist, and clinical psychologist have allowed her to develop specialized interests and experiences in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a variety of child and adolescent disorders.  She is most interested in the assessment and treatment of ADHD (i.e., Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and Learning Disabilities, but Dr. Scott also has experience in the treatment of childhood and adolescent depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorders.  Dr. Scott's specialized training in early childhood assessment and intervention has also given her the opportunity to treat children as young as four and five years old. </div><br> <div> Dr. Scott believes that a child is part of a larger evolving family system that contributes to the development and maintenance of many disorders.  She often uses a family systems perspective in the development of her treatment plans, and Dr. Scott incorporates a combination of many therapies.  These approaches include play therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic techniques, and structural family therapy. </div><br> <div> Dr. Scott is an advocate of “empowered parents” and devotes much of her time to developing parent training seminars and doing parent consultations.  Dr. Scott accepts appointments for individual and family therapy.  A large portion of her practice is also devoted to psychological and psycho-educational evaluations. </div> <div> <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=2946687; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=26; var sc_security="b5d05c06"; </script> <noscript> <div class="statcounter"></div></noscript> </div><br> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </body>