{"id":14976,"date":"2024-08-13T11:43:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=14976"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:41:20","slug":"kelly-caravella-phd","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/people\/kelly-caravella-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Caravella, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Dr. Kelly Caravella earned her PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Caravella completed her internship and clinical postdoctoral training at UNC at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, specializing in intellectual and developmental disabilities. She followed up her clinical postdoctoral training, as a postdoctoral fellow in the CIDD\u2019s T32 Postdoctoral Research Training Program. 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