Collect and analyse data such as physical measurements, activity, self-report, interview assessments, food intake. Conduct and score the SCID, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 disorders, for over 51 participants spanning across 8 studies including 6 drug and alcohol or polydrug trials.

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Summary

PhD Candidate

Versatile and results-driven professional with growing expertise in clinical research, analysis, and reporting. Passionate about advocating for clients/patients and promoting quality services, health, wellbeing, and positive outcomes utilizing evidence-based methodologies and interdepartmental collaboration. Exceptional researcher with a proven record of accurate data compilation, analysis, and synthesis. Articulate communicator and champion of cross-functional teams.

Core Competencies

•  Clinical Psychology Leadership

•  Full Life Cycle Project Management

•  Cross-Functional Team Leadership

•  Time Management & Prioritization

•  Laboratory Operations & Procedures

•  Documentation / Records / Reporting

 •  Clinical Research & Analysis

•  Clinical Interviewing Methods

•  Strategic Planning & Execution

•  Evidence Based Methodologies

•  Interdisciplinary Collaboration

•  Data & Information Management

 •  Underrepresented People Groups

•  Diversity & Socioeconomic Factors

•  Client Advocacy & Patient Services

•  Cross-Cultural & Global Experiences

•  Community Outreach & Engagement

•  Research Study Design & Coordination

 

  Career Experience  
   

YALE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE – New Haven, CT                                                                                              2021 – Present

Clinical Research Assistant & Post-Graduate Research Associate, Yale Stress Center

Conduct participant-facing human subjects research for two NHI funded studies at the Yale Stress Center, one being a randomized control trial looking at the effects of the drug Semaglutide on stress and craving for highly palatable foods in an obese population, and the other on the effects of mindfulness in reducing stress in parents of young children

  • Guide participants through each study from start to finish, including screening, intake, cognitive assessments, clinical and physical assessments, biological specimen collection, and all study logistics
  • Collect and analyse data such as physical measurements, activity, self-report, interview assessments, food intake.
  • Manage inventory of biological specimens for both studies, the drug trial being a lab heavy study that contains a total of 7 labs spanning up to 4 months all involving 7 hormones collected across 177 samples in total. The parenting study is a 2-year longitudinal study of over 200 participants.
  • Conduct and score the SCID, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 disorders, for over 51 participants spanning across 8 studies including 6 drug and alcohol or polydrug trials.
  • Conduct Imagery Scripts sessions for inducing craving, stress and neutral states in alcohol use disorder/ substance use disorder populations. Have currently written over 25 set of scripts for a total of 75 lab imagery sessions.
  • Coordinated, planned, and conducted a two-day Script Imagery Development training session for 13 participants from across labs and vocations.

UNIVERSITY OF BATH – Bath, UK                                                                                                                               2019 – 2021

Student Ambassador

Served as a postgraduate student ambassador, driving campus outreach and execution of events to support over 97 current and prospective students. Leveraged exceptional communications, empathy, EQ, and psychology background to respond to resistance and/or issues from students.

  • Planned, coordinated, and executed “Virtual Open Day,” spearheading live chats with 2K+ prospective students.
    • Streamlined interdepartmental collaboration with more than 500 faculty and students.
  • Trusted resource on cross-cultural and global assimilation to the campus and to the U.S.
  • Guided over 20 Psychology undergrads during network events by providing program insights.

 

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY – Leicester, UK         2017 – 2019

Course Representative (2018 – 2019)

Selected to represent the entire Psychology cohort of # students.

  • Served as liaison between the administration and students, mediating key student matters, highlighting persistent issues, supporting monthly meetings as a minute taker, and acknowledging successful student initiatives.
  • Drafted all three reports, memorandums, and letters, emphasizing accurate and concise information collected during meetings during the university year.

Research Assistant (2017 – 2018)

Administered quality research support, planning, and delivery as outlined by professors and departmental guidelines.

  • One of 4 research assistants managing data collection and experimental execution for a project under the working title, “The Illusion of Transparency: Egocentrism and Online Communication” in a time-sensitive environment.
    • Recruited 12 participants, instructing on procedures, study specifics and consenting.
    • Compiled and analyzed data, debriefed participants, and facilitated training.
    • Highlighted key skills in data records and retrieval in both paper and digital formats.
    • Completed data collection 3 months ahead of schedule.
  • Established expertise on IBM SPSS utilization for statistical data analyses.

 

  Community Leadership  
   

Volunteer Teaching Assistant, APNA SCHOOL – Bhopal, India (8/2018 – 10/2018)

Drove student learning and goal achievement by preparing engaging curriculum, lesson plans, and experiential learning opportunities for students with low socioeconomic backgrounds or children of migrant workers. Divided classroom activities across different age groups in a school with limited classrooms or shared facilities. Researched and planned field trips to local museums, as well as dance classes during recess hours.

  • Instructed and inspired over 23 students across 3 months.
  • Directed 20 students in dance classes that delivered a performance to faculty during the Republic Day celebration.
  • Positioned 2 students to receive scholarships to attend private schools, a substantial accomplishment, as private schools across India have significantly greater resources than government-funded schools.
    • Communicated effectively to overcome lack of familial support spanning diverse emotional, social, cultural, and financial barriers. Navigated complex relationship issues between family members and provided active listening and intervention upon disclosures of abuse and trauma.

 

  Submitted Publications  
   
  1. Haeny; A.Chowdhary; A.King; J. O’Malley; S.S.; & R. Sinha. A Thematic Analysis of Stress, Alcohol and Drug-Cue, and Neutral/Relaxing Events to Inform Approaches for Improving Treatment Among Black Adults with Substance Use Disorder. ##-##, Drugs and Alcohol Dependence, 20.
  Education & Training  
   

Master of Science, Applied Psychology, University of Bath – Bath, UK

Bachelor of Science, Psychology, De Montfort University – Leicester, UK

 

  Technical Proficiencies  
   

SCID & MINI Diagnostic Tools • IBM SPSS • Imagery Script Development • Centrifuge Machines • Qualtrics • RedCap

  Language Proficiencies  
   

English (Fluent) • Hindi (Fluent) • Urdu (Intermediate)

Provide a 300 word reflection about how you think social forces affect the behavior you have decided you would like to change.

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Social forces

Provide a 300 word reflection about how you think social forces affect the behavior you have decided you would like to change. Your reflection should can include any social aspects you want to focus on, including, but not limited to family, friends, organizations/clubs (e.g., church groups, fraternities or sororities, campus groups), and work relationships.

 

Create a brief dialogue between a client and therapist demonstrating the 3 therapeutic conditions espoused by Rogers: genuineness or congruence, unconditional positive regard, and accurate empathic understanding.

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Psych Questions – Assignment 7

Instructions
(1) Create a brief dialogue between a client and therapist demonstrating the 3 therapeutic conditions espoused by Rogers: genuineness or congruence, unconditional positive regard (acceptance, caring, prizing), and accurate empathic understanding.
(2) Briefly define one of the techniques from Gestalt therapy and how it can be utilized in a session.

Write a critical review essay evaluating current scientific evidence addressing this question: Are these types of explicit long-term memory fully dissociable?

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The episodic and semantic distinction

Write a critical review essay evaluating current scientific evidence addressing this question: Are these types of explicit long-term memory fully dissociable?

In your practical session for ‘Topic 1: Can you trust your memories?’ we focused on Autobiographical Memory. You investigated your own and others’ autobiographical memories for different time periods, you completed a scale examining different styles of remembering and you took part in some tests of episodic memory, which relies on the episodic system that you learnt about in the lecture and that researchers believe underlies our ability to remember personally experienced events from our lives.

Through these learning experiences you will have seen that that although we learn that these types of memory are separable and dissociable systems, there are perhaps more interactions between episodic and semantic memory in our autobiographical memory than we might think. For example, we scaffold our memory for personal events (episodic memory) with personal-related semantic information (e.g. names of our friends, or of the town we were brought up in) – known as ‘personal semantics’.

For your coursework on this topic we would like you to answer the question above by considering recent interpretations of the interaction and dissociations between EPISODIC and SEMANTIC memory. We would like you to consider evidence related to how these memories are encoded, stored and retrieved. You will need to consider neuroscientific evidence; this can include functional neuroimaging, EEG and research with neurological patients.

Your essay is to take the format of a critical review article aimed at an intelligent audience with scientific knowledge but no expertise in memory. In order to critically review you should start by reading some of the review articles referenced below, but you then must read the original experimental work these review articles are based on, so that you can evaluate the strength of the evidence. Some experimental papers on this topic are also listed below but you are also expected to find your own as you complete searches on Pubmed/ PsycInfo and as you read the review articles.

What are the priorities/most pressing issues you would focus on with the client? How would you address any differences between what you see as the priorities and what the client identifies?

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Case Management

Students will be randomly divided into groups and assigned a case scenario.
Each group will review and discuss their assigned scenario, and after taking into consideration the information recently learned about Case Management and other in-class lectures, answer the following questions:
1) What are the priorities/most pressing issues you would focus on with the client?
2) How would you address any differences between what you see as the priorities and what the client identifies?
3) Where and how would you access additional information regarding the client’s situation and needs?
4) What types of resources might you connect the client with? i.e. housing, finances, etc.
5) What challenges/obstacles, if any, would you anticipate in working with the client?

The group will prepare and submit one document, using question/answer format.
All members of the group will actively contribute to the discussion and preparation of the written responses.
The group may refer to the PowerPoint Presentation on Case Management, the discussion with the guest speaker and/or additional resources you may be aware of. Further research is not required or expected to complete this assignment, but some students may have additional experience and/or knowledge to draw upon.

*No groups will be negatively impacted should they not have additional experience/knowledge to draw upon.

Here is the requirement for advanced mark
Advanced (4)
Uses appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject and highly developed clinical reasoning
Has deep understanding of roles of MH professionals, barriers to services for clients and has good knowledge of referral resource system

Demonstrates significant familiarity with and understanding of assessment processes for specific risks as per case/scenario
Consistently uses appropriate grammar, syntax and vocabulary
Uses flowing and logical structure to communicate data, issue and analysis; communication is short and to the point

Demonstrates a thorough understanding of context, audience, and purpose that is responsive to the assigned task
Consistently uses appropriate professional language and terminology; uses APA style correctly and consistently; adapts professional communication to the recipient
Consistently uses appropriate professional language and terminology; adapts professional communication to the recipient
Consistently arrives on time and leaves Program activities according to specified Program hours; completes and submits all Program tasks, readings and assignments in a timely manner

Put what you read into your own words; however, the ideas and information are still always cited.

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Paraphrasing: Putting It Into Your Own Words

Put what you read into your own words; however, the ideas and information are still always cited.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review the following:
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/evidence/paraphrase/effective#s-lg-box-2832443

• Select a peer reviewed social psychology article to paraphrase from the following.
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library

Assignment (1 page):
• Copy a paragraph from the article you chose with a reference to your article.

• Next, using the paraphrasing link provided above for paraphrasing guidance, paraphrase the paragraph.

How does that cultural system affect your friend’s way of life, interactions, aspirations, and openness to issues of faith?

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Cultural Systems

In this section, you should choose at least 4 of the 6 cultural systems from Chapter 4 of Leading with Cultural Intelligence. Discuss each cultural system and identify which of the pair apply most directly to the culture of your friend (For example: Does your friend’s culture have a nuclear or kinship family system?).

How does that cultural system affect your friend’s way of life, interactions, aspirations, and openness to issues of faith?

Aside from interviewing your friend and referencing the course text book, you should include research from at least 1 outside source to support your arguments.

 

Research 2 different organizations related to a specific client concern and presenting information to the larger class, thus increasing familiarity with numerous types of mental health services/programs

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Case study for finding the appropriate agency

Scenario#10

Zahra is a 28-year old married woman with a ten-month old infant son.  She has been married to her husband, Majid, for six years and describes having a loving and supportive relationship. Zahra is currently on maternity leave and Majid is employed full-time in Finance.  The couple is originally from Iran and has been in Canada for three years; they are Permanent Residents.  They have no family members in Ontario, but Zahra’s sister lives in Chicago and Majid’s family lives in Montreal.  This is the couple’s first baby.

Zahra has been coming to your Community Health Centre since her son’s birth for newborn medical care and has been attending a mother-baby group for the past three months.  She has missed the past four group sessions and today you observe that Zahra has a flat affect and is not actively engaging with her baby or the other group members, which is different than how she has presented in the past.

In talking with her, Zahra discloses experiencing the following symptoms for the past four weeks: increased difficulty concentrating and sleeping, low energy, feelings of being a bad mother, low appetite, and while she has been caring for the baby, she is lacking feelings of attachment. Zahra is ashamed of this and has not told anyone how she is feeling.  Zahra has a history of depression, which she experienced for approximately two years when she first arrived in Canada.   She was on medication for about one year but has been off this for the past four years.  She also met with a settlement counsellor at the time and found this helpful.

Identified concern: Post-partum depression

What mental health agencies would you recommend for Zahra?

 

This is a group assignment, with some individual components.

Mental health services in Ontario are most often provided through government funded organizations, which offer a range of programs geared towards particular client populations and/or needs.  These may be related to domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health diagnoses or criminal involvement and may be provided through individual, couple, family or group counselling/support.  Some organizations focus specifically on one issue, while others offer multiple programs for a range of issues.  As mental health practitioners, it is important for us to have a good understanding of the resources available in our community to refer clients to appropriate services as needed.

This assignment requires groups to research four (4) different organizations related to a specific client concern and presenting information to the larger class, thus increasing familiarity with numerous types of mental health services/programs

 

  1. Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital offers a community mental health program-prenatal mental health programs:

after baby program:  eight week program for parents suffering mood changes after the birth of a baby. Meet other new parents experiencing mood changes. Discuss relationships and difficult emotions, learn coping strategies and how to take care of yourself . Facilitated by a Mental Health professional. Child monitoring available for walking children (toddlers), parents may bring babies in arms.
Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital

 

After baby program-

Program that facilitates support for parents after the birth of a child.

 

Services available:

• connect with others experiencing similar patterns of mood changes

• open discussion for relationships, newly acquired emotions, and personal care

• opportunity to build coping skill

 

Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital

Site: Barrie – EarlyON Child and Family Centre

Service: After Baby Group

Eligibility

Parents suffering from mood changes after the birth of their baby.

Early on program

A program for parents suffering from mood changes after the birth of a baby. Meet other new parents experiencing mood changes. Discuss relationships and difficult emotions, learn coping strategies and how to take care of yourself. Facilitated by a Mental Health professional

  • Make personal connections and access a network of resources
  • Find supports
  • Get advice
  • Attend drop-in programs, storytelling, sing-alongs, games and many more activities

If Zahra’s condition deteriorate, the program at their mental health department provide crisis intervention services for acute psychological distress-very efficient, quick response for assessment, short term follow up Will referal to mental health community service for long term care

This service provides out-patient consultation and follow-up to those individuals experiencing an acute or persistent psychiatric illness. Our Psychiatrists and Counselors provide assessment, treatment and ongoing supportive counselling.

Out-Patient Counseling Service Provides:

  • Short-term solution-focused and problem-solving intervention to clients requiring individual assistance in the resolution of difficulties stemming from their mental illness
  • Referral to community services

Community Mental Health Service

The Community Mental Health Program provides services for individuals who need longer term treatment and support that extends beyond an acute illness.

Community Mental Health Clinic

  • All new referrals are vetted through an intake system where eligibility and appropriateness for service is determined. Referral to other resources in the community may be a part of the intake process.
  • Treatment plans for eligible persons may include health education, counselling, and support for people who have a serious mental illness.

 

Does media violence cause violent behavior?

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Media violence

Does media violence cause violent behavior?

Write a 2000-word research paper on a specific social psychology topic. State your thesis and rationale, which should explain what direction current and future research should take.

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Social psychology topic

For this assignment, you will write a 2000-word research paper on a specific social psychology topic.
The goal of this assignment is for you to present and critique past and current research in social psychology. You’ll choose and evaluate at least three separate experiments and then propose and justify future areas of study for the field, discussing sections.

Introduction: state your thesis and rationale, which should explain what direction current and future research should take
Review of relevant literature: summarize, evaluate, and connect at least three previous experiments on this topic (including the one named in your prompt of choice)
Current research: explain what, if any, research is currently being done on this topic and analyze its validity and potential implications
Future areas of study: present at least two ideas for further research into the topic and discuss how these studies would contribute to the principles of social psychology
References list in APA format. A majority of your sources should be from the last 20 years.