Psychology Assistant.

Conduct intakes, provide therapy to couples, families, and individuals in English and Spanish. Observe custody evaluations and participate in bi-monthly meetings to gain accreditation hours. Provide letters to the court and to individuals regarding participation and/or progress in treatment. Provide consultation to client’s lawyers, other therapists, as needed. Provide case management to link clients with services outside of Lund & Strachan, Inc.

Supervisor: Angus Strachan, Ph.D.

Duties: As coordinator of mental health services from DMH, I serve as a liason to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University Affiliated Program and consult to/with the Child Health Works team re: mental health needs of children in LAUSD Early Education Centers. I also consult directly to LAUSD Early Education Centers, provide parent education courses, provide weekly staff development trainings, increase staff capacity to collaborate w/ one another and meet the needs of the children and families. Assist in linking LAUSD EECs with mental health agencies, as needed. Work with SPA district chiefs, program managers, and school-based/school-linked mental health coordinators to increase the capacitiy of providers to assess and treat infant and pre-school age children. Provide interventions for children ages 2-7 with behavioral and emotional difficulties to be used in the classroom and/or home.

Supervisors: Sam Chan, Ph.D., Marie Kanne Pulson, Ph.D.

Supervisors: Jennifer Carmona, Ph.D., Stephanie Saliger, MFT, Nicki Chiswick, LCSW., Diane Studna, Psy.D.

APA Accredited internship in clinical child and adolescent psychology Psychology Intern.

Clinician. Duties: This clinic specializes in assessing and treating children andadolescents with anxiety disorders. Provided cognitive-behavioral therapy to children involving family members and community members. Conducted the ADIS structured interview with parents and children. Upon completinginterviews and reviewing questionnaires, immediately made treatmentrecommendations to the family. Worked with family to develop a treatment approach consistent with family culture. Wrote intake reports and maintained clinic charts. Presented cases to clinic team in weekly case conference. Attended a weekly clinic with psychology and psychiatry faculty and interns to discuss medication and therapy treatment plans.

Supervisors: Lindsey Bergman, Ph.D. and John Piacentini, Ph.D.

Clinician. Duties: Assessed women diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis formood disorders such as depression, mania, bipolar disorder, and anxietydisorders, and screened for psychosis using the SCID structured interview.Administered life events questionnaire tailored for chronic pain patients.Supervisor: Alex Zautra, Ph.D.

Diagnositician. Duties: Administered WISC-IIIs and WPPSI-Rs to children and adolescents (ages 4 to 15) of various ethnic groups.

Supervisor: John Barton, Ph.D.

Counselor. Duties: Southwest Human Development is a community basedclinic serving low-income families. Clients were children aged 0 to 5 whoseparents or pre-schools reported emotional, behavioral, or developmentalimpairments. As a 0-5 therapist, I learned the DC 0-3. I conducted therapeuticand psycho-educational sessions with families in their homes using familysystems and attachment theory and completed all documentation and reports of those therapy sessions. I worked with the caregivers to develop treatment plans specific to the families culture and child’s needs. I educated families about social services available to them for their specific needs and collaborated with the psychiatrist to determine appropriateness of medication for children. Finally, I requested and managed client hours through the ValueOptions (AZ’s MediCal)healthcare system.

Supervisor: Christina K. Lebovitz, Ph.D.

Co-Therapist. This is a program for divorcing families intended to reduceanxiety and depression in children through parent and child psycho-education groups. Co-led a children’s manualized coping skills group for children ofdivorce. Met with families individually to determine goals for group. Delivered manualized treatment program over the course of 10 weeks. The children’s program focused on developing coping skills, enhancing communication withparents and defining appropriate goals and responsibilities in their newlyconfigured families. Also administered the group to individual children whoneeded to “make-up” missed sessions as the intervention built upon previoussessions. Group supervision included making revisions to the program content for delivery to children.

Supervisor: Irwin Sandler, Ph.D.

Principal Investigators: Irwin Sandler, Ph. D., Sharlene Wolchik, Ph.D.

Student Couples Therapist. Duties: The ASU Psychology Clinic provides therapy and assessment to a wide range of SES, cultural groups from the Pheonix metropolitan area. I conducted intake interviews and therapeutic sessions with a couple using diverse theoretical orientations. Write progress notes in keeping withtreatment goal. Write intake and termination reports. Make DSM-IV diagnoses. Present cases in weekly team meetings.Supervisor: Mary Davis, Ph.D.

Student Individual Therapist. Duties: Conduct intake interviews and therapeutic sessions with individual clients using diverse theoretical orientations. Write intake, progress, and termination reports. Make DSM-IV diagnoses. Facilitate case conceptualizations and creation of treatment plans with therapists in team meetings. Present cases in weekly team meetings.

Supervisors: Carol Nemeroff, Ph.D., Mary Davis, Ph.D.

Student Family Therapist. Duties: Conducted intake interviews and therapeuticsessions with family members together and individually using a primarilycognitive-behavioral orientation. Role-plays and play therapy have also been used with the children. Wrote intake and progress reports. Presented the case in weekly team meetings. Administered and scored the CBCL, BDI, and BSI.

Supervisor: Jon Barton, Ph.D.

Full-time Psychology Student Extern. Duties: Co-led stress-management groups using process and behavioral approach. Co-led day treatment support groups using process approach. Co-led an educational group entitled “How Groups Work”. Observed alcohol treatment groups. Conducted Alcohol ScreeningInterviews with clients in alcohol treatment, PTSD, and methadone programs.Provided individual support for clients. Served as liaison between clients and community. Conducted one behavioral-medicine intake. Wrote chart notes for allof the above. Conducted literature search on the efficacy of group therapy. Co-created instruments to assess the efficacy of the “How Groups Work” project. Administered neuropsychological questionnaires. Observed WAIS-IIadministration. Attended Family Therapy seminar (12 weeks). Attended Brief Psychodynamic therapy seminar (12 weeks). Attended Neuropsychological Assessment seminar (12 weeks). Attended Behavioral-Medicine seminars (4weeks). Attended biweekly High-Risk Management staff meetings to discusscrisis cases and provide support for staff members (8 weeks). Attended weekly Professional Issues seminars (8 weeks).

Supervisor: Naomi Himmelfarb, Ph.D.>

Employed Counselor. Duties: Created and implemented individual treatmentplans for juvenile delinquents in residential treatment facilities. Utilized crisis intervention. Implemented behavior modification techniques to improve basicsocial skills. Served as a liaison between children and courts as well as the Department of Social Services. Facilitated parental and peer relations. Tutored clients in math, English, and sciences. Assisted clients with daily activities (i.e. social activities, appointments, and chores).

Employed Child Care Worker. Duties: Provided milieu therapy for emotionallydisturbed adolescent girls in a residential treatment facility. Co-led weekly art therapy groups. Implemented behavior modification techniques. Facilitatedparental and peer relationships. Tutored clients with math, English and sciences. Administered and maintained inventory of medication. Assisted clients with daily activities, (i.e. social activities, chores, appointments). Supervisor: Janyce Lawson, M.A.

Intern. Duties: Created and prepared activities designed to be therapeutic and to provide alternative situations for observing child/parent and peerinteractions. Observed and recorded DSM-III-R symptoms. Made DSM-III-Rdiagnoses. Recommended individualized and treatment plans to be implementedwith each client and his/her family. Attended weekly staff meetings to discuss client’s therapeutic status and home environment.Supervisor: Janice Lutz, Ph.D.

In this study I compared a theory of behavior change to what communitymembers (schools and practioners) actually do to change physical activity in youth, as sedentary individuals are three times more likely to have mooddisorders than active individuals. I believe it is important to integrate practice and research in order to find the most efficacious treatments for any disorder, and thus far, how to increase physical activity remains unclear. A review of what is practiced with children and adolescents, suggested that behavioral strategies were most efficacious for increasing physical activity (the outcomemeasure), not the variables identified by theory. My dissertation supported this in that the variables from practice predicted more variance in exercise behaviorthan did the variables from theory. The end result is a model for a physicalactivity intervention program that integrates the variables from practice with theeffective variables from theory.

The researchers at the Research in Prevention Laboratory focus on developingprevention intervention models that can be incorporated into any interventionprogram to increase the effectiveness of the program.

The purpose of the Dads for Life grant was to evaluate the efficacy of psychoeducation groups for fathers to prevent mood disorders in children ofdivorce. The efficacy of mother psychoeducation groups was already established in the New Beginnings grant.Graduate Research Assistant. Duties: Having experience in behavioral data collection and lab management, I recruited, interviewed, hired, trained andsupervised undergraduate lab members (n=4), trained incoming graduatestudents, managed the operational aspects of the laboratory. I maintained subject payment, grant checking account and reports, wrote and reviewed manuscript correspondence. In addition, I collaborated in the design andmethodology of experiments and questionnaires. I conducted interactionexperiments between former spouses as well as father-child interactions.

I collected, organized, and managed video, audio, paper, and computer data, maintained the database, and maintained laboratory equipment and supplies.

The purpose of this study was expand upon the existing research on basic emotional responses. In particular, previous research was limited to Caucasian samples. This study extended the research sample to include African American, Mexican, Mexican-American, Chinese, and Chinese-American samples. A largepart of the study involved defining each sample with sensitivity to each culture.Full-time Project Manager. Duties: Supervised all managerial and operational aspects of the laboratory. Recruited, interviewed, hired, trained and supervisedundergraduate lab members (n=40) and trained incoming graduate students toconduct psychophysiological experiments. Lead weekly discussions/groupsupervision of undergraduate students using selected readings from the scientificliterature, Recruited subjects, Scheduled and conducted humanpsychophysiological experiments, Collaborated in creation and design of newexperiments, Collaborated in creation of questionnaires, Maintained schedules ofundergraduate and graduate student lab members, and Maintained humansubjects approval, databases, accounting reports, laboratory equipment and supplies. Reviewed grant manuscripts and grant renewals. Wrote and reviewedmanuscript correspondence.

Research Assistant. Duties: Conducted empathy experiments with human subjects, De-briefed subjects, and Administered questionnaires.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of divorce on attachment styles in young children of various cultural backgrounds.Employed Research Assistant. Duties: Conducted Ainsworth’s strange situation in laboratory sessions with divorcing and in-tact families, Administered the Caregiving Interview, Administered psychological questionnaires, Recruitedsubjects, Pre-screened subjects for eligibility, Scheduled and confirmedappointments with subjects, Trained new personnel, Collected, verified, entered, tracked, and managed data. Conducted data analyses for grant renewals and presentations.

The Western Psychiatric Institute is one of the six sites of the well-known ADHD Mulit-site Study. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of mental health treatment, medication treatment, and combination treatment. The results indicated that the effects of combination treatment were not “over and above” the effects of medication treatment alone. Employed Research Assistant. Duties: Conducted Social Persistence experiments with children ages 6-14, Debriefed subjects, Supervised researchassistants, Coded video data, Administered psychological questionnaires,Administered medication, Collected, verified, entered, tracked, and manageddata, Coded and recorded playground behavior.

Research Assistant. Duties: Input and verified data. Trained undergraduate research assistants, Provided advisement of statistical methodology for new proposals, Created and co-created experiments using an existing data set, Conducted analyses, Wrote-up manuscripts, Prepared manuscripts for conferences and presented manuscripts at conferences.

Research Assistant. Duties: Conducted learning-and-memory experiments with human subjects, Debriefed subjects, Manuscript preparation, write-up and presentation, and Revised manuscript for publication.

Research Assistant. Duties: Conducted “Belief in a Just World” experimentswith human subjects, Collaboration on experimental design, Advised researchassistants on manuscript preparation, Manuscript preparation, write-up and presentation.