Lecturer in Psychology
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), University of Peshawar
Total years of experience :18 years, 4 Months
• Program Coordinator for MSc in Peace & Conflict Studies.
• Controller Examiner for BS Program.
• Deliver lectures on Introduction to Psychology, Peace Psychology, Human Growth & Behavior, and Culture of Violence to students of BS, MSc, & PGD.
• Supervision & guidance of research students at graduate level.
• Guidance and counseling to students having trouble in academics, family issues, career selection, adjustment issues, mental health problems, etc.
• Develop course outlines of the departmental programs of study.
• Arrange timetables, date sheets, paper setting, and checking.
• Member of academic/ non-academic committees, including disciplinary committee.
• Organize workshops, seminars, and conferences from time to time.
• Apply psycho-diagnostic assessments.
• Provide psychotherapeutic services to individuals, couples, and families having less severe mental and emotional issues.
• Practice cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT), client-centered therapy, family therapy, behavior therapy, dialectical therapy, psychodynamic techniques, and mindfulness techniques.
• Refer clients to professionals for psychotropic and other specialized treatments.
• Teach psychology to students of Social Sciences and Business Administration.
• Manage and organize 11 certificate courses on Conflict Resolution, Mediation Skills & Peace Building for Government officials & civil society in KP.
• Select and engage specialized resource persons for the certificate course.
• Short-list 30 participants each for the training course among applicants.
• Assist project activities and Management Information System.
Mental Health Department:
• Team Leader of Mental Health Department (Secondary Health Unit), leading a team of psychologists, social workers, and community mobilizers.
• Supervise the team working at three primary health centers in the community.
• Work with a Consultant Psychiatrist to devise treatment plans based on clients interests, abilities, and needs.
• Refer patients to psychiatrist for investigations and medication.
• Apply test batteries, diagnose psychological disorders, and provide counseling and psychotherapeutic services to patients.
• Treat children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities, ADHD, Autism, psychosis, behavior disorders, anxiety, or depression.
• Conduct child-specialized therapies including play therapy, behavior therapy, and cognitive-behavior therapy.
• Provide psychoeducation to patients families.
• Provide mental health interventions to persons with disabilities (PWDs) referred by the physiotherapy unit.
• Motivate and rehabilitate challenged individuals in their lives as much as possible.
• Impart awareness of mental health at the community level, schools, and colleges for identification of mental disorders, and psychological empowerment.
• Conduct capacity-building trainings on mental health and psychosocial support, for health professionals, staff, and school teachers.
• Assessment of patients, history taking, diagnosing, providing supportive counseling, and CBT to the patients.
• Design psychological management plan and its implementation.
• Active participation in case conferences.
• Visit four Afghan Refugee Camps in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
• Analyze data such as interview notes, test results, and reference manuals to identify symptoms and diagnose the nature of clients problems.
• Identify GBV victims, diagnose psychological problems, and provide counseling and psychotherapy.
• Refer patients to specialists at other organizations for non-counseling treatment of problems.
• Train the Basic Health Unit staff on Mental Health, Human Rights and GBV.
• Arrange awareness sessions and seminars on Human Rights, Child, and Women Rights,
• Interview mental health patients, torture and violence victims and provide counseling and psychotherapeutic services.
• Design and implement behavior modification programs.
• Collaborate with the psychiatrist to develop and implement treatment & intervention programs that patients can understand and comply with.
• Train the social workers in the identification of torture and violence victims.
• Conduct free psychiatric camps.
• Visit the Peshawar Central Jail on need base.
• Analyze psychosocial problems of vulnerable street children and adolescents.
• Provide child psychotherapy and counseling.
• Provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy.
• Motivate children and adolescents for Life Skill-Based Education.
• Motivate drug addicts for social rehabilitation.
• Impart health education regarding HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
• Work in direct contact with the vulnerable communities of KP, Peshawar.
• Patient intake, assessment, diagnosis, test batteries, psychotherapeutic services.
Research Title: The Survivors of Political Violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Trauma, Stress, Growth & Treatment Interventions.
Research: Prevalence of Anxiety and Resilience among students exposed to 2016 Terrorist attack on Bach Khan University Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
1. 1st Position Holder in P.G.D. in Clinical Psychology. 2. Completed 11 months Internship in the Department of Psychiatry, Government Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar. 3. Completed 100 hours of supervised psychotherapeutic sessions. 4. Completed application of Psychological Test Batteries.
1. Studied a course titled "Educational Psychology & Curriculum" 2. Completed Workshop & Teaching Practice.
Completed internship in Clinical Psychology with 80/100 marks
1. Major courses taken were Psychology and Law 2. Was Class Representative (CR) of my class/batch.