Psychologist
Gumdale Medical Centre
Total years of experience :28 years, 6 Months
Private Practice (Wed & Sat)
-Conducting psychological assessment of clients referred through medical officers and external agencies
-Designing treatment plan for clients experiencing a wide range of psychological problems including anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorders, relationship difficulties, work related stress and conflicts, and people going through financial crisis
-Administering psychological tests and measurements including DASS, Beck, Mental Health Inventory, , …..
Liaising with internal and external stakeholders and --providing progress updates
-Providing individual and family focused clinical interventions using various therapies such as traditional CBT, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Stress Management, Anger Management, Conflict resolution, ….
-Preparing and writing reports to medical doctors and agencies if required.
-Providing recommendation and suggestions to individual clients, medical officers, carers, and employers including WorkComp.
-Providing direct clinical services including assessment, planning and delivery to a broad range of clients aged 18 and over,
-Monitoring & evaluating outcomes of clinical services,
Contributing to the professional development of the team by identifying the potential seminars, conferences, workshops, and reviewing articles relevant to psychological interventions across cultures,
-Preparing psychological reports & maintaining up to date information in clinical records,
-Functioning as a member of a team and participating in team decision making regarding diagnosis, case formulation and client management, and providing expert advice on the impact of psycho-social aspects on mental health examination, case formulation, and treatment plan,
-Undertaking research for use in planning & evaluating client programs & service delivery functions of the team, including developing research proposal on clinical utility of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy with people with psychosis in an outpatient clinic.
-Participating in quality activities, in local and District project teams/committees as required,
Attending to higher duties and activities on behalf of team leader such as ‘Quality & Safety Working Group’ meetings.
-Providing supervision to psychologists within mental health service and postgraduate and provisional psychology student from universities ( e.g.UQ, QUT),
-Developing training manuals and guidelines and training schedule within outpatient mental health clinics.
-Holding profile as the senior psychologist- specialised in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy- Cross cultural consultant, and accredited supervising psychologist.
-Teaching in the School of Humanities, ‘Health, Society, Environment’
-Preparation and delivery of lectures
-Conducting tutorials
-Compiling and locating relevant materials
-Providing consultation to students
-sessing and marking exams
-Developing projects in the area of mental health outcome measures ( HoNOS & Mental Health Inventory),
-Establishing and organising advisory group
-Preparing project proposals and ethics applications and getting approval from ethics committee,
-Coordinating the implementation of the project,
Supervising team and group facilitators for the focus groups
-Organising, and facilitating groups & workshops
-Overseeing day to day activities of the projects
-Attending seminars and presenting reports and writing publication
-Providing personal and generalist psychological counselling to people from low socio economic backgrounds,
-Assessing and administering psychological tests,
-Holding seminars and workshops for community, parents and teachers living in low socio-economic suburbs/districts,
-Participating in community forums and meetings in the area,
-Writing reports and funding applications,
Supervising students and volunteers
-Reviewing & analyzing international mental health policies for the WHO and World Bank
-Giving seminar on research methods (Qualitative & Quantitative)
-Developing research projects on the relationship between socioeconomic factors and mental illness, social capital and its relationship with well-being in the community, evidence based research and health programs and interventions.
-Reviewing the literature and liaising with Government authorities within developing countries and investing current policies and programs in the area of mental health.
-Teaching the subject ‘Research Methods & Technology’
-Preparation and delivery of lectures
-Consultation with students
-Locating literature review
-Marking exams
-Detailing literature reviews
-Interviewing research participants
-Collecting research data
-Analysing the data using qualitative and quantitative computer programs
-Attending conferences and seminars
-Participation in writing reports
-Assessing welfare and well-being of clients
-Providing information and advice to clients regarding health & safety issues
-Making referrals to health services & other agencies
-Conducting interviews with clients and families
Providing training & interventions on preventing & coping with injuries
-Liaising with line managers and directors regarding clients’ health & welfare
-Writing reports on the process of rehabilitation of clients
- providing counselling to employees and their families
courses: QLD Doctoral Degree (School of public health, UQ)
UQ Full time two year course work in the School of Social Work & Social Policy. The major subjects were: social policy analysis & development, human services management, program planning, implementation, and evaluation, social planning, social policy process & development, and an independent research study. This study was titled “Mental Health Services in Ethnic Communities: Literature Review and Analysis of Mental Health Policy”.
majoring in Clinical Psychology Full time four year course work. The major subjects were: general psychology, growth psychology, research methods, descriptive and inferential statistics, psychology and research, principles of clinical psychology, psychology of exceptional children, clinical child psychology, principles of sociology, and social pathology.