Qualifications Profile

Experienced Scientist Practitioner with proven strengths in program development, program management, training of staff of all experience levels in sophisticated clinical skills, fully computer literate, passionately devoted to life-long learning and scientific discovery, and dedicated to community service.

Ø Committed to synthesizing current advances in areas relevant to psychology (such as research in cognitive neuroscience), with therapeutic models to foster improved methods of service delivery.

Ø Ability to conceptualize and articulate didactic material depending on the educational and experience levels, well as cultural backgrounds, of clients, trainees, and supervisees.

Ø Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills both spoken and written.

Ø Exceptional capacity to utilize limited resources in creative ways to deliver quality services to individuals and families with a history of treatment failure.

Professional Experience

NORMAN BROUDY AND ASSOCIATES, Wilmington, DE 2/2006 to present

Therapist

· Provide therapeutic services to adults and adolescents using a systemic, family focused approach emphasizing skill building, stress management, and biofeedback.

Delaware guidance services for children, Wilmington, de 8/1999 to 10/2005

Senior Staff Psychologist

· Provided therapeutic services to adults and adolescents using a systemic, family approach, with an emphasis on skill building.

· Led the restructuring of the Intensive Outpatient Services Program to utilize a team-based service delivery structure.

· Developed and administered the Mental Health Aide Program, moving it toward an increased emphasis on a family therapy pattern-interruption model rather than a mentoring paradigm.

· Initiated the formation of the Wrap Around family therapy program and trained staff according to a nationally known best practices model (VanDenBerg Wrap Around approach).

TERRY CHILDRENS PSYCHIATRIC CENTER, New Castle, Delaware 9/1987-7/1999

Family Therapy Trainer, Mobile Crisis Clinical Director

· Trained therapy staff members in Salvador Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy model.

· Led a shift from an individually focused to a family centered service delivery model.

· Trained existing hospital staff (who had no previous experience in crisis intervention) in Michael White’s narrative therapy model to deliver 24/7 mobile crisis services when the inpatient psychiatric hospital was restructured to provide only outpatient services.

philadelphia child guidance clinic, inpatient unit, Philadelphia, PA 1986-1987

Staff Psychologist

· Provided psychological screenings and assessments of adolescent inpatients

· Acted as inpatient treatment team family therapy consultant.

stress and coping project, University of california, Berkeley, California 1978-1980

Research Assistant

· Assisted Richard Lazarus, Ph.D. and his research team.

· Assumed primary responsibility for information technology aspects of the project, including data analysis using SPSS on the university mainframe, and documentation preparation on a UNIX system using NROFF and TROFF.

Michigan State University, psychology Department, East Lansing, MI 1984-1985

Teaching Assistant

· Teaching assistant for graduate statistics course.

· Assumed primary responsibility for helping students learn to use the university computer center for data entry and analysis.

Educational Background

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, BA (1980)

university of california-– Berkeley, CA

Adult Clinical Psychology, MA (1982)

Michigan state university—East Lansing, MI

Child and Family Clinical Psychology, Ph.D. (1986)

Michigan state university—East Lansing, MI

Licensure

Delaware: Psychology: B0000234 since 06/89

Pennsylvania: Psychology: PS-004770-L since 11/86