Licensed Psychologist San Jose CA About Me Education University of Maryland College Park BS Psychology BA The Arts in Child Development University of Delaware MA Clinical Psychology PhD Clinical Psychology ID: 651980
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Arti Nigam, Ph.D.Clinical Psychologist
Licensed Psychologist, San Jose, CASlide2
About Me
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EducationUniversity of Maryland – College ParkBS Psychology
BA The Arts in Child Development
University of Delaware
MA Clinical Psychology
PhD Clinical Psychology
About me - EducationSlide4
Training –DuPont Hospital for Children, DelawareUniversity of Maryland – Baltimore
Mt. Washington Rehabilitation Hospital
Yale University School of Medicine
About Me - TrainingSlide5
Assembly lineResearch assistant during undergraduate
Research associate, private nonprofit
Community Counseling Center
Science Education Nonprofit
Group Psychology PracticeUniversity TeachingPrivate Psychology Practice
Places I have workedSlide6
The study of the mind, thought, and behavior
What is Psychology?Slide7
Birds’ playful and social communicationHow parents talk to preverbal infants
Changes in EEG when reading something unusual
Brain changes and plasticity after injury
Optimal approaches to foreign language education
Workplace motivation and productivityPeripheral vision
Safety signs in factories
Pain management
Athletic performance…
Psychologists have studied…Slide8
Focus on assessment and treatment of mental health issues.
There are many branches of psychology
Clinical
Counseling
NeuropsychologyCognitive PsychologyQuantitative Psychology
Health Psychology
What is Clinical Psychology? What other branches are there?Slide9
Some major branches of psychology (contd.)Social Psychology
Educational Psychology
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Forensic Psychology
and many more.
Branches of psychology (
contd
)Slide10
Great deal of overlap between branches.The rigor and scope of clinical psychology allows great flexibility in what direction(s) you take in your research or clinical career.
Clinical psychology researchers often engage in interdisciplinary collaboration.
Clinicians often specialize.
Clinical PsychologySlide11
Psychotherapy – General practiceFamily therapyDisability evaluation
Forensic psychology
Psychoeducational
testing
Specialization by diagnosis, e.g., eating disorders specialist, or by client population, or age range
Clinical Psychology - PractitionersSlide12
Psychotherapy isn’t a field you go into to be wealthy. It is NOT a field you go into because it meets your needs
to
help you understand yourself,
or
to help you resolve problems in your life, or even “
to prevent anyone from suffering how you did.
”
To diagnose self, family, friends.
Why NOT to become a psychotherapistSlide13
You have to be right for it, more than it being right for you.If YOU are right for the field, you will be better able to help those who come to you.
Psychology Practice is a callingSlide14
Stick-with-it-iveness
Good personal ethics
Perspective taking
Emotional self-discipline, self regulation
Able to critique self, hear and consider criticismHave some clarity on your own sense of moralityComfortable keeping confidences
Natural tendency to respect and value people
What it takes to be a good Clinical Psychology PractitionerSlide15
Quick to see good in another, even if < charmingAbility to see multiple valid sides in a dispute
Innate drive towards positive mental health
Know when you are struggling, and
Seek out someone you trust to talk about it
Develop healthy emotional boundariesPatience
What it takes to be a good Clinical Psychology Practitioner (2)Slide16
The world in which you were born
is
just one model of reality.
Other
cultures are not failed attempts at being you.
They
are unique manifestations
of
the human spirit.
- Wade
Davis
My inspiration – Cultural CompetencySlide17
The foundation of psychotherapy is the belief that
a person has the best chance of sorting through and finding solutions for psychological difficulties
within
an emotionally safe space and in the context of a
trusting
,
nonjudgemental
,
positive and
healthy
one
-way (no-obligation) relationship.
On being a psychotherapistSlide18
Check for messages from clients; call back if they need my help now.Dress professionally for work.
Arrive early to review day’s cases, set up office, plan therapeutic focus for each client that day.
Work with each client within a 50-minute time frame, record progress notes and homework assignments.
Phone and in-person intakes for new clients.
Routines in a General Private Practice
Things I might do in a typical daySlide19
If psychological testing, administer by correct protocol, score, interpret, write report (this is done over multiple days).Respond to any requests for release of records, with ethical considerations.
Make note of any planned changes in approaches.
Update billing information for my billing person.
Double lock records before leaving.
Typical day,
contdSlide20
CivilChild custody decisionsEmployment litigation
Workers compensation
Criminal
Competency for trial
Special factors for sentencing
Forensic PsychologySlide21Slide22
Great skill in research design and methodology, and statistical analysis, is critical in all research in psychology, but is the primary focus of quantitative psychologists. Quantitative psychologists may collaborate in the full range of research areas.
Quantitative PsychologySlide23
Quantitative PsychologySlide24
Learning PsychologySlide25
Developmental Psychology
Applied Research
Infant development
Language learning
Development of resiliencyTransmission of culture
Maturational processes and problems
Issues in middle age or elder yearsSlide26
You need a PhD to be an independently practicing psychologist, or a college faculty.But there are many people with Associates, Bachelors, or Masters degrees, who use their psychology degrees in their work.
How many years do you study? Slide27
With an Associates Degree
Behavioral aide, working one-on-one with special needs childrenSlide28
(Important to gain relevant experience during undergraduate years.)Research assistant
Survey researcher
Behavioral aide in a classroom or therapeutic setting
Journalist
Community advocacyMediator
With a Bachelors DegreeSlide29
School CounselorMarriage and Family TherapistTest administration and scoring psych assistant
Human factors specialist
Mediator
With a Masters DegreeSlide30
No license –Research and teaching careersWith a license –
Practice independently or in an agency or hospital
Test, diagnose, treat individuals, groups
Supervise other practitioners
Research, consult, design treatment programs
With a Doctoral Degree
in Clinical PsychologySlide31
A PsyD program is less research-intense, and is designed for those who have decided they will be practitioners. Clinical training is equally rigorous.
PhD
vs
PsyDSlide32
MSW, LCSW Licensed clinical social workersMFT Licensed marriage and family therapistsMental Health Nurse Practitioners
Who else does psychotherapy?Slide33
I wish I knew starting out that to be a clinical psychologist, after you get your Ph.D., you have to have a year of post-doc training (in addition to pre-doc internship) and take another exam to be licensed.
I wish I knew that it is critical to limit the nature and scope of your research projects to something doable in a limited amount of time. Easier to expand a small project, than to shrink a big one! Pick a little question!
I wish I knewSlide34
So many interesting topicsRelated to everything we experienceSatisfaction every day
Most psychologists are great people
Keep learning lifelong
I can change my focus or specialization, when I want
Overlaps with other fields is fascinating
Why I love the fieldSlide35
Psychology andLawNeuroscience
Linguistics
Statistics
Education, Special education
RehabilitationForeign Language
Overlaps with other fieldsSlide36
Psychology and…Communication/Journalism
International Relations
Public policy
Computer science/Engineering
Math and StatisticsFinanceAnimal science
Fine and performing arts
Overlaps with other fields (2)Slide37
Get involved. Talk to your professors. Find out what all the faculty in the department do for their research.
Ask to see what goes on in faculty labs. If it is interesting to you, ask if you can volunteer as an RA.
If you get an opportunity to RA, be punctual, diligent, and enjoy it! Talk with grad students about what they do.
Take classes or second-major in an interesting related field.
Travel, or get to know people from many backgrounds.
How to do well in the fieldSlide38
You have to love it. And you have to hustle.If you want to keep the option of eventually going to graduate school in psychology,
Undergraduate GPA target ~3.7
Experience
Match of research interests
How to do well in the field (2)Slide39
Some specializations definitely pay more than others.Neuropsychology and Forensic psychology will pay well; compared to
Designing therapeutic after school programs for children with emotional instability; compared to
Providing psychotherapy at a clinic for the indigent.
Specialization always helps. But you can switch.
SalarySlide40
American Psychological AssociationSynopsisPsi Chi
PsycInfo
OrganizationsSlide41
Early empathyEarly awarenessEncyclopedia
Had other potential paths also
Bindi
story
How I came to choose this careerSlide42
Please ask!
Questions?