Amy Lowenhaar-Blauwiess

With OSUN global partners, created a course The Psychology of Authoritarianism. Guest speakers in the field will join and help students understand the ways that the canonical texts we are engaging with are reflected in their own individual and national lives. An additional course, Prejudice and Populism, is under consideration for Spring 2024 or Fall 2024.

• Conducted academic advisement services for students on reoccurring basis to maintain educational progression.
• Provided support and guidance to students experiencing academic and personal troubles.
• Consulted with candidates on primary research, bibliographies and model writing assistance. Introduced readings and topis for close readings and Institute for Writing and Thinking practices to improve students' thinking and writing critically.

Implemented course in psychodynamic psychotherapy, personality disorders, attachment pattens, and parenting styles. Created curriculum to get students familiar with diagnostic criteria.

• Mentored students, offering advice and support on topic selection, appropriateness and academic value.
• Answered student inquiries and resolved problems related to curriculum and coursework, as well as helping students plan out their Public Health Concentration requirements.

• Provided support and guidance to students experiencing academic and personal troubles.
• Consulted with candidates on primary research, data collection, bibliographies and model writing assistance.
• Conveyed an understanding of the important of science communication within the larger context of science information for incoming freshman as part of their first-year experience.

Faculty in Bard College’s signature program for incoming freshmen. Each faculty member must develop a unique and individual curriculum, culled from an existing anthology that covers subjects as diverse as philosophy, political science, biology, ethics, art criticism, among others. The program culminates with each student’s having successfully produced a humanist essay after painstaking revision. Students are then considered to be ready for full matriculation into Bard.

• Fellow in psychodynamic psychotherapy;Supported teaching objectives of department by teaching through allocated lectures, tutorials and other forms of undergraduate and postgraduate instruction.
• Collaborated with team to optimize workflow and achieve objectives.
• Kept accurate records of patients progress, session consistency, and e-mail communication.

Neurofeedback and LENS modalities for treatment of TBI, PTSD, attention deficit disorders, OCD, anxiety/depression, developmental, borderline and attachment disorders, and other types of neurological, behavioral, and emotional-spectrum dysregulation. Worked with Dr. Stephen Larsen, director of the Center, to update his foundational works on neuromodulation and TBI. Worked in a translation capacity with insurance companies to make clinical work billable.

• Developed and implemented intensive individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior and other psychosocial issues.
• Guided clients in development of skills and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.
• Tracked progress according to goals for interventions.
• Maintained and updated patient records, changes in service plans and treatment reports.
• Documented patient information, treatment plans, and patient responses.
• Developed and maintained relationships with referral sources to support continuity of care.

CASAC/clinician. As a clinician with an extensive background in the psychodynamics of attachment and the psychotherapeutic alliance, assessed for signs of relapse, lethality, and underlying health issues, and to determine when a higher level of care was needed. Evaluations, intake, screenings, coordination of care and legal-system interface.

• Developed substance-use disorder pilot programming for the whole of the incoming freshman class. In addition to the psychobiology of addiction, this program covered the history and sociopolitical roots of the modern opioid crisis.