Dryden Barclay Watner, Ph.D.
Westfield,New Jersey
Summary
Experienced professional specializing in the identification and diagnosis of psychological, emotional, and behavioral issues. Proficient in utilizing a range of assessment tools and techniques to accurately identify and address clients' needs.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Psychologist
Livingston Educational Center
01.2020 - Current
- Work collaboratively with Learning Specialist to provide full neuropsychological evaluations to children and adults.
- Administer neuropsychological, personality and cognitive tests as needed.
- Provide clients with comprehensive reports, including diagnoses and recommendations.
- Conduct testing for local school districts, as needed.
- Consult with attorneys regarding psychological evaluations needed for court cases.
- Conduct school observations.
Clinical Psychologist
Brown Psychological Services
01.2019 - Current
- Provide individualized assessments of clients' psychological functioning, including cognitive ability testing, neuropsychological testing, and personality assessment.
- Attend biweekly team meetings to collaborate and review cases.
- Consult with attorneys regarding psychological evaluations needed for court cases.
- Conduct school observations, as needed.
- Acted as Testing Coordinator and fielded all calls inquiring about evaluations. Reviewed procedures, discussed testing plans and referred to psychologist in practice.
Clinical Psychologist
Compass Psychological Services
01.2017 - Current
- Conduct intakes and formulate evaluation plans.
- Utilize a combination of objective and projective measures.
- Work with insurance companies to obtain pre-authorizations and determine coverage and eligibility for patients.
- Administer, score and interpret psychological, psychoeducational and neuropsychological tests.
- Assimilate data and write reports.
- Evaluations address questions of autism, ADHD, learning disorders, personality disorders, mood disorders.
- Conduct classroom observations when necessary.
Tester
Prep for Prep
02.2006 - 05.2009
- Administered IQ tests to gifted children.
- Scored and interpreted IQ tests.
Postdoctoral fellow/therapist
Andrus Children's Center, Mental Health Division
08.2007 - 07.2008
- Caseload = 25
- Provided ongoing individual, collateral and family psychotherapy to children and their families at outpatient clinic and school settings.
- Administered and interpreted psychological and neuropsychological testing.
- Participated in Annual Review meetings at the Board of Education as part of interdisciplinary team to determine needs of children in Special Education.
- Provided fire-starting evaluations and interventions, act as liaison between clinic and Yonkers Juvenile Fire-setting Network.
- Member of Institutional Review Board, reviewed and evaluated research proposals.
- Provided therapeutic services, including parent training, individual therapy and school consultations, as part of Westchester Early Intervention and Committee on Preschool Education programs.
- Co-leader of boys' weekly social skills group.
- Attended weekly didactic seminars.
Intern/therapist
Andrus Children's Center, Mental Health Division
08.2006 - 07.2007
- Caseload = 16
- Provided ongoing individual, collateral and family psychotherapy to children and their families at outpatient clinic and school settings.
- Administered and interpreted psychological and neuropsychological testing.
- Participated in Annual Review meetings at the Board of Education as part of interdisciplinary team to determine needs of children in Special Education.
- Provided fire-starting evaluations and interventions, acted as liaison between clinic and Yonkers Juvenile Fire- setting Network.
- Attended weekly didactic seminars.
- Trained in Stanley Greenspan's Floortime model of early intervention.
Primary Therapist/extern
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Outpatient Department
06.2005 - 07.2006
- Caseload = 8, approximately 24 hours/week
- Provided ongoing individual psychotherapy to children and adolescents at outpatient clinic.
- Administered and interpreted psychological and neuropsychological testing.
- Worked in therapeutic nursery with multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, social workers, teachers and psychologists.
- Conducted intake interviews.
- Developed and conducted weekly parenting skills group.
- Co-led weekly adolescent inpatient therapy group.
- Attended grand rounds, rounds, didactic training on regular basis.
Therapist in training
St. John's Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies
08.2005 - 04.2006
- Caseload = 3-4
- Trained in empirically supported treatment for traumatized children.
- Provided manualized therapy over 16-weeks to child and guardian.
- Listened to and coded over 40 hours of therapy.
Therapist in training
St. John's Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies
08.2002 - 07.2005
- Caseload = 2-4
- Administered and interpreted psychological and intelligence tests, including WISC, Stanford-Binet, TAT, Rorschach, BASC, Bayley, Bender-Gestalt, Woodcock-Johnson.
- Provided ongoing individual psychotherapy to children.
- Interviewed family and client, completed intakes.
Primary Therapist/extern
Queens Children's Psychiatric Center
08.2004 - 05.2005
- Caseload = 3, approximately 20 hours/week
- Provided ongoing individual psychotherapy to children and adolescents on inpatient unit.
- Administered and interpreted psychological and intelligence tests.
- Co-led weekly "Developing Healthy Relationships" group.
- Attended and presented material at diagnostic case conferences and treatment team meetings.
- Attended monthly grand rounds presentations.
- Wrote and reviewed treatment plans and interdisciplinary progress notes on monthly and weekly basis.
- Participated in crisis intervention.
Education
Ph.D. - Clinical psychology, Child track
St. John's University
Jamaica, NY09-2007
MA - Clinical psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY05-2000
Post baccalaureate pre-medical program -
Columbia University
New York, NY05-1998
BS - Psychology; Women's Studies certificate
Duke University
Durham, NC05-1996
Skills
- NJ: 35S100515000 (active)
- NY: 017856-1 (inactive)
Timeline
Clinical Psychologist
Livingston Educational Center
01.2020 - Current
Clinical Psychologist
Brown Psychological Services
01.2019 - Current
Clinical Psychologist
Compass Psychological Services
01.2017 - Current
Postdoctoral fellow/therapist
Andrus Children's Center, Mental Health Division
08.2007 - 07.2008
Intern/therapist
Andrus Children's Center, Mental Health Division
08.2006 - 07.2007
Tester
Prep for Prep
02.2006 - 05.2009
Therapist in training
St. John's Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies
08.2005 - 04.2006
Primary Therapist/extern
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Outpatient Department
06.2005 - 07.2006
Primary Therapist/extern
Queens Children's Psychiatric Center
08.2004 - 05.2005
Therapist in training
St. John's Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies
08.2002 - 07.2005
MA - Clinical psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
Post baccalaureate pre-medical program -
Columbia University
BS - Psychology; Women's Studies certificate
Duke University
Ph.D. - Clinical psychology, Child track
St. John's University