SHAHANAZ ABOOBACKER AHMED

• Conduct comprehensive assessments and diagnose mental/emotional disorders in diverse settings, including inpatient and outpatient clinics
• Administer tailored treatment programs addressing issues such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders, eating disorders, and psychosis
• Perform patient interviews, meticulously reviewing medical and social case histories to inform ongoing diagnostics
• Utilize various psychological tests to contribute to personalized treatment plans
• Collaborate with mental health professionals, offering consultations and insights for comprehensive care strategies
• Implement diverse psychological techniques for individual, group, and family therapies
• Continuously assess patient progress, adapting treatment plans and maintaining effective communication with family members
• Ensure meticulous documentation of therapy sessions in alignment with JCI standards, prioritizing patient confidentiality
• Provide crisis intervention in high-risk clinical presentations, delivering immediate psychological treatment
• Oversee interdepartmental quality assurance checks and contribute to ongoing clinical research programs
• Mentor students in psychological internships, actively contributing to their professional growth
• Provide Clinical Supervision to junior psychologists, ensuring skill enhancement within established standards
• Oversee development of Stepped care model clinical pathway to improve service efficiency
• Oversee the department functioning under general guidance of the Head of Department and ensure KPIs are met
• Manage staff of 50 clinical psychologists and junior psychologists across various units in the department

Achievements:

• Successfully assisted in developing and managing the National Mental Health Helpline as part of COVID response under the general guidance of the Lead of Psychology and other Executive leadership
• Offered lectures to Medical Students at Qatar University as part of the Psychiatry Clerkship
• Developed and oversaw the Psychology program aimed at providing psychosocial support for refugees from Afghanistan in transit in Qatar and worked with key partners including Qatar Charity, UNICEF, Qatar Foundation, and PHCC
• Working alongside the leadership and HR to develop a post-graduate clinical psychology training program for Qatar University graduates
• Reviewed HR and Clinical policies and Guidelines for Psychology under the general guidance of the Lead of the Psychology Department
• Successfully provided organizational and logistic assistance to aid Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust in running CBT training program at HMC.
• Established successful outreach programs to build strong working relationships with family practices, health and wellness staff members and management personnel.
• Consulted with community organizations to develop mental health programs tailored to local needs, increasing accessibility of services.
• Maintained confidential records related to individual patient treatment using CERNER.
• Performed research on effectiveness of interventions and proposed changes to intervention structures based on evaluation outcomes.

• Led a team of junior psychologists to provide psychological services across the hospital under various sub-specialties
• Successfully established a full-fledged interdisciplinary Clinical Psychology department
• Analyze data to improve service quality and efficiency
• Assisted in recruiting junior psychologists to meet service demands
• Developing a clinical care pathway under the general guidance of the leadership team
• Offering Psychotherapy services within IP and OP settings
• Training graduate psychology interns and junior consultants
• Providing clinical supervision to junior psychologists
• Attending MDT meetings and daily clinical rounds as part of the consultation liaison team.

• Offering psychological services once a week at Thalassery Juvenile Court to assist magistrate in the legal decision-making process
• Working in liaison with a team of psychiatrists, legal officers and other social service representatives
• Evaluating juvenile inmates to assess competency to stand trial and/or the offender’s responsibility for his behavior at the time of the offense
• Preparing reports which detail the findings in support of the opinion rendered
• Administering, scoring and interpreting a wide variety of psycho-diagnostic assessment instruments
• Discussing opinions as an expert witness before the court.

• Completing intakes, assessments, and outcome measurement
• Diagnosing mental and emotional disorders of individuals and administering programs of treatment
• Administering psychological tests including Intelligence, Personality, Emotional and behavioral assessment tools and neuropsychological assessments
• Writing detailed psychological reports
• Providing psychological interventions aiding in the management of psychological issues and pathologies in adults, adolescents and children
• Participating in in-service clinician meetings and daily ward rounds.

• Offering psychological services in both IP and OP settings
• Administering psychological tests including Intelligence, Personality, Emotional and behavioral assessment tools
• Writing detailed psychological reports
• Diagnosing (ICD 10) and arriving at effective therapeutic management plans in liaison with other health professionals
• Participating in in-service clinician meetings
• Offering extensive and long-term psychotherapy in clinical settings.

• Offering psychological services in Inpatient and Outpatient settings under supervision
• Conducting in-take interviews
• Undertaking specialist psychological assessments and formulating and executing psycho-education and other psychological treatment plans
• Providing individual and family management
• Planning and executing clinically effective and therapeutic treatment interventions for children and adolescents using ABA, DBT and CBT and basic counseling.