Question
Develop Professional Résumés
In order to demonstrate an awareness of psychological career alternatives in a community setting, you will develop résumés for each of the professional experts chosen for your presentation in the Week Three discussion. Include relevant academic and professional experience that highlights their careers, appropriate skills, and expertise. Brief job descriptions identifying the major duties associated with each relevant work experience should also be included in the résumé. The job description format should be based on the “Professional Experience”/”Relevant Experience” section in one of the sample
résumés provided below. Each résumé should be two to three pages in length. You may use the resources available on the following web pages:
- Ashford University Career Services (http://www.apa.org/careers/psyccareers)
- American Psychological Association PsyCareers (http://www.apa.org/careers/psyccareers)
- Sample Résumés:
You may use additional sources for career information as long as they are credible. An example of a credible source for this information would include The Chronicle of Higher Education. Utilize at least two professional career-related sources as a basis for the information you will use to complete the required sections in the résumé. All sources must be documented in APA style, as outlined by the Ashford Writing Center.
Writing Professional Resumes
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A successful Clinical Psychologist with a bias in adolescent suicide and mental health, National Speaker/Trainer, Expert Witness, and Author of various books thus contributing to scholarly literature in the field of psychology.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- Adolescent suicide and mental health
- Training, consultancy, and public speaking on various psychological and psycho-legal issues
- Develop and plan Keynote Addresses as well as Workshops targeting state, national, and international conferences.
- Develop and administer training programs that target youths with substance dependency problems and those in the juvenile justice system.
- Provide expert testimony in legal cases involving juvenile delinquency.
- Provide general counseling to youths with mental health issues and those at the verge of committing suicide or inflicting self-injury.
- Author of psychological books, book chapters associated with edited volumes, and various articles.
WORK HISTORY
Psychologist, National Speaker/Trainer, Consult, Expert Witness, and Author 1997 – Present
TroubledTeenExpert.com
- Develop training programs for educational professionals, mental health, and for juvenile justice.
- Develop and plan Keynote Addresses as well as Workshops targeting state, national, and international conferences.
- Offer consultancy services to matters involving juvenile justice.
- Develop programs to assist youths with mental health problems and those at risk of committing suicide.
- Author of various books and articles.
Clinical Psychologist, Trainer, Consultant and Author 1999 – 2000
Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training
- Involved in developing training sessions and workshops for youths showing behavioral problems.
- Worked with justice personnel, law enforcement officials, community organizations, educators, and parents to help reform youths with behavioral issues.
- Part of a team that developed a mental health screening tool for assessing juvenile offenders.
- Developed a national training curriculum that provided guidance in delivery of a wide range of services including justice, mental health, and substance abuse services for juvenile offenders.
Clinical Psychologist, Project Manager, Consultant, and Trainer 1996 – 2000
University of Washington
- Coordinated the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration (UW/JRA) collaboration Project at the University of Washington. This program was meant to improve the quality of mental health services to juvenile offenders with mental health issues.
- In charge of projects related training, consultation, community assessment, and transition of juvenile offenders with mental health issues.
- Supervised psychology interns at the institution.
- Provided consultancy services on mental health programming, policy, and complex cases involving juvenile offenders.
- Developed training programs for correctional employees.
Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral consultant or Trainer
King County Juvenile Detention and University of Washington 1995-1996
- Worked at the King County Department of Youth Services where I managed seriously mentally ill offenders.
- Worked with young offenders having severe mental health issues.
- Worked with Washington State Juvenile Correctional Facilities by providing training to detention officers and evaluating the quality of mental health services.
EDUCATION
Ph.D./M.A.: Major in Clinical Psychology and Minor ibn Developmental Psychology
Wayne State University Detroit, MI.
B.A.: Major in Psychology, Personality, and Psychopathology Emphasis (1994)
University of California, Santa Barbara
PUBLICATIONS
- Juvenile Offenders with Mental Health Disorders: Who Are They & What Do WE do With Them (Second Edition) (Book)
- When To Worry: How To Tell if Your Teen Needs Help – And What To Do About It
- Suicide among children and adolescents: we can make a difference
- The Secret Cut: Understanding Self-Injury and Teens
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Psychological Association
- American Association of Suicidology
- American Correctional Association
Kay Redfield Jamison
The John Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland 21287 / 600N. Wolfe Street
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
An established clinical psychologist and writer specializing in mental health disorders such as mood disorders.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- Professor of psychiatry
- Internationally respected authority on mood disorders
- Researcher
- Researcher in the field of mental health disorders
- Contributing in the field of mental health disorders through numerous publications or articles
WORK HISTORY POSITION
2010 – Present The John Hopkins School of Medicine Inaugural Recipient
The Dalio Family Professorship in Mood Disorders
Department of Psychiatry
2005 – Present The John Hopkins Mood Disorders Center Co-director
The John Hopkins University School of Medicine
1993 – Present The John Hopkins University School of Medicine Professor
Department of Psychiatry
1997 University of St. Andrews Honorary Professor
1987 – 1993 Department of Psychiatry,
The John Hopkins University School of Medicine Associate Professor
1982 – 1983 Merton College, University of Oxford Visiting Senior Research Fellow
1977 – 1987 UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic Director and Co- founder
174 – 1981 Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Assistant Professor
Medicine
1973 – 1974 UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Pre-doctoral Intern in
Clinical Psychology
EDUCATION
University of California, Major in Clinical Psychology (1975)
Los Angeles, California. Minor in Comparative Psychology
and Psychopharmacology
University of California Candidate of Philosophy (1973)
The Maudsley Hospital Clinical Studies (1970)
Institute of Psychiatry
University of London
University of California, Los Angeles M.A., Psychology (1971)
B.A., Psychology
Magna Cum Laude and
Departmental Highest Honors
University of St. Andrews Junior Honours in Zoology (1967)
And Neurophysiology
University of California, Los Angeles Psychology (1966)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Jamison, K. R. Exuberance: The Passion for Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 7. Jamison, K. R. Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Jamison, K. R. Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Jamison, K. R. Introduction. Unholy Ghosts: Essays on Melancholy. Edited by N. Casey. New York: William Morrow, 2000.
- Jamison, K. R. Culture, conformity, and mental health. In Medicine and Humanity (M. Marinker, ed.), London: King’s Fund, 2001. 107.
- Jamison, K. R. Suicide in the young. Cerebrum, 3: 39-42, 2001.
- Jamison, K. R. Contemporary psychology and contemporary poetry: Perspectives on mood disorders. In Crawford, R. (Ed.) Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 118.
- Jamison, K. R. and Hawton, K. The burden of suicide and clinical suggestions for prevention. Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behavior: From Science to Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Other publications as well.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- National Network of Depression
- National Advisory Council (NIMH)
- National Committee for the Basic Sciences at UCLA
- The Dana Foundation, New York
- Saks/USC Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics
- Institute of Medicine: Committee on Member Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide
- Others
References
CareerProfiles. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.careerprofiles.info/psychology-resumes.html
Counseling Psychology Resume. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.tc.columbia.edu/career- services/resources/all-resources/resume-examples/counseling-psychology- resume/#primaryNavigation
PsychCareers. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.psyccareers.com/jobseeker/search/results/?site_id=22337&keywords=Kay+R edfield+Jamison&t15=
