CV - Dr Smita Pandey Bhat

I am Dr Smita Pandey Bhat (M.Phil, PhD) a Clinical Psychologist; currently self employed (June 2010-till present) as a Consultant Practitioner and Researcher.

My experience as A Psychotherapist and Neuropsychologist:

Currently, I am involved in Behavioural Management and applying it in several aspects including assessments and therapies. Also, I am involved in neuro-psychological assessments and Cognitive rehabilitation of chronic mentally ill patient. My thesis on neurocognition has been highly appreciated. Also, I have worked on different projects on neurocognitive assessment and neuro-cognitive brain enhancement strategies mentioned below.

My experience as a Project Manager and Researcher for Neuropsychological Clinical Trials:

My latest employment was with TCG (Jan 2007 - June 2010) as the Project Manager and Psychologist for Neuro-psychological Clinical Trials. I was also involved in Medical Writing, scientific report writing. I was actively involved in Market Research, Market analyses and Business Development and attended client meetings and gave presentations to them (involved in creating RFP’s etc.). I am known for my contribution in science and research.

I have also worked as a research associate at King George Medical College (Dec 2003-July 2004), where I was involved in case reporting, rating and assessments etc. for the clinical trials.

My experience as a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology:

I was employed as Lecturer in Chetna Institute (Aug 2005-June 2006) where I was involved in teaching and practice of behavioural management principles, general psychology and teaching in child mental health.


My experience as a School Counselor and Lecturer (PGT Psychology):

In Army Public School (Aug 2005-Aug 2006) I mainly worked as a school counsellor, where I have been working as a counsellor for the students to select careers and helping them dealing with their emotions properly. Also, I dealt with conduct disorder problems, learning disability and attention deficit hyperactivity problems- typical in childhood. As PGT Psychology, I dealt with several challenges of teaching for class 11th and 12th students and adopted new methods for improving the retention and memory for the learned materials.

My major skills:

I am an effective leader with good interpersonal skills and rapport establishing. I am good in communication of both Hindi and English –written and spoken. I am a compassionate listener with keen observing skills; excellent problem solver and good in conflict resolutions. I have been involved in teaching/training/lectureship and have got good presentation skills. I am good in market research and analyses with a fine flair for business development activities. I am an excellent writer for science, non-science and fiction.


EDUCATION / INSTITUTION

PhD Clinical Psychology
April,2008)
CIP, Ranchi, University, India
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M.Phil, Medical and Social Psychology
(Aug ,2001)
CIP, Ranchi, University, India _____________________________________________________

NET-National Test Education Eligibility for Lectureship)
(June 1998)
University Grants Commission, India
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M.A Psychology
(Dec 1998)
Lucknow University, India ____________________________________________________
B.A Psychology & English Literature
(Oct.1996)
Lucknow University India ____________________________________________________


Professional Membership
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1. American Psychological Association (APA)
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2. Indian Association of Clinical Psychology (IACP)


WORK EXPERIENCE / COMPANY
1. Consultant Clinical Psychologist
-Counsellor/ Researcher
Self Employed
(June 2010- till Present)
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• Counseling ,Behavior Therapy , Assessments and Guidance for school and educational problems, anxiety, depression, social phobia ,sleep, pain, anger , emotional and behavioral problems, improving mental health ,stress management, sleep management, behavior therapy, management and modification.
• Psychotherapies, Group/ Family Therapies for Marital, family, work related problems.
• Neuro-Psychological Assessments and rehabilitation for chronic mental illnesses like chronic schizophrenia. & Progressive degenerative disorders like dementia in Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s and neurological diseases.

2. Project Manager & Sr. Research Psychologist:
(Jan 2007-June 2010)
(TCG) Gurgaon, India

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Managing Clinical Projects related to Neuro-psychological batteries:

Providing scientific specifications to the software team for the construction or customization of neuro-psychological battery, dealing with the clients for clinical operations and managing helpdesk and support in terms of scientific and operational solutions, dealing with logistics and shipment, liaisioning with the data-management team, maintaining QA guidelines etc. All activities from project initiation, project maintenance till the project closure.
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Scientific/Medical Writing:

Writing reviews of literature on psychiatric and psychological and neuro-psychaitric diseases, summaries etc.
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Assisting Scientific Director:

Assisting for Report Writing and analyses; Developed Norms
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Assisting Quality Assurance:

Writing and reviewing SOP’s; Implementing it in accordance with QA , co-operating with the Audits, implementing surprise audits , implementing the Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)- Proactively or Reactively.
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Business Development and Market Analyses:

Creating Request for Proposals (RFP’s) and promoting business through business teleconferences with the clients, power –point presentations and face to face presentations Market Research and Analyses. Writing Contents for advertisements on the web etc. Assisting the Director Business Development for these purposes, Writing summaries and minutes of the meetings
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Other roles:

Proper resource allocation, conflict resolution and team management along with the Recruitment of new staff for the team
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3.. Senior Clinical Psychologist
(Nov 2006- Jan 2007)
Hope
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Cognitive Assessments, Cognitive Rehabilitation and Behaviour Therapy for Schizophrenia, Depression and Substance Abuse and Alcohol Abuse Patients - Group and Family therapies
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4. Lecturer Clinical Psychology
Aug 2005-June 2006
Chetna Institute , Lucknow, India _____________________________________________________

Teaching Psychological and, Cognitive assessments, Behaviour Therapy; Counselling etc.
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Teaching Behaviour Modification Techniques, implementing those techniques etc.
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Teaching General Psychology and other psychological principles
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Teaching Child Mental Health and its treatment to the students
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5. School Counsellor and Lecturer
(Aug 2004-Aug 2005)
Army Public School
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Teaching and Counselling:

Teaching with new educational techniques, On the Interview Panel, Assessing the Students, Guiding and Counselling them for careers and aptitude, counselling for emotional problems etc., Taking workshops and lectures for Parents and Teachers etc.
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6. Research Associate
(Dec 2003-July 2004)
King George Medical College, Lucknow, India
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Cognitive assessments, assessing on rating scales, after taking case histories, mental status examination for Clinical Trials.
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Major Publications / Presentations

Journal
Neurobiology of Asperger’s Syndrome:
A case Study and Overview
Indian Journal of Psychiatry 43(3), 2001, 267 – 272.
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A Comparative study of Vocational Therapy
using Structured and Unstructured
instructions inpatients with schizophrenia
Eastern Journal of Psychiatry,. 2003; 7 ( 1 & 2 ): 81 – 83.
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Multiple Perspectives of depression
Review Article in Souvenir
Souvenir 14th National Conference of Indian Association of Social Psychiatry, 2003.
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Cognition And Fibromyalgia, Symptoms,
: Causes and Treatment
Positive Health Online Journal U.K. Nov 2010(176)
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Major Presentations / Conferences

Behaviour Treatment in Epilepsy
14th National Seminar on mental retardation,2001
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Psychology Intervention in Seizures
27th National Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists, 2001
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Behavioural management in
29th National Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists, 2003
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Cogtest Identifies Impairment In
Multiple Memory Domains In Age
Associated Memory Impairment
International Conference Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD),2008.
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Computerized battery in schizophrenia:
Patient Experiences Computerized
Neurocognitive Battery
Across Cultures -Implications
15th Binneial Winter Workshop in Psychoses, 2009
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Computerized Cognitive Testing in
Early Parkinson’s disease:
the Patient Experiences
3rd World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy); 2009.
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Computer Cognitive Testing in
Schizophrenia: Patients Experiences
International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and
Methodology (ISCTM);2009.
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Computerized Cognitive Testing
in Idiopathic PD with Motor
Fluctuations: Patient Experiences
18th WFN, World Congress on PD and Related Disorder,2009
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Computerized Cognitive Testing in
Idiopathic PD with Motor
Fluctuations: Patient Experiences
International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and
Methodology (ISCTM);2010
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Computerized Cognitive Testing
in Schizophrenia: Patients’ Experiences
Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference
(SIRS);2010
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Standardization of the Cogtest Clinical:
A Neurocognitive battery for children
National Conference of the Drug Evaluation
Unit (NCDEU);2010
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Thesis /Dissertations

“Role of Cognitive rehabilitation and
Vocational Training in Chronic Schizophrenia”
PhD
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Behaviour Management in Epilepsy
M.Phil

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Research Reviews (Peer Reviews)
Skin diseases among under school age children Journal of Bacteriology Research; 2009

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Other Publications

My Blogs on Mental Health

Literary Publications- Poems

Literary

Literature on my Tour

Assisted in Marketing Articles for Mr. Anil Bhat
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Workshops & TV shows / Topics

Army Public School
Career Selection

Guru Gram Singh Public School
Behavioural Problems in Children

Mount Abu Public School
Good Parenting Styles

Army Cantonment Area.
Counselling

CIP,Ranchi
Exhibition on Mental Health

Pragya TV
Burden of education in young children

Pragya TV
Problem of Stammering

Live India
Mental Health

Pragya TV
Getting Independence in Adolescence

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Achievements and Awards

Young Scientist Award
18th WFN, World Congress on PD and Related Disorder, 2009

Celebrity Guest on Mental Health
Indiatimes.com

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SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Management And Business - Leadership Skills:

• An effective communicator with demonstrated leadership & excellent interpersonal/ relationship management skills.

• Demonstrative excellence in planning and executing numerous novel ideas across the career with proven abilities in management.

• Identifying key clients & undertaking activities to initiate business with them, & undertaking regular follow ups to retain such clients.

• Assessing client needs / enhancements, customization of the product accordingly & consulting with technical team to provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules.

• A proactive leader and planner with expertise in strategic planning.

• Well versed in team management and coordination.
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• Well conversant in managing offices of top management & coordination.

• Possess good interpersonal skills for managing the team and good coordination with the other teams as well.


Medical Writing/ Presentation Skills:

• Good writing skills, good reflective thinking and high sense of creativity in scientific writing.

• Knack of making good scientific presentations and present the same in front of a huge audience.


Skills for being a successful Psychologist:

• Good rapport establishing skills, interviewing skills, history taking and making psychological assessments and diagnoses.

• Excellent behavioural management (reward management/motivation enhancement etc.) psychotherapeutic and counselling skills and neuropsychological rehabilitation.
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Other Skills:

• Demonstrative flair for marketing and business development.

• A good orator with high level of expression in one to one meetings, teleconferences or power point presentations.
• Inquisitiveness to learn new things, abilities to work under pressure, reflective creative thinking.

• Quick and spontaneous solution/answer provider for the issues/questions raised by clients.
• Keen observer and judge and used these observations to improve and enhance the performance of employees
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