Elizabeth Gilbert, famed author of Eat, Pray, Love, once wrote, “You spend a lot of your life having people tell you to follow your passion… passion is hot, it burns. Every day, you can’t access that… instead, follow your curiosity.” After graduating from Terra Nova High School in 2002 I decided to leave my home in the San Francisco Bay Area and move to Las Vegas to pursue better economic opportunities. For the past 13 years I’ve had the opportunity to closely interact with the diverse population constantly coming in and out of the city through my full time job at the Wynn Resort. It was through these frequent daily interactions that I became interested in human behavior and decided to follow my curiosity by enrolling at College of Southern
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It is with this model in mind that I have prepared myself for graduate psychology training. I was offered the only student volunteer position at Volunteers of Medicine of Southern Nevada, a medical volunteer clinic seeking integrate mental and behavioral health services. I created and administered a survey for patients assessing for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, PTSD, and alcohol dependency. Using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder GAD-7, the Patient Stress Questionnaire PSQ-9, and the DSM-V criteria for diagnosing PTSD and alcohol dependency, I created an assessment tool that patients’ primary care physician now administer to assess patients’ mental health status. I accrued further experience through my undergraduate internship at The PRACTICE, a campus-based community mental health clinic. I gained valuable first hand experience observing and participating in multidisciplinary case rounds, attending didactic trainings covering a array of topics in psychology (see my CV for further information), and assisting with a variety of administrative tasks including patient scheduling and billing. At the end of my internship I presented a research project, a literature review about medical marijuana’s potential uses within the psychology profession. I am also working
It is with this model in mind that I have prepared myself for graduate psychology training. I was offered the only student volunteer position at Volunteers of Medicine of Southern Nevada, a medical volunteer clinic seeking integrate mental and behavioral health services. I created and administered a survey for patients assessing for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, PTSD, and alcohol dependency. Using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder GAD-7, the Patient Stress Questionnaire PSQ-9, and the DSM-V criteria for diagnosing PTSD and alcohol dependency, I created an assessment tool that patients’ primary care physician now administer to assess patients’ mental health status. I accrued further experience through my undergraduate internship at The PRACTICE, a campus-based community mental health clinic. I gained valuable first hand experience observing and participating in multidisciplinary case rounds, attending didactic trainings covering a array of topics in psychology (see my CV for further information), and assisting with a variety of administrative tasks including patient scheduling and billing. At the end of my internship I presented a research project, a literature review about medical marijuana’s potential uses within the psychology profession. I am also working