Skills

  • Psychologist
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Experience

silvia kamau

Work experience
  • Conducted screening, history taking and adequate documentation of each patient
  • Spearheaded and helped conduct mental health awareness sensitization campaigns in the Mathari slum community as well as providing thorough teaching of important life skills to aid the community in day-to-day activities whilst conducting analysis
  • Conducted individual therapy sessions using interventions like cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused behavioural therapy, behavioural therapy and challenging cognitive distortions among others
  • Support the development and the implementation of reintegration initiatives with families and within local communities, in line with the organization and Government priorities.
  • Conduct psychological assessment using appropriate psychometric tests while designing and drawing appropriate treatment plans for the patients with relevance to the conducted assessment tests
  • Conduct group therapies with individuals battling substance abuse and make recommendations as to how these may be managed/resolved as appropriate.
  • Consult and collaborate with parents/guardians and teachers to support the well-being of students and provide solutions to cases and problems experienced.
  • Conducted family therapies for families to help with increased social support as well as provide them with coping mechanisms as well as appropriate responses for them and their patients on how best to approach, help and support them as well as administering a variety of technical programmes transactions
  • Support the development and the implementation of reintegration initiatives with families and within local communities, in line with the organization’s and Government's priorities.
  • Assist in the analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and the risks they face.
  • Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with persons of concern in the Mathari slums.
  • Assist in planning and monitoring programmes and budgets as well as building office capacity for community-based protection through training and establishing systems for community mobilization and participation of Persons of concern.
  • Ensure follow-ups and retention of all priority clients after therapy and development of other ways to reach a bigger audience and then collect relevant data to determine the working and non-working strategies and how to best improve them for better implementation.
  • Supervised that all psychosocial support is implemented in compliance

silvia kamau

Education
  • I studied at Moi university and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. my research project for my fourth year was titled Effects of Beauty standards on the self-esteem of youth in Roysambu constituency. Among the many courses that I was taught throughout my 4 years course some included:
  • introduction to critical thinking
  • issues in social ethics
  • policy analysis and project management
  • conflict and disaster management
  • introduction to psychology
  • abnormal psychology
  • industrial and organizational psychology
  • planning culture and development
  • qualitative methods
  • experimental psychology
  • introduction to research methods
  • trauma and psychological debriefing
  • research methodology
  • rehabilitation psychology and issues of chemical dependency
  • psychometric tests and measurements
  • ethics inpyschology
  • quantitative methods
  • social statistics.

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