Mental Health Assistant

Epiphany Devon Grisbaum

Curriculum Vitae

Permanent Residence Current Residence

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Education:

Master of Arts Expected May 2021

Columbia University

G.P.A.: 3.822

Major: Clinical Psychology: Concentration in Quantitative Studies

School: Teachers College, Columbia University

Bachelor of Arts May 2019

Vanderbilt University

G.P.A.: 3.016

Majors: Psychology; Medicine, Heath, and Society

School: College of Arts & Sciences

Honors and Awards:

2018-2019 “Be an Anchor” Leadership Member

2016-2019 SEC Academic Honor Roll

Research Experience:

May 2020 – Present Student Research Assistant and Training Coordinator

Resilience Center for Veterans and Families

Teachers College—Columbia University, New York, NY

Contributed to efforts related to the national expansion of ETS Sponsorship—peer-based mentorship for Veterans within transition from life in the military back to civilian life. Oversaw the timely and efficacious scheduling and training of volunteers in the role of Training Coordinator. Aided in the revision of training manuals to better adapt the training to the online platform Zoom, while improving the quality of the training as the program grew. Oversaw the placement of several servicemembers with a sponsor in the role of Transition Coordinator.

Faculty Advisors: Joseph Geraci, Ph.D., George Bonanno, Ph.D.

September 2019 – Present Student Research Assistant

Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab

Teachers College—Columbia University, New York, NY

Contributed to the ‘Flexibility in Coping and Emotion Regulation’ project by conducting extensive literature reviews and running participants. Utilized resultant data sets to isolate variables and run analyses in SPSS. Helped modify pre-existing protocols in order to suitably adapt them to a virtual format to continue research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contributed to the approved Institutional Review Board documents submitted for allowance to conduct the study.

Faculty Advisors: George Bonanno, Ph.D.

September 2019 – Present Student Research Assistant

Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab

Teachers College—Columbia University, New York, NY

Coded video footage of subjects interviewed in an emergency room to understand how facial actions show positive and negative emotion. Was trained and certified in the Paul Ekman Facial Action Coding System in order to properly code these videos for research purposes.

Faculty Advisors: George Bonanno, Ph.D.

January 2018 – June 2018 Undergraduate Research Assistant

Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

Coded manuscripts from a humanities research project to elucidate various health consequences of attending school during desegregation in the Middle Tennessee Area. Reviewed interview data and helped write a paper which summarized the project’s key findings.

Faculty Advisor: David Schlundt, Ph.D.

Research Interests:

- The impact of exercise on PTSD in Veterans

- Improvement of PTSD treatment

- Improved mental health services for newly transitioned Veterans

- Intervention and prevention of suicide in Veterans

Relevant Coursework:

General Psychology; Human Biology; Developmental Psychology; Positive Psychology; Fundamentals of Management; Quantitative Methods; Brain Damage and Cognition; Financial Accounting; Principles of Experimental Design; Cognitive Psychology; Fundamentals of Marketing; American Medicine and the World; Medicine and Literature; Health Psychology; Entrepreneurship: Business Planning; Corporate Strategy; Autism in Context; Community Health Research; Social Psychology; Business Management; Social Dimensions of Health and Illness; Designing Healthy Publics; Human Memory; Death and Dying in America; Abnormal Psychology; Geriatric Mental Health; Evolution of Freud’s Theories; Probability and Statistical Inference; Comparative Psychotherapies; Military Psychology; Research Methods: Clinical Psychology; Personality and Behavior Change; Positive Psychology; Applied Regression Analysis

University/Extracurricular Involvement:

September 2020 – Present Group Facilitator, ETS Sponsorship

August 2018 – May 2019 Team Captain, Varsity Cross Country and Track Teams, Vanderbilt University

June 2017 – August 2017 Service Project, Cape Town, South Africa, Vanderbilt University

January 2017 – May 2019 Mental Health and Wellness Committee, Kappa Delta Sorority, Vanderbilt University

January 2017 – May 2019 Member Kappa Delta Sorority, Vanderbilt University

August 2015 – May 2019 Varsity Athlete, Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track, Vanderbilt University

Computer Software:

Microsoft Office, SPSS, R

Work Experience:

Summers 2019, 2020 Server

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Ocean City, NJ

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