Childrens Resource Group

CHILDREN'S RESOURCE GROUP
9106 NORTH MERIDIAN STREET, SUITE 100
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46260
PHONE: (317) 575-9111 · FAX: (317) 571-4470

Education

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, 2001, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, APA Approved Program.

Clinical Psychology Residency, Completed June 30, 2001, University of Texas, Houston Health Sciences Center, APA Accredited Internship.

M.A. in Clinical Psychology, 1998, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, Approved Program.

B.A. in Psychology, 1993, Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky.

Licensure

Licensed Psychologist in Indiana, 2002.

Endorsed as a Health Service Provider in Psychology (HSPP) in Indiana, 2002.

Clinical and Teaching Experience

June 2004 to Present: Clinical Psychologist, Children’s Resource Group, Indianapolis, IN. Outpatient mental health assessment and treatment for children, adolescents, and adults in a model focusing on comprehensive treatment planning and care. Focus is on diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, childhood behavior disorders, learning disorders, pervasive developmental problems, and social/adjustment issues. Duties include:

• Psychological assessments, testing, treatment planning.
• Provision of individual, group, and couple/family therapy.
• Consultation with parents of children with psychiatric disorders.
• Coordination with medical providers, schools, and community resources.
• Presentations in community and professional contexts.

August 2003 to May 2004: Visiting Professor of Psychology, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky. Georgetown College is a private liberal arts institution with emphasis in academic excellence. Duties included:

• Teaching 12-13 hours of courses per semester in General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Assessment and Appraisal, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Field Work, Health Psychology, and Personality Theory.
• Providing students with effective guidance and mentorship to assist them with successfully managing class work, navigating potential career options, and enhancing their personal and professional development through research, honors projects, and community involvement.
• Development of professional research with students to enhance their training and preparation for professional employment and graduate studies.

October 2001 to August 2003: Staff Psychologist/Post-Doctoral Resident, LifeSpring Mental Health Services, Jeffersonville, Indiana. LifeSpring is a community mental health center that provides multidisciplinary services to underserved populations across 6 counties in southern Indiana. Duties included:

• Provision of over 1500 hours of individual and family therapy to adults, adolescents, and children exhibiting severe psychopathology.
• Provision of consultation services to psychiatrists, group home supervisors, case managers, and other staff.
• Development and provision of formal trainings and seminars to therapists and students.
• Provision of clinical and research supervision to psychology practicum students and therapists.
• Acute crisis intervention.
• Intakes and assessments.
• Provision of case management services for clients, as needed.
• Community outreach services.
• Coordination of services with community agencies, schools, and courts.

January 2001 to June 2001: University of Texas – Houston Health Sciences Center, Harris County Psychiatric Center – APA Approved Clinical Psychology Internship. This 6-month, 1300-hour inpatient rotation included the delivery of clinical services to children, adolescents, and adults at an acute care hospital. Duties also included program evaluation and child psychometric research. All services and consultations were provided within the context of a multidisciplinary team. Duties included:

• Psychological and neuropsychological assessments.
• Individual and group therapy.
• Individual and group supervision meetings.
• Delivery of intermediate supervision to psychology graduate students.
• Consultation with attending/resident psychiatrists.
• Weekly seminars focused on diverse issues related to clinical psychology and psychiatry.
• Program evaluation and psychometric research (see research experience section).

July 2000 to December 2000: University of Texas – Houston Health Sciences Center, Mental Sciences Institute – APA Approved Clinical Psychology Internship. This 6-month, 1300-hour outpatient rotation involved the delivery of clinical services to adults, adolescents, and children in an outpatient psychiatric setting. Duties also included psychotherapy outcome research for the treatment of GAD in the elderly, and program evaluation research. All services and consultations were provided within the context of multidisciplinary teams. Overall duties included:

• Individual, family, and group therapy.
• Psychological and neuropsychological assessments.
• Individual and group supervision meetings.
• Weekly seminars focused on broad issues related to clinical psychology and psychiatry.
• Psychotherapy outcome and program evaluation research (see research experience section).
• Collaborative case presentations.

July 1995 to July 1998: University of Louisville Psychological Services Center. This 3 year practicum involved both psychological assessment and therapy with a wide range of clients presenting to this outpatient, university based clinic. Overall duties included the following:

• Individual therapy.
• Full psychological assessments.
• Providing intermediate supervision to junior therapists.

August 1997 to July 1998: Clinical Assistant. This 1-year practicum involved clinical and administrative duties necessary for operation of the Psychological Services Center at the University of Louisville as well as assisting clinical supervisors in coordinating work of the clinical teams. Duties included:

• Intake assessments.
• Quality assurance/improvement.
• Individual, group, and peer supervision.
• Functioning as team leader for therapists on the clinical team. This involved intermediate supervision of therapists regarding clinical and administrative issues.
• Referrals of clients to appropriate community agencies for continued care.
• Creation and management of the Center's database for client data, research data, and financial reconciliation.
• Training of clinic staff in the use of databases and computer software.
• Community outreach activities.

August 1995 to May 1996Psychological Assistant. This 1-year practicum involved conducting full psychological assessments for inpatient clients exhibiting severe psychopathology at the University of Louisville Hospital. Duties included:

• Full psychological assessments of inpatients.
• Coordination with inpatient staff.
• Providing recommendations to psychiatric staff regarding treatment and case management issues for clients.

August 1994 to July 1995: Psychology Staff, Hazelwood Center ICF/MR. Supervisor for this practicum was Rodney Young, Psy.D. This 1-year practicum involved working with severely and profoundly mentally disabled individuals in an inpatient, intensive care facility. Duties included:

• Direct client care including development, implementation, and evaluation of behavior modification programs and training of unit staff.

January 1992 to May 1992: Undergraduate Psychological Internship, Maryhurst, Louisville, Kentucky. Duties included:

• Study and development of behavioral protocols in this residential facility for adolescents exhibiting severe behavior problems.

Research Experience

January 2001 to June 2001: Clinical Psychology Internship, Major Research Rotation: University of Texas – Houston Health Sciences Center, Harris County Psychiatric Center. This 6-month rotation involved 260 hours of conducting psychometric and program evaluation research for this psychiatric facility. Research findings were presented to the faculty of the UT Medical School in June 2001. Projects included:

• Investigating defensive response styles of children on objective, self-report personality measures.
• Investigating the effectiveness of inpatient treatment outcomes for children and adolescents hospitalized at the facility.
• Investigating cognitive styles of children and adolescents with severe mental illness.

January 2001 to June 2001: Clinical Psychology Internship, Major Research Rotation: University of Texas – Houston Health Sciences Center, Mental Sciences Institute/Harris County Psychiatric Center. This 6-month rotation involved 280 hours of conducting program evaluation research for the psychiatric facility. Findings regarding program evaluation were also presented to the faculty of the UT Medical School in December 2000. Specific research included:

• Investigation of factors related to early psychiatric hospital re-admission in adult patients. Findings were presented at the convention for the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, 2001.

July 2000 to December 2000: Clinical Psychology Internship, Research Rotation: University of Texas – Houston Health Sciences Center, Mental Sciences Institute. This 6-month rotation involved 150 hours of psychotherapy outcome research concerning the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in an elderly population with a new cognitive-behavioral protocol.

July 1995 to July 1997: Research Assistant. This 2-year placement involved an average of 20 hours per week and focused primarily in assisting with the management of ongoing research projects involving clinical and sub-clinical anxiety. Duties included:

• Supervising the work of graduates and undergraduates involved in the research team.
• Coordinating research participants with graduate students for assessments.
• Diagnostic interviews.
• Creating and maintaining research databases.
• Data analysis with SPSS, LISREL, and EQS.
• Training new graduate students in assessment and laboratory procedures.
• Assisting in planning and conducting weekly research meetings.
• Development of manuscripts for publication and presentation at professional conferences.

August 1994 to July 1998: Clinical Research Team. This extra-curricular activity involved working with Dr. Janet Woodruff-Borden and fellow graduate students in ongoing research studies involving anxiety. Duties included:

• Administration of structured interviews to clients and research participants.
• Creating and maintaining the research databases.
• Collaboration with research supervisor and group members in the development of manuscripts based on research findings for presentation at professional conferences and submission for publication in professional journals.

Additional Clinical Work Experience

July 2001 to September 2001: Staff Psychologist, University of Texas – Houston Health Sciences Center, Harris County Psychiatric Center. This temporary position involved the delivery of clinical services to children and adolescents at an acute care hospital. Duties also included psychometric research on child cognition measures. All services and consultations were provided within the context of multidisciplinary teams. Overall duties included:

• Psychological and neuropsychological assessments.
• Group therapy.
• Intermediate training of medical students and residents.
• Individual and group supervision meetings.
• Psychometric research involving the validity of child cognition measures.

September 1998 to June 2000: Staff Therapist, LifeSpring Mental Health Services, Jeffersonville, Indiana. LifeSpring is a community mental health agency that provides multidisciplinary services to underserved populations across 6 counties in southern Indiana. Duties included:

• 1,135 hours of providing individual, couple, family, and group therapy to adults, adolescents, and children exhibiting severe psychopathology.
• 500 hours of case management services for clients.
• Conducting intakes and assessments.
• Community outreach services.
• Coordination of services with community agencies and schools.

Publications

Woodruff-Borden, J., Brothers, A.J., & Lister, S. (2001). Self-focused attention: Commonalities across psychopathologies and predictors. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychology, 29, 169-178.

Woodruff-Borden, J., Jeffery, S.E., Bourland, S.L., Brothers, A.J., & Albano, A.M. (2000). Patient self-report in the assessment of panic disorder: Comparison with interview-derived clinician ratings. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 188, 308-310.

Professional Presentations

Brothers, A.J., Lachar, D., Bailley, S., & Hopko, D. (2001). An investigation of factors associated with early psychiatric hospital readmission. Presented at the annual convention for the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, 2001. Also presented at the Mental Sciences Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical School, Houston Health Science Center, 2000.

Stanley, M.A., Hopko, D., Diefenbach, G., Bourland, S., & Brothers, A (2001). Treating GAD in older primary care patients. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, 2001.

Mills, S., Brothers, A.J., & Woodruff-Borden, J. (2000). Self-focused attention, anxiety, and avoidance. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, 2000.

Roblek, T., Jeffery, S., Brothers, A.J., & Woodruff-Borden, J. (2000). Dysfunctional Attitudes, stressful life events, and their role in anxiety vulnerability. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, 2000.

Woodruff-Borden, J., Albano, A.M., Brothers, A.J., & Bourland, S.L. (1997). NIMH panic questionnaire: Comparison with clinician ratings. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Miami, 1997.

Woodruff-Borden, J., Brothers, A.J., Hoover-Lasch, K., Jeffery, S., & Buttermann, J. (1997). An investigation of suicidality in anxiety disorders: Differences between those who consider suicide and those who do not. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Miami, 1997.

Woodruff-Borden, J., Brothers, A.J., Raffield, T.J., & Fearing, T. (1997). Predictors of suicidality in a clinically anxious sample. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Miami, 1997.

Woodruff-Borden, J., & Brothers, A.J. (1996). Differences in the effective use of different coping strategies with high and low levels of dispositional self-focus. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New York, 1996.

Woodruff-Borden, J., Brothers, A.J., & Logsdon, D. (1996). An assessment of private self-consciousness and its relationship to sub-clinical psychopathology. Presented At the Southeastern Psychological Association, Norfolk, 1996.

Woodruff-Borden, J., & Brothers, A.J. (1995). Self-focused attention, cognitive inflexibility, and coping. Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington D.C., 1995.

Invited Educational and Community Presentations

Brothers, A.J. (2005). Evaluation and Assessment of Bipolar Disorders in Children. Presented at the St. Vincent Marten House, Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in Children and Adolescents, Continued Education Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Brothers, A.J. (2004). Rho Chi counselors: Effective communication and support. Presented to the counselors of Rho Chi, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky.

Brothers, A.J. (2002). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of panic disorder. Presented to the medical and clinical staff of LifeSpring Mental Health Services, Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Brothers, A.J., Lachar, D., Morgan, S.T., Espades, A., & Schomer, O. (2001). Effect of defensiveness on two self-report child adjustment inventories. Presented at the Mental Sciences Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical School, Houston Health Science Center.

Brothers, A.J. & Bret, M.E. (2000). A patient exhibiting neuropsychiatric symptoms after cardiovascular pathology. Presented at the Mental Sciences Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical School, Houston Health Science Center.

Brothers, A.J. & Khaleeq, E. (2000). Pharmacological and behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in a patient with comorbid conditions. Presented at the Mental Sciences Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical School, Houston Health Science Center.

Service

Article Reviewer for Behavior Therapy, 2004.

Leader of Dean’s Ambassadors Discussion Group, Georgetown College, 2003.

Graduate Student Mentor (1995-1996, 1996-1997).

University of Louisville Admissions Committee (1996-1997).

Honors and Awards

Professor of the Month, Awarded by the Phi Mu Sorority, Georgetown College, 2004.

Professor of the Month, Awarded by the Kappa Delta Sorority, Georgetown College, 2004.

Professor of the Month, Awarded by the Sigma Kappa Sorority, Georgetown College, 2004.

Professor of the Month, Awarded by the Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority, Georgetown College, 2004.

Brown’s Scholars “Favorite Professor”, Georgetown College, 2003.

Dean’s Ambassadors Discussion Group Leader, Georgetown College, 2003.

Recipient of Productivity Award, LifeSpring, 2003.

Endorsement as a Health Service Provider in Psychology (HSPP) in Indiana, 2002.

Graduate of Post-Doctoral Residency, LifeSpring, 2002.

Recipient of the Outstanding Therapist Award, LifeSpring, 2002.

Graduate of the University of Texas – Houston, Clinical Psychology Residency, 2001.

Graduate Assistantship at the University of Louisville, 1994-1998.

Psychology Department Commendation for all semesters of graduate training. Summa Cum Laude, Bellarmine College class of 1993.

Recipient of Bellarmine College Academic Scholarship, 1988-1993.

Recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Award, 1993.

Recipient of the Psychology Department Merit Award, 1993.

Dean's list and honors for all semesters of undergraduate classes.

Membership in Delta Epsilon Sigma, Honor Fraternity, 1993.