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School Psychology
Terry Diamanduros, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: School Psychoology
Georgia Southern University
Academic Degrees:
Ph.D., 2004, New York University, New York, NY, School Psychology
M.A., 1991, New York University, New York, N.Y., Educational Psychology
B.S., 1982, Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., Microbiology
A.S, 1980, University of South Carolina-Lancaster , Lancaster, S.C., Biological Sciences
Certification/Honors/Awards:
2000
New York State Certification in School Psychology
1996, 1997
Nominee for the American Psychological Foundation's Graduate Research Scholarship in Psychology, New York University
1995
Viola Bernard Research Award
Dept. of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University
1980-1982
Delta Sigma Nu Honor Society, Alpha Epsilon, Dean’s List
Clemson University
1978-1980
Tom Mangum Scholarship Award, Dean’s List
University of South Carolina-Lancaster
Clinical and School Experiences:
1994-2004
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, NY, NY
1999-2004
Neurodevelopmentalm Examiner: Neurodevelopmental assessment of HIV positive and HIV-negative children ranging from infancy to early adulthood.
1999-2002
Group Psychotherapist: Provided group psychotherapy for children infected with HIV or affected by HIV in the Special Needs Clinic
2000
Psychotherapist: Provided psychotherapy and evaluations for abused children/adolescents and their families at the Family Center.
1998-1999
Child Psychology Intern: Full-time child track APA-approved internship. Clinical training in neuropsychological assessment of children; child/adolescent, and adult diagnostic evaluations; individual child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapy; family therapy; parent training; group psychotherapy for preschooler/elementary aged children infected with or affected by HIV.
1997-1998
Group Psychotherapist: Provided short-term group psychotherapy in a high school for adolescent girls with histories of sexual and physical assault and diagnosed with PTSD.
1997-1998
Psychology Extern: Extensive externship training at the Family Center.
1994-1996
Provided play therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and psychodynamic therapy for abused children and adolescents; group psychotherapy for sexually abused boys, adult therapy, psychoeducational evaluations.
1999-2001
Educational Records Bureau, New York, NY
Examiner: Cognitive assessment of preschoolers applying to independent New York City schools.
1997-98 & 1994
Prep for Prep, New York, NY
Examiner: Cognitive assessment of gifted minority students applying for admissions into the Prep for Prep program and private school placement.
Lenox Hill Head Start/Day Care Programs, New York, NY
1996-1997
Consultant: Consulted with Social Services staff, teachers, and parents regarding children with special needs and provided perceptual assessment of preschoolers.
1993-1994
Psychology Extern: Externship training in ethnically diverse preschool setting. Consulted with teachers and staff, conducted psychological evaluations, play therapy, adult therapy with parents, parent counseling, psychoeducation, classroom observations and interventions such as behavioral management.
1992-1993
The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, New York, NY
Psychology Extern: Provided mental health consultation in private Jewish school. Worked with various aged children some of whom recently immigrated from Israel and Russia. Consulted with teachers and parents, classroom observations and direct intervention in the classroom, anger-control management for latency-aged boy, co-led group for pre-adolescent girls.
1991-1992
Public School 109, District 4, New York, NY
Psychology Extern: Worked with ethnically diverse population of children living in East Harlem. Conducted classroom observations, provided direct intervention with individual elementary-aged children, led social skills group for adolescents, consulted with teachers regarding classroom behavior problems.
Teaching/Supervising:
2004
Georgia Southern
University, Statesboro, GA
Temporary Assistant
Professor, School Psychology Program
Department of
Leadership, Technology, and Human Development
Courses: ESPY 8131
Individual Intellectual Assessment, ESPY 8132 Advanced Intellectual
Assessment, ESPY 8738 School Psychology Internship I, ESPY 8839
Action Research, ESPY 8890 Directed Individual Study
1994-1995
New York
University, New York, NY
Teaching Fellow:
Mental Health Consultation in Schools Course, School Psychology
ProgramDepartment of Applied Psychology
Research Experiences:
Dissertation, “Traumatic Stress Symptomatology in Sexually Abused Boys” Funded by Viola Bernard Research Award granted by Dept. of Child Psychiatry at Columbia University/NY State Psychiatric Institute.
1995-2000
New York
Presbyterian Hospital/NY State Psychiatric Institute, New
York, NY
Research Assistant:
Research study designed to provide clinical psychological services
to adolescent mothers and their infants in the home.
Group
Psychotherapist:
Clinical treatment study of PTSD symptoms in traumatized adolescent
girls. Group psychotherapy in the school following treatment
protocol.
Research Assistant:
Research study investigating gender role behaviors and sexual
behaviors in sexually abused boys. Trained in Gender-Role Assessment
Schedule-Child Version (GRAS-C)
1991-1994
New York University,
New York,
NY
Research Assistant:
Cross-cultural studies investigating differences in the facial
expressions of one-year-old infants from the United States, Japan,
and China. Trained and certified in Paul Ekman's Facial Action
Coding System (FACS). Trained in Rosenberg & Oster's Baby FACS.
1988-1991
St.
Luke's/Roosevelt Medical Center, New York, NY
Research Specialist:
Neuroscience research project examining the immunological and
neurological responses in animal models of multiple sclerosis.
1984-1988
Medical University
of S.C., Charleston, S.C.
Research Specialist:
Neuroscience research project examining the immunological and
neurological responses in animal models of multiple sclerosis and
the role of monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of Experimental
Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis.
Presentations: Colloquiums:
2004, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, Invited Lecturer: Colloquium presentation “Traumatic Stress in Sexually Abused Boys”
1996, Baruch College, City University of NY (CUNY), New York, NY, Guest Lecturer: Class lecture on child sexual abuse in boys
Poster Presentation:
Oster, H., Ujie, T., Meng, A., Camras, L., Campos, J., Campos, R., Neugebauer, A., Diamanduros, T., and Rigney, L. (1994). Twelve-month-old infants' emotional responses to fear vs. anger-eliciting situations. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris.
Publications:
Diamanduros, T.D. (2004). Traumatic stress symptomatology in sexually abused boys. Dissertation Abstracts International, (UMI 3124944)
Diamanduros, T. & Cosentino, C. (NYU, Psychoeducation Center, Dept. of Applied Psychology, PCR6-98-1). Understanding childhood trauma and sexual abuse in the case of a male adolescent: An integration of attachment theory, developmental psychopathology, and trauma theory.
Hashim, G.A., Vandenbark, A.A., Gold, D.P., Diamanduros, T., & Offner, H. (1991). T cell lines specific for an immunodominant epitope of human basic protein defines an encephalitogenic determinant for experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis-resistant Lou/M rats. Journal of Immunology, 146 (2): 515-520.
Hashim, G., Vandenbark, A., Galang, A., Diamanduros, T., Carvalho, E., Srinivasna, J., Jones, R., Vainiene, M., Morrison, W., and Offner, H. (1990). Antibodies specific for VB8 receptor peptide suppress experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Journal of Immunology, 144 (12), 4621-4627.
Hashim, G., Offner, H., Galang, A., Diamanduros, T., Carvalho, E., Scrinivasna, J., Vainiene, M., and Vanderbark, A. (1990). Abstract Transactions of the American Society for Neurochemistry, 21 (1), 290.
Last updated: August 23, 2007