Shiva Rezvan, Ph.D.

Department	Psychology
Title	Associate Professor of Psychology Clinical Coordinator, Master of Science in Clinical Counseling
Background	Licensed Psychologist in Connecticut Ph.D., University of Isfahan M.A., University of Isfahan B.A., Tehran Azad University
Office	Aquinas Hall, Room 113
Phone	(203) 672-6770
Email	srezvan@albertus.edu
Courses	Undergraduate Courses Adolescent Psychology Counseling Techniques Cognitive Psychology Self-Empowerment and Social Change Personality Graduate Courses Counseling Practicum Counseling Techniques Group Dynamics and Counseling Professional, Ethical, and Legal Issues Seminar I & II
Description	Dr. Rezvan an Associate Professor in the psychology department at Albertus Magnus College, where she teaches in the Clinical Counseling, Traditional Undergraduate, Accelerated Psychology Degree, and Human Services programs. She also serves as a Clinical Coordinator in the Clinical Counseling Program. She builds and maintains relationships with suitable placement sites and collaborate with master’s-level clinical counseling students and internship supervisors to ensure students' internships are clinically appropriate and meet required training hours and responsibilities. Watching students grow professionally and serve the community motivates her greatly. One of her passions is studying unconscious and automatic mental processes, such as biases and unconscious goals, and exploring ways to protect human dignity and rights. Therefore, she created the Self-Empowerment and Social Change course to deepen students’ understanding of the vital role that implicit biases and other unconscious processes play in the clinical field, social interactions, leadership, and daily life. In developing the course, she is grateful for the consultation with Dr. John Bargh, Professor Emeritus at Yale University, who has taught the course for nearly two decades. The four pillars of Dominican tradition (Study, Prayer, Community, and Service) have guided her throughout her work at Albertus. One example of this is her involvement with the Albertus Magnus College Social Justice Panel. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), serves as a board member of the Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA), and chairs the CPA Social Justice Committee. Additionally, she is part of the CPA Public Education and Convention team. Dr. Rezvan is a licensed psychologist in Connecticut and has provided psychotherapy for more than twenty years. She served on a research team at Yale University focused on unconscious processes, including goals and motivations that operate without awareness. Her research interests have grown through observing and working with clients, including unconscious goals and motives and their influence on behaviors, unintended goal-dependent automaticity, implicit biases and their manifestations in judgments and decision-making, preconscious and post-conscious automaticity; motivational and structural theories of ruminative thoughts; decision-making involving unconscious processes; and the implicit aspects of Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Publications	Rezvan, S., Bahrami, F., & Abedi, mohamadreza. (2005).The effect of emotion regulation on rumination and happiness of Esfahan University students, Journal of Psychiatric and Clinical Psychology Quarterly, 12 (3), 251-257. Bahrami, F., Rezvan,S. (2005). Investigating the relationship between academic achievement motivation and school characteristics in schoolgirls and schoolboys in the city of Isfahan, the Jouranl of Educational and Psychological Research in Isfahan University, 2(2), 61-72. Bahrami, F., Rezvan, S. (2006). A comparison between anxious thoughts and metacognitive beliefs in students with generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Psychiatric and Clinical Psychology Quarterly, 13(3), 249-255. Rezvan,S, Ahmady,A, Abedi,M.R.(2006).The effect of metacognition on academic achievement and happiness of the conditional students in Esfahan University, Counseling Psychology Quarterly,Vol.16,415-428. Rezvan,S, Baghban,I, Bahrami,F, Abedi,M.R. (2008).A comparison of cognitive behavior therapy with interpersonal and cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, Counseling Psychology Quarterly,Vol.21,309-321. Rezvan, S., Bahrami, F. Abedi, M.R., MacLeod, C., Neshat Doost, H.T., Ghasemi, V. (2012). Attachment insecurity as a predictor of OC symptoms in female children, Journal of Counseling Psychology Quarterly,25,403-415. Rezvan, S., Bahrami, F. Abedi, M.R., MacLeod, C., Neshat Doost, H.T., Ghasemi, V. (2013). A preliminary study on the effects of attachment-based intervention on pediatric OCD, Journal of Preventive medicine,4,78-87.