Alan Dean Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica

• Therapist for the Home Team (a field-based therapy and case management team for clients housed through OPCC)• Conducted therapy sessions on site, as well as in the field and in client homes.• Co-created and co-facilitated mindfulness group at Daybreak Shelter focusing on psychoeducation about, and implementation of, mindfulness techniques and practice.• Facilitated men’s process group at Turning Point shelter.• Consulted with Department of Child and Family Services as necessary.• Made reports to Adult Protective Services as necessary.• Provided crisis counseling for clients as necessary.• Consulted with case managers and other organizations to provide clients with wrap around care.• Conducted intake assessments, created treatment plans, wrote progress notes, and created clinical files for clients.• Familiar with Clinitrak electronic filing system.• Attended trainings for DMH paperwork, hoarding, and MBSR

Los Angeles

• Co-facilitated substance abuse groups following harm reduction and stages of change models which utilized both psychoeducation and process.• Co-facilitated men’s process groups.• Facilitated mindfulness meditation group• Made reports to Department of Child and Family services as necessary.

Santa Monica

• Social and behavioral interventionist for children with developmental disabilities.• Worked with parents to establish long and short term goals, which can be worked on bothwith the interventionist and while they are not present.• Assessed developmental stage and necessary areas to focus help on.• Communicate with and teach children appropriate social behaviors.• Helped children learn to interact appropriately in their environment using play therapy.• Wrote progress notes and created clinical files for clients.

• Designing, carrying out studies, and analyzing studies focusing on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders• Presented as 1st author on multiple posters at a national conference (Society for Neuroscience).• Setting and achieving goals in a timely fashion.• Demonstrate group skills and priority setting by simultaneously working with multiplepersons and individually on separate projects.• Data entry and analysis experience using Excel and SPSS. PUBLICATIONS A. Dean; B. Smith; M. Tewodros; D. J. Sheehan; N. Idrus; J. Thomas, 2010. Donepezil hydrochloride attenuates hyperactivity associated with developmental ethanol exposure in rats. Society for Neuroscience, November 13, Page 18 D. J. Sheehan*; B. Smith; A. Dean*; N. Idrus; J. Thomas, 2010. Donepezil administration attenuates motor incoordination in rats exposed to ethanol during development. Society for Neuroscience, November 16, Page 44

Master'S Degree, Marriage And Family Therapy/Counseling

Emphasis on conceptualizing and working with multicultural and urban populations.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology