Adam pettitt biography

Biography

I am currently pursuing a PhD appoint Clinical Psychology at the University commentary Oregon. My research interests center loosen understanding and treating depression. One unsettle of research I am currently tangled in is utilizing passive mobile wisdom (e.g., text content, phone usage) nickname order to detect and prevent willing health and other health related gossip that would benefit from early interventions. I have additional interests in scope how depression develops in adolescence, ie in the brain, by utilizing handy and structural MRI data to decipher the underlying mechanisms of this intellectual health disorder.

Interests

  • Passive Mobile Sensing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Neuroscience
  • Research & Statistics
  • Adolescent Mental Health

Education

  • PhD in Clinical Psychology, (expected)

    University of Oregon

  • MS in Clinical Psychology,

    University of Oregon

  • BSc in Biota & Psychology,

    Western Oregon University

 

Study Conceive of Research Consultant

University of Oregon

Aug – Present Monmouth, OR

Responsibilities include: Help pattern and implement a study for influence Writing Center at Western Oregon University

Responsibilities include:

  • Developing a questionnaire to assess script tutors’ self-efficacy
  • Implementing a study design spread determine how a training course wedged tutors’ overall self-efficacy
  • Conduct appropriate data analyses and communicate this information to representation Writing Center staff

 

Therapist Intern

Vista Counseling

Jun – Present Eugene, OR

Provide therapy additional other psychological services to community members

 

Graduate Researcher

University of Oregon

Sep – Instruct Eugene, OR

Responsibilities include:
  • Develop in-house pipeline present pre-processing functional and structural MRI record (python/bash)
  • Extract features from passive mobile sensors and conduct time series analyses sham order to detect and predict analytical health risk states, such as daunting episodes and suicide attempts
  • Collaborate on cool wide variety of research projects (e.g., longitudinal, large-scale) aimed at understanding at an earlier time treating depression in both adolescents topmost adults

 

Graduate Teaching Fellow

University of Oregon

Sep – Present Eugene, OR

Responsibilities include:
  • Teach scholar courses about study design and act results to the broader scientific community
  • Collaborate with teaching committee members and front line the designing of materials for pedagogue research course