MERVE GÖZÜM
Avrupa Öğrenciler Temsilcisi Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi ve Londra Temsilcisi
Education
Feb 2020 – present
University College of London
PG Cert
Sept 2018 – Oct 2020
Kings College London
MSc Health Psychology
Sept 2013 - June 2016
Goldsmiths College, University Of London
Addictive Behaviours, Psychopathology, Psychology of the Arts and Aesthetics, Topics in Neuropsychology, Interpersonal Self
BSc Psychology - Upper second
Sept 2011 - June 2013
Chadwell Heath Academy, Sixth Form
A-levels (A-C)
Turkish, Mathematics, Religious Studies & Biology
Sept 2006 - June 2011
Chadwell Heath Academy
GCSEs (A*- C)
All subjects
Work experience
February 2020 - Current
Haringey IAPT service
Trainee PWP
Training contract
Working with common mental health problems (i.e. depression, anxiety and panic attacks)
Adapting evidence-based resources (i.e CBT based principles) to treatment
January 2019 – April 2019
Guys Cancer Centre – Skin Unit
Student placement
Observing multidisciplinary health clinics (e.g Radiotherapy clinics, discussion therapy groups)
Shadowing clinical psychologists and specialist nurses and doctors
Designing and following through a project on promoting a specialist service for patients with Graft-versus-host-disease
October 2017 – January 2020
GLENHOLME Supported Living
Dual Diagnosis Support Worker
Provide practical and emotional support to service users through a person-centred approach.
Schedule regular client meetings and carry out goal orientated work.
Project management of cliental audits; monitoring the used treatment model.
Co-facilitate dual diagnosis group therapy sessions
November 2016 – August 2017
Moodist Psychiatry Hospital (Turkey)
Assistant psychologist (Honorary)
Participated in psychoeducation for substance abuses, co-occurring mental health disorders and psycho-education on mental health diagnosis, for patients and carers.
Observed and assisted in managing psychiatric crises of patients and challenging behaviour
Collaborated in the research of gambling addiction treatment manual.
August 2015 – November 2016
Venkat Health Centre
Receptionist
Trained in chaperoning, fire Safety, information governance, principles of health and safety, safeguarding children and adults.
Completed administrative tasks including making/cancelling appointments, registering patients and prescription distribution.
Completed appropriate documentation and system entry.
Research experience
Co-facilitator of focus group for a postgraduate doctorate research for suicidal patients called “Talk about it”. I was note taking throughout the interviews and interpreting key factors according to manual. Attending meetings with researcher. Assisted with presentation.
Undergraduate dissertation; research on “The interaction between the positivity effect, mood and self-perception”. Recruiting participants through GP service and administrating questionnaires alongside regulating a cognitive memory test. Collecting data and input into SPSS. Performing statistical analysis and thesis write up.
Research Training
Dec 2018
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Jan 2019
Good Clinical Practice
Relevant Publication
Charlton, R.A., Gozum, M., Izzard, S. The effect of individual differences on the positivity effect across the lifespan. Submitted presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Aging and Cognition, April 2019, Zurich, Switzerland
Skills/ Achievements
Elected senior student at Chadwell Heath Academy Sixth Form
Community scout award - fundraising for Macmillan
Bilingual in Turkish and English
GEM award – For research and project achievement at Glenholme
SPSS - Group Therapy facilitator - Research - Work with substance users - Case management - Community Outreach - Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel) – Qualtrics