Ahmed Alkhalaf

Biography

He is working in the Faculty of Medicine, Al-Baha University as Assistant Professor of Behavioural Sciences & Consultant of Clinical Psychology. He is interested in clinical and health psychology for adolescents and adults. He received Master of Science (MSc) in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology from Wales University (UK) & He obtained a Ph.D. in clinical health psychology from the University of Plymouth (UK). He had served as a Psychologist to Alamal Complex for Mental Health inpatient treatment teams, providing a broad range of behavioral health services to adult inpatients. Those services had included treatments for depression, phobias, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, Anxiety disorder, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder and addiction for four years (Psychiatry wards and addiction wards. He utilizes a variety of psychology intervention to treat patients including cognitive behavioral therapy and positive psychotherapy) with adults. He has experience of working in a variety of adult mental health services, from primary to tertiary care (e.g. Traumatic Brain Injuries TBI, Spinal Cord Injury SCI and Stroke CVA). As a clinician, He had a particular interest in Neuropsychological assessment and cognitive behavior therapy for depression and anxiety disorders. I joined the department of psychology as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (Health Psychology) at the University of Plymouth in southern England for two years. He is a chartered Psychologist from the British Psychological Society (BPS). He had an experience in teaching in evidence-based methods of assessing psychological disorders and training in clinical and health psychology.

Research Interest

Psychiatry