Shabnam Javdani, Ph.D is a clinical and community psychologist who examines and intervenes in the health and mental health disparities created by persistent inequality. Javdani completed her doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012, and completed an APA-approved clinical internship in the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago prior to coming to NYU.
The overarching goal of her scholarship is to understand and reduce the development of inequality-related mental health and legal problems and study community and institutional responses to these complex challenges. Javdani's research hopes to advance our understanding of people in context, and to identify meaningful individual- and ecological-level solutions.
To read more about Dr. Javdani's research team (RISE - Researching Inequity and Society Ecologically), visit https://wp.nyu.edu/rise/about-rise/
If you are interested in her publications, visit https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/shabnam-javdani
In this episode, we cover her job right out of undergrad, the reasons she pursued a Ph.D in clinical and community psych (and compare this degree to social work), how she builds partnerships with community members, why she built her advocacy program, ROSES, how she approaches systems-change in the face of immense pushback, and much more. Shabnam also provides practical advice during the live audience Q&A, such as how to cultivate a dream-based over a fear-based mindset post-college.
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Music by: Adam Fine
