Experience

University of Oregon College of Education
• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Graduate Student, M.S. Prevention Science

  • Aug 2022 - Present


Alyssa C. Callender - Education and Parenting Consultant

• Owner

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  United States I am dedicated to social-emotional learning for children and adults to foster a culture of empathetic and compassionate communication and interaction. As a researcher, I aim to investigate the physiology of perpetration beginning with military populations pre-and-post-training. I help to connect disconnected academics, researchers, leaders, and representatives with outlier and vulnerable populations. • Educational consultation and instruction for general and special topics, ranging from… Show more I am dedicated to social-emotional learning for children and adults to foster a culture of empathetic and compassionate communication and interaction. As a researcher, I aim to investigate the physiology of perpetration beginning with military populations pre-and-post-training. I help to connect disconnected academics, researchers, leaders, and representatives with outlier and vulnerable populations. • Educational consultation and instruction for general and special topics, ranging from undergraduate to graduate level (e.g., statistics for social sciences, Bayes’ Theorem). • Parenting consultation for parents with disabilities – how to interact with children using social-emotional learning techniques and promotion of emotional intelligence. • Consultation services for fMRI and behavioral research focused on vulnerable populations with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Martino’s Center, Harvard University; University of British Columbia). • User Experience consultant and programmer for study on attention bias and remote stress mitigation techniques (Miller Lab, California State University, Long Beach). Show less



California State University, Long Beach

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Assistant - Stress Psychology

  • Feb 2020 - Aug 2022

• Senior Research Assistant

  • Feb 2020 - Aug 2022

  • Project Management: data management and cleaning for a large, long-term study on threat bias, attention, and stress during COVID-19. • Project Management: Eprime 3.0/EprimeGo programming of remote interventions to mitigate stress and attenuate response to threatening information during COVID-19. • IT Support during running of participants • Staff training and project management to build research team and expand available staff for a study managing over 200 participants; training… Show more • Project Management: data management and cleaning for a large, long-term study on threat bias, attention, and stress during COVID-19. • Project Management: Eprime 3.0/EprimeGo programming of remote interventions to mitigate stress and attenuate response to threatening information during COVID-19. • IT Support during running of participants • Staff training and project management to build research team and expand available staff for a study managing over 200 participants; training focused on data management, analysis, interpretation, changes necessary. Training is ongoing. • Established protocol for data management during a large study. • Outstanding Research Assistant May 2021. • Other experience/ skills: data dictionary, recruitment/ running participants, IRB protocol/ drafting (Risks and Mitigations), writing for publication; CITI training for human and animal research.



PTSD Foundation Of America

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Family Outreach Coordinator

  • Oct 2018 - Jan 2021

  California, United States



Mindful Nurturance Services

• Owner/ Health Support – Adult & Pediatric

  • Jun 2009 - Jan 2021

  California, United States