Curriculum Vitae
ALEXANDRA HANAH COWDEN HINDASH
University of South Florida, Department of Psychology, Mood and Emotion Lab
4202 E. Fowler Ave., PCD 2116, Tampa, FL. 33620 | (813) 974-8450 | hanah@mail.usf.edu
EDUCATION
University of South Tampa
Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology
Major Professor: Jonathon Rottenberg
Mood and Emotion Laboratory
San Diego State University
Master of Arts in Psychology
Master Thesis: Interpretation in Dysphoria
GPA: 3.77
University of Colorado, Boulder
Baccalaureate in Arts
Major Field of study: Psychology
Graduated with distinction for GPA of 3.94
Aug 2013 - present
May 2010
May 2007
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Mood and Emotion Lab
Aug2013 - Present
Graduate Student
Working with archival data while developing research questions and directions for my
dissertation. Current projects include a study on interpretation biases and their relationship to
mood, manuscript examining the course of depressive symptoms over time, and writing an R21
grant examining modification of interpretation biases in relation to symptom changes and
emotional processing in depression for a June submission date.
Center for Health Care Evaluation – VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Jan 2011 – July 2013
Palo Alto and Menlo Park, CA
Research Health Science Specialist
Project Manager for “Dual Diagnosis Inpatients: Telephone Monitoring RCT to Improve
Outcomes.” Conduct baseline and follow up clinical interviews with veteran psychiatry
inpatients, data management and analysis of multiple projects for manuscript publication,
create conference presentations, program computerized substance use assessment tools, train
and coordinate research assistants
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Center for Understanding and Treating Anxiety
Aug 2008 – Jul 2010
San Diego, CA.
Graduate Research Assistant
Running participants through laboratory protocols, designing information processing and mass
screening questionnaire studies, data collection and analysis for conference presentations and
academic articles, script editing for a computerized treatment, stimuli generation and testing
Healy-Bourne Cognitive Psychology Lab
Jan 2007 – Aug 2008
Boulder, CO
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Running participants through computerized cognitive protocols, coding and organizing data,
creating graphs, redesigning the Letter Detection Experiment
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Rothman Center for Pediatric Neuropsychiatry – St. Petersburg, FL
May 2014 – present
Training and administering in psychological assessments of anxiety and behavioral disorders
with children and adolescents. Training and providing in exposure and response prevention
behavioral therapies with anxious children and adolescents.
Mood and Emotion Lab – Tampa, FL
Aug 2013 – present
Administering Structured Clinical Interviews for the DSM-IV-TR, research version to assess
participant eligibility for an ongoing project examining emotional reactivity to daily events.
Center for Health Care Evaluation – VA Palo Alto Health Care
Jan 2011 – Jul 2013
System, Menlo Park, CA
Conducted over 1,600 hours, over 600 hours in a locked psychiatric ward, of clinical
interviews using the Addiction Severity Index, Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview
– both Diagnostic and Symptom Tracking versions, Timeline Follow Back for Alcohol and
Drugs, PTSD Checklist among other measures.
Center for Understanding and Treating Anxiety – San Diego, CA
Aug 2008 – Jul 2010
Worked with clinically anxious clients in experimental treatment clinic. Duties included
recording participant reactions to stressful tasks such as giving a speech, running clients
through experimental protocols, and participating in exposure therapies as audience member
or conversational challenge with clients suffering from social anxiety.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Course Instructor: Behavior Modification – University of South Florida Aug 2014 – Dec 2014
Design course objectives, materials, and lectures, deliver course lecture, create and grade tests
and assignments.
Course Assistant: Drugs and Behavior – University of South Florida
May 2014 – Aug 2014
Assist in administering and grading exams, guest lecture on “Amphetamines and
Psychostimulants” on June 18, 2014. Answer student questions and hold office hour
appointments.
Graduate Teaching Assistant – University of South Florida
Aug 2013 – May 2014
Teaching a laboratory section of Research Methods in Psychology where duties include
lecturing on study design, research paper formatting, basic statistical concepts; grading paper
and homework assignments
Graduate Teaching Assistant - San Diego State University
Fall 2008 – Spring 2010
Assistant to sections of Social Psychology, Drugs and Behavior, and Neuropsychology
Duties included acting as a substitute lecturer; randomizing test questions; grading exams,
papers, and presentations; running review sessions; reviewing exams with students
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant – University of Colorado, Boulder
Fall 2006
Assistant to General Psychology Course
Duties included instructing a recitation section, reviewing lecture material; creating,
administering, and grading quizzes; grading final papers, developing review packets; and
meeting with students upon request or during office hours to answer questions about course
material
SKILLS
Statistical Skills
Trained in using SPSS, SAS, with some experience using R to conduct ANOVA, Regression,
Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Multilevel Modeling, Logistic Growth Curve Modeling, some
experience with Structural Equation Modeling
Assessment Skills
Trained to conduct clinical diagnostic interviews using the Structured Clinical Interview for the
DSM-IV-TR (SCID), Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview – Diagnostic and Symptom
Tracking formats, PTSD Checklist, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV),
Woodcock Johnson third edition test of achievement (WJ-III ACH) and test of cognition (WJ-III
COG), administration of self-report measures
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Workshop Skills training
Curren-Bauer Analytics Multilevel Modeling Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2-6, 2014
Learned to build, test, and run complex hierarchical models with both longitudinal and
cross sectional data. Special section on analysis of intensive longitudinal data (e.g.
experience sampling).
VA Assessment of Suicide Risk and Crisis Management, Menlo Park, CA, Mar 9, 2012
Learned VA protocol to assess for crisis and suicide risk, skills to quickly establish rapport,
maintain contact, and motivational interviewing techniques to move past initial crisis into
problem solving techniques.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Psychological Association 2013-present
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2008-present
Anxiety and Depression Association of America 2008 - 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Cowden Hindash, A. & Amir, N. (2012). Negative interpretation bias in individuals with
depressive symptoms. Cognitive Therapy and Researc, 36, 502-511. doi 10.1007/s10608-0119397-4
Najmi, S., Cowden Hindash, A., & Amir, N. (2010). Executive control of attention in individuals
with obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Depression and Anxiety, 27, 807-812. Doi
10.1002/da.20703
Woodhead, E., Cowden Hindash, A., & Timko C. (2013). Dual diagnosis, mutual-help use, and
outcomes. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 9(2), 158-164.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Panaite, V., Bylsma, L., Cowden Hindash, A., Salomon, K. & Rottenberg, J. (in progress).
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity predicts depression symptom improvement over 30
weeks.
Cowden Hindash, A. & Rottenberg, J. (in progress). Regulating mood rather than emotion:
Clinical importance of differenciating mood from emotion in depression and psychopathology.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Cowden Hindash, A., & Amir, N. (March 2010). Automatic interpretation in dysphoria. Oral
presentation presented in “Behavioral Responses in Health Care” Symposium at the San Diego
State Student Research Symposium, San Diego, CA.
Cowden Hindash, A., & Amir, N. (November 2010). Single session interpretation modification in
dysphoria. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and
Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.
Cowden Hindash, A., Barrett, C., Bomyea, J., & Amir, N. (November 2009). Evaluating the
effectiveness of a single-session interpretation modification program. Poster presented at the
annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
Cowden Hindash, A., Jensen, B., & Amir, N. (November 2010). Automatic negative
interpretation biases in dysphoria. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.
Cowden Hindash, A. & Latimer, J. (April 2012). Telephone Monitoring RCT with Dually
Diagnosed Psychiatric Inpatients. Oral presentation presented at the Second Annual Stanford
University, Veterans Affairs Center for Health Care Evaluation and National Center for PTSD
Research Assistant Conference, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA.
Cowden Hindash, A., Latimer, J., & Timko, C. (June 2012). Mutual-Help participation and 1-year
outcomes in veterans dually diagnosed with bipolar or unipolar depression. Poster presented at
the 2012 Research Society on alcoholism Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Cowden Hindash, A., Najmi, S., Amir, N. (March 2009). Executive control of attention in
obsessive compulsive disorder. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders
Association of America, Albuquerque, NM.
Lin, S., Cowden Hindash, A., & Timko, C. (June 2012). Benefits of mutual-help groups for dually
diagnosed patients. Poster presented at the 2012 Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific
Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Panaite, V., Bylsma, L.M., Cowden Hindash, A., Salomon, K., & Rottenberg, J. (May 2014).
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity to a sad film and a speech stressor predicts depression
symptom improvement over 30 weeks. Poster presented at the 2014 Association for
Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Bomyea, J., Tobin, A., Cowden Hindash, A., Beard, C., & Amir, N. (November 2008). Time
course of interpretation bias change in social anxiety. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
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Thompson, K., Cowden Hindash, A., Barrett, C., Najmi, S., Sunshine-Hill, A., & Amir, N.
(November 2008). Comparing computer-based assessments of attention bias in obsessive
compulsive disorder. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral
and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
REFERENCES
Dr. Jon Rottenberg – Associative Professor at University of South Florida and Director of the
Mood and Emotion Lab: rottenberg@usf.edu
Dr. Christine Timko – Senior Research Career Scientist at VA HSR&D Center for Health Care
Evaluation at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System: ctimko@stanford.edu
Dr. John McKellar – Health Science Specialist at Program Evaluation and Resource Center under
the VA Central Office Mental Health Strategic Health Group: mckellarjd@gmail.com
Dr. Nader Amir – Professor at San Diego State University/University of California San Diego and
Director of the Center for Understanding and Treating Anxiety: naderami@gmail.com