CREDENTIALS

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016 - 2017: Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, APA Accredited

Rotation 1: Child and Adolescent Acute Services, Inpatient

Rotation 2: Autism & Developmental Disabilities/Pediatric Neuropsychology

Psy.D. Clinical Psychology

2014 - 2016: Chester, Pennsylvania (USA)

Institute of Graduate Clinical Psychology, APA Accredited Clinical Psychology program.

Track: Biofeedback

Concentration(s): Psychoanalytic, Forensic

Dissertation: Institutional Care for Children: Is it a Viable Model? Examination of an Orphanage in New Delhi, India

M.A. Clinical Psychology

2011 - 2014: Chester, Pennsylvania (USA)

Institute of Graduate Clinical Psychology, APA Accredited Clinical Psychology programme

B.A. Psychology, Criminal Justice, & Philosophy

2007 - 2011: Norfolk, Virginia (USA)

Graduated with honors, summa cum laude.

Publications & Presentations

Last 6 years

Publications

  • Knauss, L.K., Dyette, K. (2017). Psychological testing that Matters: creating a roadmap for effective treatment, by Anthony D. Bram and Mary Jo Peebles (Book Review). Journal of Personality Assessment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2017.1298116.

 

  • Modi, K., Nayar-Akhtar, M., Ariely, S., Gupta, D., Dyette, K. (Ed) (2016). Addressing challenges of transition from children’s home to independence: Udayan Care’s Udayan Ghars (Sunshine Children’s Homes) & aftercare programme. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 15(1), 1-15.

 

  • Dyette, K., & Nayar-Akhtar, M.C. (2015). Understanding institutionalized children in a developing country: exploration of trauma and attachment at an orphanage in India. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, doi: 101177/0003065115595218.

 

 

  • Modi, K., Dyette, K., Nayar-Akhtar, M.C., & Antra (2014). Udayan Ghars (sunshine homes): a unique model as a developmental support to children in institutions. Children Australia, 39(4): 226-231, 2014, doi:10.1017/cha.2014.34.

Presentations

  • Dyette, K., Smith, B., Haas, G., & Yap, L. (2019, March). Dominant and subjugated narratives: the culturally sensitive assessment. Presented at New Frontiers in Personality Assessment at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, New Orleans, LA. Symposium Chair.

 

  • Dyette, K. & Castineiras, P.  (2017, March). Minding the body: utilizing the Rorschach and Biofeedback to inform psychotherapy treatment in a changing landscape. Presented at New Innovations in Personality Assessment at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Francisco, CA.

 

  • Dyette, K. (2017, January). Rorschach and the body. Presented at the Research Symposium at the American Psychoanalytic Association Winter Meetings, New York, NY.

 

  • Dyette, K., & Alfeo, A. (2016, March). Six degrees of separation: all roads lead to assessment – the collaborative assessment case conference experience. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

 

  • Dyette, K., & Nayar-Akhtar, M. (2015, January). Understanding institutionalised children in a developing country: exploration of trauma and attachment at an orphanage in India. Poster presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association Winter Meetings, New York, NY.