Dr. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman :: Faculty Profile

Degree Name	Group/Major Subject	Board/Institute	Country	Passing Year
Ph.D.	Experimental Cognitive Developmental Psychology with special emphasis on Developmental Psychology and Developmental Psychopathology/ Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Epistemology, Research Design, Statistics & Multivariate Analysis, also completed a thesis.	University of Manitoba	Canada	1993
Masters	Experimental cognitive Developmental Psychology with special emphasis on Social Psychology and Statistics, also completed a thesis	University of Manitoba	Canada	1988
Masters	Psychology	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	1977
Bachelor	Psychology	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	1976

Title	Organization	Location	From Date	To Date
Senior Clinical Psychologist	Princess Marina Hospital	Gaborone, Botswana	Aug 2009	Aug 2012
Chairman	Department of Psychology , University of Dhaka.	Bangladesh	May 2008	Aug 2009
Chairman	Department of Psychology , University of Dhaka.	Bangladesh	May 2005	May 2008
Professor	Department of Clinical Psychology , University of Dhaka.	Bangladesh	Apr 2003	Present
Associate Professor	Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	May 1999	Apr 2003
Associate Professor	Department of Psychology , University of Dhaka.	Bangladesh	Dec 1997	May 1999
Associate Professor	Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka,.	Bangladesh	Mar 1994	Feb 1997
Assistant Professor	Department of Psychology , University of Dhaka.	Bangladesh	Aug 1992	Mar 1994
Assistant Professor	Department of Psychology , University of Dhaka.	Bangladesh	Apr 1985	Aug 1985
Lecturer	Department of Psychology , University of Dhaka.	Bangladesh	Jan 1981	Apr 2019

Research Interest

Subject	Description	Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator)
Interests in psychology and allied topics	(a) Early childhood developmental process contributing to the formation of healthy or pathological self (or personality), (b) Cross-cultural psychology to understand cross-national and trans-cultural mental health, along with appropriate trans-cultural psychological therapies, (c) Models explaining risky human decisions (e.g., road traffic accident, attempted suicide - self harm, or harming others by violent act or attempted murder etc.) to be tested by cognitive vs. emotional reasoning or automatic reactive covert or overt response mechanisms, (d) Rethinking the history of classification of mental illness, and psychopathologies in everyday private, work and collective socio-cultural life, (e)Psychology and public policy (incorporating experimental-theoretical psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, applied cognitive psychology, and applied social psychology, mental simulation, and theoretical and applied neuropsychology and cognitive science), (f) Research methodology, including qualitative and quantitative data analysis in psychology in particular, and bio-statistics in general, (g) Reinventing the modern human mind through re-writing the history of psychology, integrating the recent trends within psychology, and incorporating theoretical and philosophical aspects from other major disciplines of knowledge etc.
Academic teaching, research and practice of applied psychologies	I will also consider getting a high impact teaching, research cum practice development position in basic as well as multi-disciplinary and within the multi-sub-specialty applied psychology areas, to achieve and expanding myself in one or more of the following areas of academic/ professional excellence: 1. Cognitive Science and Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Emotion, Clinical - Psychology; Psychotherapy with special emphasis on CBT (Cognitive Behaviour therapy) play and music therapy, drama therapy, art therapy, couple/family therapy, sex therapy, group therapy, EMDR therapy, hypnotherapy, client centred therapy, existential therapy, and integrated psychotherapy, incorporating cross-cultural psychology and transcultural/ transnational mental health). 2. Developmental psychology, cognitive development, developmental psychopathology, history of psychology, theories in child and adolescent development, theories of developmental psychopathology within culture and across cultures, theoretical and philosophical issues in psychology and mental health in general., 3. Qualitative and quantitative research methods in child development and clinical psychology, logic of research design, multivariate statistics in psychology and behavioural research, adaptation and validation of clinical and psychometric assessment tools and technologies in a specific cultural context. Also conduction of original and advanced research on a specific clinical population, e.g., on Sleep Disorders and CFS (Chronic fatigue Syndrome). 4. Facilitating the growth of other major areas of applied psychologies anywhere in the world, for example, early childhood development, family psychology, community psychology, community mental health, clinical neuro-psychology &criminal psychology (forensic psychology), organizational/management psychology, disaster psychology, sports psychology, applied cognitive sciences, applied social psychology, from national/ cultural psychology to cross-national/ cross-cultural and global psychology. 5. Understanding Asian mind through Asian psychology, and developing an appropriate psychotherapeutic model suitable for Asian mind. Understanding African mind, and developing appropriate psychotherapeutic intervention models suitable for healing the distress experienced by the African mind. Also, understanding European mind, and developing appropriate psychotherapeutic intervention models suitable for healing the distress experienced by the European mind. Incorporating Asian and African Psychology with American, European and Australian psychology to create an outline/ framework for global psychology. 6. Theoretical and philosophical psychology, with special focus on understanding normal development, abnormal development or psychopathology, and psychotherapeutic process of healing, within a culture, and between cultures 7. Generating theories, models, tools and technologies for practicing internet based psychological assessment and interventions (e.g., eCBT) and other areas of psychological consultation, including distance learning (e-psychology), in the local and global market of all applied psychologies.
Executive Strategic Management	I will also consider to get a position to fulfil my current special Interests in Academic Strategic Executive Management of Educational, Health and Social Service Development Institutions, with special focus on healthy self and group development; and thus promoting master strategic ideas and helping developing academic/ professional institutions to offer best possible social services, through its programme planning and management, execution of best possible policy and procedure to ensure healthy self and groups as product of good organizational/community experiences and ensuring effective learning process of change and development culture, impacting positively on the greater societies and states.

Project/Research Supervision

Level of Study	Title	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor(s)	Name of Student(s)	Area of Research	Current Completion
No project/research supervision is found

Project/Research Work

Subject	Project Name	Source of Fund	From Date	To Date	Collaboration
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Invited Talk

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Book
1	Professors Dr. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman and Nazma Khatun Intermediate level mental health care manual for working with the women and children victims of trafficking and violence. Dhaka: The Dhaka Ahsania Mission,, 2006 .
2	Professor Dr. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman and Jobeda Khatun Advanced level mental health care manual for working with the women and children victims of trafficking and violence. Dhaka: The Dhaka Ahsania Mission, 2006 .
3	Edited by Professor Dr. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman the training of trainers’ manual written by Mr. Reza on “How to provide psychosocial support to disaster victims at community level”, published by NIRAPAD. (In Bengali language for use by community counselors).. 2006 .
4	Professors M. Aminul Islam and Professors Dr. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Introduction to Behavioural Science. Dhaka: UPL,, 2000. .

Journal Article
1	Deeba, F. and and Rahman, M. M. : Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Adolescents in Bangladesh. In CBT in Non Western Cultures (Eds., Naeem, F, &Kingdon, D.): Nova Press, UK., , 2011 .
2	Kaly, A.,, Mozumder, M. K.,, Rahman, M. M. and and Parveen, Z. : Clinical Psychology Service at Non-medical Setup: Service Development and Profile of Clients Attending Students Guidance and Counseling Center of University of Dhaka. Dhaka University Journal of Psychology, 34, 1-11., , 2010 .
3	Uddin, M.Z. and and Rahman, M.M. : Construction of a Scale of Depression and Determining its Reliability, Validity and Norm for use in Bangladesh.Bangladesh Psychological Studies., , 2005 .
4	Zaman, S.N., and and Rahman, M.M. : Level of Depression of the Patients Attending the Outpatient and Inpatient Services of the General Hospitals in Dhaka City. Bangladesh Psychological Studies, Vol. 14, p. 17-26., , 2004 .
5	Mozumder, M.K. and and Rahman, M.M. : A prevalence study of various male psycho-sexual dysfunctions and problems among individuals attending psychological services in a sex therapy clinic. Bangladesh Psychological Studies, 14, 71-88., , 2004 .
6	Zaman, S.S. and and Rahman, MM. : Sex preference of newborn babies by the parents and grandparents in Bangladesh: a pilot study. Bangladesh Journal of Psychology, 6:283-92, , 1998 .
7	Rahman, M.M. : Ethological approach to human attachment: a critical review, Bangladesh Psychological Studies, 8:41-58., , 1998 .
8	Rahman MM. : Class and sex difference in sensorimotor development among infants in Dhaka City on the Uzgiris and Hunt's ordinal scales of psychological development. 7:87-103., Bangladesh Journal of Psychology, , 1994 .
9	Rahman, M.M. : Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Dhaka University Journal of Psychology, 18: 31-41., , 1994 .
10	Rahman, M.M. : Conduct disorder during adolescence. Bangladesh Psychological Studies, 1:1-28., , 1991 .
11	Huq M, and Rahman MM : and Mahmud SH. Role of neuroticism, psychoticism and extraversion in academic achievement. Asian Journal of Psychology,2:1-6., , 1986 .
12	Huq, M.,, Mahmud, S.H. and and Rahman, M.M. : Effect of mobilization of prior knowledge on free recall of experimentally induced familiar and unfamiliar materials. Dhaka University Studies, Part E, 1:53-58., , 1986 .
13	Sorcar, N.R,, Mahmud, S.H. and and Rahman, M.M. : .Motivation and fertility. Bangladesh Journal of Psychology, 9:32-41., , 1986 .

Conference Proceedings
1	Chowdhury, K.U., and and Rahman, M.M. "Psychological Aspects of Spinal Cord Injury. In Post Conference Publication of the International Conference on Spinal Cord Lesion Management, edited by Janet A, and Kabir, H. Dhaka : Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), 144-46.." 2001 .
2	Sultana, S.Z.,, Rahman, M.M.,, Hossain, J.U.M.N.,, Uddin, M.Z., and and Jahan, I. "Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) : Publication of the International Conference on Spinal Cord Lesion Management, edited by Janet, A., and Kabir, H. Dhaka : Centre for the Rehabiliation of the Paralysed (CRP), 150-53.." 2001 .

Award Type	Title	Year	Country	Description
International	Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship	1986	Canada	For Studying M.A. & Ph.D in Canada
International	British TC Award		United Kingdom	For Post-Doctoral Training at University College London (UCL) as a part of Link Programme to get training as a "Clinical Tutor" for the Development of Clinical Psychology Training Courses at Dhaka University.

Name & designation Dr. Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Honorary Professor

Department Department of Clinical Psychology Faculty of Biological Sciences

Email mahmudrahman.cp@du.ac.bd

Phone +88-02-9661920-59,Ex-7804;