Dr. Dr. Noreena Kausar
Designation : Assistant Professor
Specialization : Psychology
Office Exten : 205
Specialization : Psychology
Email : [email protected]
Office Number : +(92) 533643167Office Exten : 205
BRIEF INTRODUCTION: I have total 22 years and three months experience in teaching/research and consultancy in the field of psychology. From which 21 years and 2 months experience is in public sector and one year experience is in private setting. Currently, I am working as assistant professor in Department of Psychology, UOG. In UOG, I have been serving from last 17years and 5 months. During this time period, other than teaching and research, I have been involved in additional administrative assignments (Coordinator, Head Department of Psychology & Director, UOG City Campus Railway Road) for 9 years and 6 months and 21 days. My contribution in departmental progress was in form of launching the program of M.Phil, and Advanced Diploma in Clinical Psychology. I have been a member of different research, discipline and skill enhancement committees in the University of Gujrat. I have attended numerous workshops, seminars and took different training courses from public and private channels. I have also conducted number of training workshops, training courses and delivered lectures in different public sector organizations. I have 43 research publications in HEC recognized journals in different categories. I also got distinction (Gold Medal) in M.Phil and two Roll of Honors in Masters and Graduation programs.
Areas of interest are in field of clinical psychology, child psychopathology, abnormal Psychology and experimental research.
- Ph.D ,University of Gujrat
- M.Phil,University of Gujrat
- ADCP,University of Punjab
- Msc,University of Punjab
- BA,University of Punjab
- Intermediate,Lahore Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education
- Matric,Lahore Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education
- role of honor MSC
- Role of Honor BA
- Gold Medal M.Phil
- Member Scholarship Committee UOG Scholarship Committee
- Member of DRRC Departmental research Review Committee
- Member, Faculty Board Board of Faculty, Social Sciences
- Member Board of Studies, Department of Psychology, UOG
- External Examiner MA/MSc, BA/BSc
- Paper setter MA/MSc
- Member DRRC Department of Mass Communication and Media, UOG
| Student Name | Degree | Title | Status / Completed Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | M.Sc. | 2009-2020 | |
| Maria Mazhar | Ph.D | PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY, BEHAVIORAL INFLEXIBILITY AND FAMILY FUNCTIONING: A PARENTAL PERSPECTIVE OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER ABSTRACTParents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face many challengesduring their journey of parenting but if parents are psychologically flexible they dealwith all of these challenges effectively (Gur & Reich, 2023). Therefore, the currentstudy aims to explore the psychological flexibility among parents of children withASD. For this purpose, three interlinked phases were carried out in the current study.The phase-I of the current study consisted of 3 studies. Study-1 was conducted toexplore parental perspective regarding psychological flexibility specifically inPakistani culture. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 parents (10mothers & 10 fathers) of children with ASD following an interview guide. Data weretranscribed using the thematic analysis method. The results revealed 5 main themes ofmindfulness, acceptance, adaptation, executive functioning and resilience related topsychological flexibility. The study-II of the phase-I was conducted with the aim ofdeveloping and validating the Psychological Flexibility Scale for parents of childrenwith ASD. From the themes derived in study-1, the pool of 55 items were generated.These items were evaluated by experts for content validity. After deletion of 7 itemsby expert evaluation, 48 items were pilot tested on the 30 parents (15 mothers & 15fathers). For the field study, 550 parents were selected. The exploratory (EFA),confirmatory (CFA) and reliability analyses were carried out. EFA was carried out onthe 205 parents which retained 5 factors in scale with 39 items. It was furtherconfirmed by CFA which resulted in 32 items with 5 factors. The scale has goodinternal consistency(r=.96) and test-retest reliability(r=.82). The scale also has goodconvergent (r=.62 & r=.64) and divergent validity (r= -.14). The study-III of Phase-I,aimed to adapt and validate the Behavioral Inflexibility Scale (Lecavalier et al., 2020)into Urdu language for measuring the perceived behavioural inflexibility of childrenwith ASD by their parents. By following the standardized method of backward andforward translation, the scale was translated and then evaluated by expert for contentvalidity. After expert evaluation, the scale was pilot tested on 30 parents and item totalcorrelation of Urdu and English version was calculated. Cross-language validationwas conducted on 80 parents and the results revealed string linguistic equivalencebetween both versions of the scale (Urdu & English). EFA on parents revealed 2factors with 38 items while CFA further confirmed 2 factors with 34 items. Thepsychometric properties of scale through convergent validity (r=.70), divergentvalidity (-.07) and test-retest reliability(r=.85) were also determined as significant.(Page 22 of 273)The phase-II of the current study was conducted with the purpose of finding thecorrelation among psychological flexibility, perceived behavioral inflexibility andfamily functioning among parents of children with ASD. The sample of 600 parentswere selected using purposive sampling from Lahore, Gujranwala, Jalalpur Jattah,Gujrat, Kharian and Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan. Newly developed PsychologicalFlexibility Scale, Urdu version of Behavioral Inflexibility Scale (Lecavalier et al.,2020) and Autism Family Experience Scale (Leadbitter et al., 2018) were used fordata collection. The results of the study revealed significant negative correlationbetween parental psychological flexibility and perceived behavioral inflexibility(r=-.66). Similarly, results also indicated significant negative correlation between parentalpsychological flexibility and poor family functioning (r= -.63). At this phase, furtherresults also indicated that fathers of children with ASD have higher level of parentalpsychological flexibility, perceived less behavioral inflexibility in their children andhad better family functioning as compared to mothers. Moreover, the results indicatedthat parents of children living in the joint family reported better psychologicalflexibility and good family functioning but perceived less behavioral inflexibility intheir children as compared to the parents of children living in nuclear family systems.Results further highlighted that parent having female children with ASD had lowparental psychological flexibility, perceived more behavioral inflexibility and hadpoorer family functioning than parents of male children with ASD. Similarly, parentsof children with severe level of ASD reported low parental psychological flexibility,perceived more behavioral inflexibility in their children and had poor familyfunctioning as compared to parents of children with mild and moderate level of ASD.Findings of phase-II also confirmed the hypotheses that parental psychologicalflexibility is a significant predictor of perceived behavioral inflexibility(p=.00) andfamily functioning(p=.00) among parents of children with ASD. Parentalpsychological flexibility partially mediates the relationship between perceivedbehavioral inflexibility and family functioning in parents of children with ASD.Phase-III of the current research was designed to compare the parental psychologicalflexibility at pre and post parental training program in mothers of children with ASD.Moreover, perceived behavioral inflexibility and family functioning of mothers werealso measured at both levels of training program. In Phase-III before and after withoutcontrol research design (Kothari, 2004) was applied. Parental psychologicalflexibility, perceived behavioral inflexibility and family functioning were measured at(Page 23 of 273)pre and post parental training program. Total 10 group therapeutic sessions of parentaltraining program were designed based on an eclectic approach. Through purposivesampling, 20 mothers divided in in 3 groups were selected from Gujrat, Kharian andLalamusa for training program. On average 90-minutes sessions were given to allthree groups with same protocol of training program for five weeks. Results indicateda statistically significant improvement in the mother’s psychological flexibility,significant reduction in the perceived behavioral inflexibility and poor familyfunctioning at post level of training program as compared to pre-level of trainingprogram (p=.00). The newly developed PFS can be used in special education schoolsand clinical settings for the measurement of parental psychological flexibility.Moreover, this study highlighted the importance of parental training programs forparents of children with ASD. | 2025 |
| 20 | MS | 2012-2020 |
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1. Dr Sidra MAqsood, Prof, Dr Fauzia MAqsood & Dr. Noreena Kausar “Challenges of English Medium Instructions Faced by University Students Studying Social sciences: A qualitative study” Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series-Themes In Translation Studies, May 2021 DOI:
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