Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Research and Leadership Experience
Timeline
Volunteer

YAN ZHOU

Toronto,CANADA

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

408-Help (4357) Line Responder(Volunteer)

Distress Center
Toronto, Ontario
06.2022 - Current
  • Worked 4 hours per week
  • Provided suicide prevention services, emergency intervention, and response.
  • Provided support and crisis intervention services for those currently experiencing distress or crisis.
  • Provided emotional support service for those with chronic mental health problems.
  • Responded to Family violence.

Volunteer

Sunnybrook Hospital (Odette Cancer Centre)
Toronto, Ontario
06.2022 - Current
  • Worked 2 hours per week(on-site)
  • Supported engaging, fun, and smooth-running events by helping with organization and planning.
  • Used strong interpersonal communication skills to convey information to others.
  • Friendly visited patients with dementia.

Emotional Counsellor; Teaching Assistant

The Mentor and The Talent
Chengdu, Sichuan
11.2020 - 08.2021
  • Counseled students on family problems with their parents to help them find reasons behind their learning difficulties.
  • Delivered psychologically personalized, educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
  • Established classes(22 students) to lecture IELTS's listening, reading, and writing sections.
  • Tutored struggling students individually and in small groups to reinforce learning concepts.

Contract Full-time Intern

West China Hospital (Sichuan University)
Chengdu, Province, China
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Captured, edited, and subtitled psychological videos for broadcast on China Central Television.
  • Developed rapport with clients suffering from mental illnesses, HIV, and other conditions in order to foster a trusting relationship.
  • Took detailed meeting minutes, prepared meeting rooms, and compiled paperwork to support the department.
  • Maintained office schedule in order to coordinate workflow and meetings.
  • Reviewed relevant literature and conducted investigations to aid research efforts.
  • Increased productivity by analyzing protocols and identifying opportunities for improvement.
  • Worked as part of a professional team to resolve workflow issues.
  • Completed research, compiled data, updated spreadsheets, and delivered reports on time.
  • Created high-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for internal and external clients.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Psychology, Sociology, Environment And Behaviour

University of Toronto St. George Campus
Toronto, ON
08.2023

Skills

  • Administrative Tasks
  • Multi-task and Time Managing Skills
  • Scheduling
  • Communication, Coping and Organization Skills
  • Analytics and Problem-solving
  • Team Collaboration
  • Operations Support
  • Emotional Support
  • Fluent Bilingual (Chinese, English: IELTS-7)
  • Sand Tray Therapy
  • Academic Research, Poster, and Presentation
  • R/SPSS/SAS/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Excel/Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Editing Videos with Final Cut Pro

Research and Leadership Experience

Recognized Study Group Leader(Co-curriculum record), UTSG.

1. Developmental Psychology Lab, 2022 summer

  • Helped peers to Develop key skills used by researchers in developmental psychology.
  • Asked research questions, designed studies(Accurate Self-assessment Under The Age-dominant Attitudes Sensitivity), conducted literature searches, collected and interpreted data with R/SPSS/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Excel/Microsoft PowerPoint/Final Cut Pro, and presented findings on the academic poster.
  • Earned the certificate of completion: the Course on Research Ethics based on the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans(TCPS 2: CORE 2022).
  • Accomplished all the course notes, actively communicating with instructors to help students review.
  • Set up 6 meetings to help peers to review and discuss all the assignments.
  • Provided and received 2 constructive feedback from peers.


2. Social Psychology Seminar at UTSG, recognized study group leader, 2022 summer

  • Summarized all the academic readings on identity and relationships in the digital age to help peers focus on lectures.
  • Reviewed and Collected the knowledge about the concepts, considerations, and challenges unique to social.
  • Set up group meetings for critical thinking in evaluating ideas, writing, and research decisions.
  • Provided and received 3 constructive feedback from peers.
  • Provided academic development in working collaboratively with peers.
  • Accomplished all the course notes, actively communicating with instructors to help students review.


Official Notetaker, UTSG.

  • IRE 260H1: Organizational Behavior
  • Soc204H1: Qualitative Data Measurement
  • Soc252H1: Quantitative Data Measurement
  • Soc308H1: Globalization and Inequality
  • Soc363H1: Sociology of Mental Health
  • Psy204H1:Psychology Careers and Applications
  • Psy260H1: Learning and Plasticity of Brain
  • Psy320H1: Social Psychology: Attitudes
  • Psy362H1: Animal Cognition
  • Psy490H1: Neuropsychology Seminar



Timeline

408-Help (4357) Line Responder(Volunteer)

Distress Center
06.2022 - Current

Volunteer

Sunnybrook Hospital (Odette Cancer Centre)
06.2022 - Current

Contract Full-time Intern

West China Hospital (Sichuan University)
06.2021 - 08.2021

Emotional Counsellor; Teaching Assistant

The Mentor and The Talent
11.2020 - 08.2021

Bachelor of Science - Psychology, Sociology, Environment And Behaviour

University of Toronto St. George Campus

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