Shakuntala M Ramdas
Assistant Professor, Mental Health Counseling
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Contact
- BX 2256
- sramdas@mercy.edu
- (718) 678-8824
Shakuntala M Ramdas
Assistant Professor, Mental Health Counseling
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
About
Dr. Melissa Ramdas is an LMHC with many years of clinical and academic experience. She has worked with adolescents and substance abuse clients in various outpatient settings. As an assistant professor at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ University, she teaches in the graduate counseling program. Her work as a professor and clinician has also inspired her research on counseling education and student professional development.
- Introduction to Mental Health Counseling
- Trauma and Crisis
- Counseling and Application
- Group Counseling Theory and Practice
- Simons, J., Bahr, M. W., & Ramdas, M. (2021). Counselor Competence Gender Identity Scale: Measuring Clinical Bias, Knowledge, and Skills.
- Simons, J. D., Ramdas, M., & Russell, S. T. (2020). School-age coping: Themes across three generations of sexual minorities. Journal of school counseling: JSC, 18.
- Ramdas,S.M. (2019). The Relevance of Including Transgender Counseling Competencies in Mental Health Counseling Graduate Programs (doctoral dissertation). Pace University, Pleasantville, NY.
- Simons, J. D., Ramdas,S. M., Farrell, S., & Russell, S. T. (2019). Lived school experiences: Coping during youth and emerging adulthood. Manuscript in preparation.
- Simons, J. D., Gonzalez, J. M., & Ramdas, M. (2020). Supporting intersex people: Effective academic and career counseling. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 14(3), 191-209.