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B.A; M.A. (University of Delhi);

M.Phil. (IHBAS, Delhi);

Ph.D. (NIMHANS, Bangalore)

Dr. Kanika Malik

Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Academic Events and Research

Email kmalik1@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0003-2869-9055
Key Expertise youth mental health, contextual adaptation of counseling programs, training non-specialists, intervention mechanisms research, and gender and mental health

B.A; M.A. (University of Delhi);

M.Phil. (IHBAS, Delhi);

Ph.D. (NIMHANS, Bangalore)

Biography

As a psychology educator, I have taught core courses to undergraduate Psychology (Hons) students and offered cross-disciplinary electives on brief cognitive and behavioral counseling programs. I have received national and international grants to improve access to mental health interventions and have been actively involved in several Wellcome Trust-funded projects, including PRIDE, which focused on adolescent mental health, METROPOLIS, which explores mechanisms of change in behavioral interventions, and the CCBA project, conducting a systematic review of behavioral activation mechanisms. With 25 peer-reviewed journal publications, my research spans youth mental health, contextual adaptation of counseling programs, training non-specialists, intervention process research, and gender and mental health. Additionally, I am a trained and registered clinical psychologist with the Rehabilitation Council of India and the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists. I have provided clinical services in tertiary care hospitals, private clinics, and community settings, specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapies and low-intensity interventions for young people and adults

Problem-solving counselling for youth

Behavioral activation for improving well-being and mental challenges

Counselling Psychology

Counselling Practicum

Educational Psychology

Educational Practicum

Wellcome Trust, UK (GBP 2,300,000) for the Mechanistic trial of problem solving and behavioural activation for youth depression (METROPOLIS project)

Swasti Health Catalyst, India (USD 11550) for scaling up the PRIDE adolescent mental health program at Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Wellcome Trust, UK (GBP 38,843) as part of the Active Ingredient Commission (2020) for a systematic review on the role of behavioural activation in youth’s depression and anxiety (CCBA project)

NIMHANS institute fellowship to conduct doctoral research in the domain of women and substance use

Gellatly, R., Boustani, M., Nair, P., Mahajan, R., Jambhale, A., Sahu, R., Chodankar, B., Krishna, M., Malik, K., Mathur, S. and Becker, K. (2024). Adolescent engagement in a stepped care, transdiagnostic mental health intervention delivered in Indian schools. Discover psychology, 4(1), 1-15.

Mathur, S., Weiss, H. A., Neuman, M., Leurent, B., Field, A. P., Shetty, T., James, E.J., Nair, P., Mathews, R., Malik, K., Michelson, D, and Patel, V. (2023). Developing knowledge-based psychotherapeutic competencies in non-specialist providers: A pre-post study with a nested randomised controlled trial of a coach-supported versus self-guided digital training course for a problem-solving psychological intervention in India. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 10, e87.

Mathur, S., Weiss, H. A., Neuman, M., Field, A. P., Leurent, B., Shetty, T., J, J. E., Nair, P., Mathews, R., Malik, K., Michelson, D., & Patel, V. (2023). Coach-Supported Versus Self-guided Digital Training Course for a Problem-solving Psychological Intervention for Nonspecialists: Protocol for a Pre-Post Nested Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols, 12, e41981. https://doi.org/10.2196/41981

Malik, K., Shetty, T., Mathur, S., Jose, J. E., Mathews, R., Sahay, M., Chauhan, P., Nair, P., Patel, V., & Michelson, D. (2023). Feasibility and Acceptability of a Remote Stepped Care Mental Health Programme for Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031722

Becker, K.D., Guan, K., Malik K., Gellatly, R., Nair, P., Patel, V., & Chorpita, B.F. (2022). Proof-of-Concept Evaluation of the Reaching Families Engagement System for Youth Mental Health Workers in India. Journal of Health Science and Education, 6(4), 226.

Gellatly, R., Knudsen, K., Boustani, M. M., Michelson, D., Malik, K., Mathur, S., Nair, P., Patel, V., & Chorpita, B. F. (2022). A qualitative analysis of collaborative efforts to build a school-based intervention for multiple common adolescent mental health difficulties in India. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1038259

Malik, K., Parikh, R., Sahu, R., Sudhir, P., Fairburn, C. G., Patel, V., & Michelson, D. (2022). "If there is a tension about something, I can solve it": A qualitative investigation of change processes in a trial of brief problem-solving interventions for common adolescent mental health problems in India. Psychology and psychotherapy, 10.1111/papt.12433. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12433

Malik, K., Ibrahim, M., Mathur, S., Jose, J. E., Nair, P., Sahu, R., Krishna, M., Jangra, D., Mathews, R., Cuijpers, P., Chorpita, B., Fairburn, C. G., Patel, V., & Michelson, D. (2022). Development of a transdiagnostic stepped care programme for common adolescent mental health problems in Indian secondary schools: lessons from a pilot study examining acceptability and feasibility. Global Mental Health, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/GMH.2022.7

Knudsen, K. S., Becker, K. D., Guan, K., Gellatly, R., Patel, V. H., Malik, K., Boustani, M. M., Mathur, S., & Chorpita, B. F. (2021). A pilot study to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of training mental health workers in India to select case‐specific intervention procedures within a dynamic modular treatment designed for a low‐resource setting . Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, April, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.13623

Malik, K., Ibrahim, M., Bernstein, A., Venkatesh, R. K., Rai, T., Chorpita, B., & Patel, V. (2021). Behavioral Activation as an ‘active ingredient’ of interventions addressing depression and anxiety among young people: a systematic review and evidence synthesis. BMC Psychology, 9(1), 150. https://doi.org/10.1186/S40359-021- 00655-X

Malik, K., Michelson, D., Doyle, A. M., Weiss, H. A., Greco, G., Sahu, R., J., J. E., Mathur, S., Sudhir, P., King, M., Cuijpers, P., Chorpita, B., Fairburn, C. G., & Patel, V. (2021). Effectiveness and costs associated with a lay counselor–delivered, brief problem-solving mental health intervention for adolescents in urban, low-income schools in India: 12-month outcomes of a randomized controlled trial. PLOS Medicine, 18(9), e1003778. https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PMED.1003778

Parikh, R., Hoogendoorn, A., Michelson, D., Ruwaard, J., Sharma, R., Bhat, B., Malik, K., Sahu, R., Cuijpers, P., & Patel, V. (2021). Increasing demand for school counselling through a lay counsellor-delivered classroom sensitisation intervention: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial in New Delhi, India. BMJ Global Health, 6(6), e003902. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003902

Krause, K. R., Chung, S., Adewuya, A. O., Albano, A. M., Babins-Wagner, R., Birkinshaw, L., Brann, P., Creswell, C., Delaney, K., Falissard, B., Forrest, C. B., Hudson, J. L., Ishikawa, S. ichi, Khatwani, M., Kieling, C., Krause, J., Malik, K., Martínez, V., Mughal, F., … Wolpert, M. (2021). International consensus on a standard set of outcome measures for child and youth anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(1), 76–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30356-4

Chorpita, B. F., Daleiden, E. L., Malik, K., Gellatly, R., Boustani, M. M., Michelson, D., Knudsen, K., Mathur, S., & Patel, V. H. (2020). Design process and protocol description for a multi-problem mental health intervention within a stepped care approach for adolescents in India. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 133, 103698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103698

Michelson, D., Malik, K., Parikh, R., Weiss, H. A., Doyle, A. M., Bhat, B., Sahu, R., Chilhate, B., Mathur, S., Krishna, M., Sharma, R., Sudhir, P., King, M., Cuijpers, P., Chorpita, B., Fairburn, C. G., & Patel, V. (2020). Effectiveness of a brief lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health problems in urban, low-income schools in India: A randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30173-5

Boustani, M. M., Daleiden, E., Bernstein, A., Michelson, D., Gellatly, R., Malik, K., Patel, V., & Chorpita, B. (2020). Using relevance mapping methodology to design an adolescent mental health intervention in India. Global Health Action, 13(1), 1775062. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2020.1775062

Parikh, R., Michelson, D., Malik, K., Shinde, S., Weiss, H. A., Hoogendoorn, A., … Patel, V. (2019). The effectiveness of a low-intensity problem-solving intervention for common adolescent mental health problems in New Delhi, India: protocol for a school-based, individually randomized controlled trial with an embedded stepped- wedge, cluster randomized controlled recruitment trial. Trials, 20(1), 568. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3573-3

Michelson, D., Malik, K., Krishna, M., Sharma, R., Mathur, S., Bhat, B., … Patel, V. (2019). Development of a transdiagnostic, low-intensity, psychological intervention for common adolescent mental health problems in Indian secondary schools. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 130, 103439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.103439

Roy, K., Shinde, S., Sarkar, B. K., Malik, K., Parikh, R., & Patel, V. (2019). India’s response to adolescent mental health: a policy review and stakeholder analysis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1647-2

Malik, K., Chand, P. K., Marimuthu, P., & Suman, L. N. (2018). Awareness and beliefs about alcohol use among women in India. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 11(3), 311–320. https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2017.1376105

Malik, K., Chand, P. K., Marimuthu, P., & Suman, L. N. (2017). Stressful and Traumatic Experiences among Women with Alcohol Use Disorders in India. Indian journal of psychological medicine, 39(5), 611–618. https://doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_411_16

Malik, K., Chand, P., Marimuthu, P., and Suman, L. N. (2017). Addiction severity and comorbidity among women with alcohol use disorders: A hospital-based study from India. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 28(Supplement C), 67-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2017.03.028

Malik, K., Benegal, V., Murthy, P., Chand, P., Arun, K., and Suman, L. N. (2015). Clinical Audit of Women with Substance Use Disorders: Findings and Implications. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 37(2), 195–200. doi:10.4103/0253-7176.155620

Malik, K., Grover, N., and Kaloiya, G.S. (2015). Approach to Psychotherapy Case Formulation: A beginner Therapist’s Concerns- A Case Study. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 42(1), 68-73.

Malik, K., and Grover, N. (2014). An Exploration of Trainees’ Perception of Clinical Psychology Training in India: A Qualitative Analysis. Psychological Studies, 59(3), 260-267. doi: 10.1007/s12646-014-0244-z
Email kmalik1@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0003-2869-9055
Key Expertise youth mental health, contextual adaptation of counseling programs, training non-specialists, intervention mechanisms research, and gender and mental health
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