Ruqayah Alhajji

Courses

• Promoting First Relationships October 2019, Seattle, United State
• Motivational Interviewing November 2018, Seattle, United State
• Incredible Years School Age Basic Parent Group Leader March 2017 Seattle, United State
• Nobody's Perfect Parenting Facilitators Training February 2016 Vancouver, Canada
• The Essentials of Advocacy: Parent's Guide to Advocating for Their Child With Special Needs, Vancouver, Canada,Friday, November 20th, 2015
• Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): A Research Based 10-Session Filial Therapy: Model, Vancouver, Canada, 29-30 May, 2015.

Conferences/Study Visits

• The 2022 APSARD Annual Meeting: Moving Forward together: Advancing the science and care of ADHD: Virtual
• The 2021 APSARD Annual Meeting: ADHD in the Era of COVID maintaining Focus: Virtual
• A Lifetime of ADHD: Diagnosis, Treatment and Clinical Pearls (ADHD 101): Jan 14, 2021
• AACAP's 65th Annual Meeting, October 22-27 in Seattle, WA.
• The 11th Annual CADDRA ADHD Conference, Pre-event workshop: ADHD Institute primary and advance, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 16, 2015
• Study Tour in Japan for University Students, from 23rd September to 1st October, 2014.
• Nursing Education in Japan, September 24th 2014, Tokyo women’s Medical University.
• Cutting-edge technology observation programme on 25 September 2014, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan.
• Complex System and the Web science, 29 September, Graduate school of Arts and science, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
• University Visit Programme, Tokyo University of Technology, on 30 September, 2014
  

Graduate Student Researcher

Seattle Children's Hospital Nov 2018 - Mar 2022

Program to Enhance Attention, Regulation and Learning (PEARL) for ADHD

Doctoral Dissertation

• Dissertation title “Diagnostic Accuracy and Utility for the Strengths and Weaknesses of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Symptoms and Normal Behaviors Scale (SWAN)”

Publications

• Psychosocial Aspects of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Perceived by Parents from Saudi Arabia, accepted as poster but didn’t publish for Eunethydis 2014 International Congress on ADHD
• Istanbul Turkey
• ADHD child and parenting stress “Gulf Health magazine issue 120, June 2013

Teaching Experiences

• Assistant Professor at Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Department King Saud University 2022 September - Now
• Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing (NUR 415)
• Theoretical Basis of Primary Health Care (NUR 510)

Clinical Experiences 2010-2016

• Clinical instructor in the following centers:
• Psychiatric ward / King Kahlad University Hospital / Riyadh
• Psychiatric ward / Alamal Mental Health Complex / Riyadh
  

Member at The American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSRD)