Personal Information

 Assistant Professor

Department of  Psychology

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Contact Information

Phone: 026420000 Ext. 63551

Email: yacoub.nisreen@gmail.com

Nisreen Yacoub

 Assistant Professor

Profile

  • Focusing on 80 samples which included children and their mother in 1996, I became interested on the influence of mother's attitudes on their children's creative thinking.
  • Specialising in the area of Guidance and Counselling and the challenges that face the psychologist when running personal group development. (1999)
  • I have been focussing on Curriculum development and Theories of Learning, I am interested on how students can become skilled at specific subjects and how they gain knowledge, which influence education process and students achievement. (1999)

  • Specialising in the area of Mother-child attachment, self, autobiographical memory. Attachment, self, and autobiographical memory in middle childhood are the arias that I am working on in addition of the influence of culture on each aria. (2006)

  • (2008) Interested in peer mentor ship centre at King Abdul Aziz University. I am looking at the influence of Peer mentor ship centre on a sample of students who have academic and psychological problems.

    Education

    • 2006

      Doctorate degree from Psychology DepartmentPsychology Department, Durham, درم, بريطانيا

    Employment

    • 1996-حاليا

      Professor Assistant, King Abdul Aziz University, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

    Research Interests

     paper have been published in Saudi Students conference in UK

    1.     

    Self, and autobiographical memory in middle childhood: A cross-cultural study of British and Saudi Arabian children, Child development Journal.

     

     

    2.      Attachment, self, and autobiographical memory in middle childhood: A cross-cultural study of British and Saudi Arabian children, Child development Journal.

     

     

    3.      Intervention Study of attachment representation of Saudi Arabian children: A challenge to improve mother child relationship, The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal.

     

    Scientific interests

    Working as a facilitator for personal group development with adults, especially in development of family and mother-child. Experienced in supporting parents in improving family relation ships.

    Workshops in improving students academic competence.  

    Experiment on a sample of first, second year students who get support by a peer mentor ship centre. Assessing the samples academic improvement and social skills.

     

    The influence of teachers and peers relationships on children’ self concept.
     
    Improving self concept  within  a sample of 7-9 years old children.

     

    Courses

    Mental Health 343 Psy
    Psychology of Personality 345 Psy
    Graduation Research 464 Psy
    General Psychology 211 Psy
    Social Psychology 351 psy
    Developmental psychology 241 psy
    Islamic view of human behavior 454 psy

    Areas of expertise