Dr Ayesha Jabeen

Dr Ayesha Jabeen

  • Senior Lecturer
  • School of Psychology
Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences
SDGs Focus

Biography

Dr Ayesha Jabeen is a clinical psychologist with around 14 years of teaching, clinical supervision, and research experience. Before joining ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University, she served as Chairperson and Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Management and Technology (UMT), Pakistan. She also headed the Happiness Center, a clinical and counselling service providing support to university students, staff, and the wider community.

She has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels, covering subjects such as developmental psychology, psychological assessment and interventions, child counselling, neurorehabilitation, and quantitative research methods. She has been actively involved in curriculum development, programme design, and academic quality enhancement in clinical and counselling psychology education.

She has supervised more than 60 Masters and Bachelor students theses, and her doctoral students are completing work on topics including psychosocial challenges linked with aesthetic treatment procedures and the role of risk and protective factors in narcissistic personality within married life. She has also developed around 40 indigenous psychological scales for assessing diverse constructs in culturally relevant contexts.

Her research projects have focused on childhood disorders, developmental issues in school-going children, parental and family dynamics, relationship and interpersonal challenges, and the wellbeing of marginalised and at-risk populations. She has supervised studies on psychosocial issues affecting diverse community groups such as farmers, flight attendants, polio-affected individuals, and eczema patients.

She has delivered numerous workshops and training sessions for educators, clinicians, parents, and students on child behaviour management, individualized training programmes, micro-management of behaviours, classroom handling strategies, and psychoeducation for parents and teachers. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes holistic student development, independent learning, and critical thinking.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD Clincal Psychology,University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan (2022)
  • MS Clinical Psychology, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan (2011)
  • BS Clinical Psychology, University of The Punjab, Lahore Pakistan(2009)

Research Interests

  • Children with Special Needs
  • Mainstream children and adolescents
  • Adaptive skills, ADHD, Autism, Executive functions
  • Psycho-social Problems of different strata of Community

Teaching Areas

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Psychological interventions
  • Child and Adult Counselling
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Applied Behavior Analysis

Courses Taught

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neurorehabilitation
  • Cognitive Assessment
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Child counselling
  • Cognitive Assessment

Notable Publications

  1. Rehman, S., Saleem, S., Zahra, S. T., & Jabeen, A. (2025). Experiences of dating violence in young adults within Pakistani culture: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Violence and Psychology

  2. Irfan, R., Saleem, S., Zahra, S.T., & Jabeen, A. (2024). Parenting the parents: A phenomenological study of parentified adolescents in Pakistan. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology,
    34, 1-18.

  3. Sabir, A. S. ., & Jabeen, A. . (2023). Fear of Missing Out in University Students: A Psychometric Study. Annals of King Edward Medical University, 29(2), 91-97. https://doi.org/10.21649/akemu.v29i2.5432 R

  4. Khurshid, H., & Jabeen, A. (2023). Learning with Trisomy 21: Life Skills Training of a Child with Down’s Syndrome. Annals of King Edward Medical University, 28(4),437-440 A

  5. Jabeen A, Khadim R, Azhar M, Farrukh U. Strabismus as a Psychosocial Disease in Pakistani Cultural Context : Doi: 10.36351/pjo.v38i3.1385. Pak J Ophthalmol [Internet]. 2022 Jul. 1 [cited 2023 Apr. 7];38(3). Available from:

  6. Jabeen, A., Ijaz, . A. & Fatima, . S. (2023) Mental health trainees: Experience of online classes during COVID-19 pandemic. Rawal Medical Journal, 48 (1), 213-215.

  7. Jabeen A, Mahmood Z, Saleem S, Subhan S. Development of Social Skills Scale for School Children. J Postgrad Med Inst 2022;36(2): 63-9.

  8. Jabeen A, & Mahmood Z. (2022.) Development Of Functional Cognitive Scale For Children Aged 7-12 Years: A Neglected Domain In Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Social Research, 3(3),371-78

  9. Shahzadi, K.,Rubab, Iram., Jabeen, A., Iqbal, U..J. (2022). Covid-19 and Spousal Violence against Women in Pakistan: A Web based Cross Sectional Study on Financial Anxieties and Rising Levels of Intimate Partner Violence during the Pandemic. Pakistan Journal of Mental Health. 16(6), 288-290

  10. Jabeen, A. & Mahmood, . Z. (2022) Cognition-based learning readiness skills in children of age 7-10 years: An unappreciated domain. Rawal Medical Journal, 47 (3), 732-73

  11. Kashaf & Jabeen, . A. (2022) Improving cognitive and social deficits in Down's syndrome (Trisomy 21) using behavior modification techniques. Rawal Medical Journal, 47 (4), 1044-1045

Achievements & Accolades

  1. Best Researcher - 2023
  2. Teaching Excellence Recognition - 2023, 2024