Mei Yi Ng, PhD
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida International University (FIU), where I am a core faculty member of the Clinical Science in Child and Adolescent Psychology program. I am also affiliated with the FIU Center for Children and Families. I conduct research to better understand how psychological therapies work and to make them more effective, especially those for depressed adolescents. I also study young people's use of smartphones and social media, and am working on using mobile technologies to more accurately assess and improve each person's mental health. I mentor graduate students in the Clinical Science PhD program and teach a graduate course, Affective Bases of Behavior. I also teach an undergraduate course, Abnormal Psychology and a senior seminar, Psychological Interventions: Science and Practice.
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I grew up in Singapore and moved to the United States to pursue my BA in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating, I returned home to gain more research, teaching, and clinical experience at the National University of Singapore and National University Hospital. Then I joined Harvard University as a graduate student to work with Professor John Weisz on youth psychotherapy research. I studied therapy outcomes, change processes, and potential mechanisms, particularly those for depression, using various quantitative methods (e.g., meta-analysis, mediation and longitudinal analyses), graduating with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. For my predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship, I focused on clinical work and research with underserved adolescents under the mentorship of Associate Professor Marina Tolou-Shams at the University of California, San Francisco, before coming to FIU.