Yuko Okado, Ph. D

Dr. Okado received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Penn State University. Her main research interests include: (1) Mentoring, career development, and support for under-represented/underserved students' persistence in STEM, including Psychology, (2) psychosocial and academic adjustment of college/university students (particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic), and (3) prevention of stress-related mental and physical illnesses through brief, online cognitive-behavioral interventions.

Her teaching interests include statistics and research methods, clinical psychology (child/adolescent/adult assessment and intervention), health and pediatric psychology, and positive psychology.  As a clinical psychologist, she is trained in both adult and child/adolescent assessment and treatment within community mental health and healthcare settings.  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and a predoctoral internship at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, and holds an M.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University.

 

Lab website:

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