丁香园AV

Research Interests

The focus of my research is adolescent and family mental health, with the broad aim of enhancing fit between research and practice settings. Founationally, my concentration was family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders, where I investigated parent actions and processes while they were engaged in the treatment. I have extended on this work by exploring how cross-cultural youth-counsellor dyads engage in the most curative element of common to any counselling treatment: the therapeutic relationship. Finally, in partnership with colleges and educational professionals, we are exploring the ways in which school-based career interventions may confer a positive influence on adolescent mental health.