Anatasia S. Kim

Biography

B.A. Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1995 M.A. Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology (minor), University of California, Los Angeles, 2001 Dr. Kim is a cognitive-behavioral therapist whose primary areas of interest are child/adolescent development and minority mental health. Her clinical training and experience have involved working in multiple therapeutic contexts, the use of multidisciplinary resources and efforts, and the management of a diversity of mental health concerns. She has worked with children/adolescents and their families in the contexts of schools, day-treatment programs, hospitals, probation programs, foster care, residential care, social and protective services, home-based services, outpatient clinics, and private practice.

Research Interest

Dr. Kim has been leading research projects at the Wright Institute with her doctoral students in a number of areas including: program evaluation for school-based interventions; recruitment and retention of ethnic minority students in graduate training; pipeline for advanced degrees in psychology for historically underrepresented students; legislative advocacy and public policy in professional psychology; and cross-disciplinary approaches to working with systems-involved youth and family.