{"id":18467,"date":"2023-07-18T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=18467"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:47:07","slug":"melissa-holt","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/profile\/melissa-holt\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Holt &#8211; Director, Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s3\">Melissa Holt (she\/her) earned her BS in Psychology from Tufts University and her MS and PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed a clinical psychology internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry and is a licensed Psychologist. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s7\"><span class=\"s3\">Melissa\u2019s scholarship focuses on bias-based harassment among adolescents, school-based prevention programs, and the experiences of gender diverse youth. Her research emphasizes ways in which contexts and systems can better support youth well-being and amplify their strengths. \u00a0Melissa\u2019s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Justice<\/span><span class=\"s3\">. <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Melissa has published research findings <\/span><span class=\"s3\">a wide range of <\/span><span class=\"s3\">academic <\/span><span class=\"s3\">journals<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, and also <\/span><span class=\"s3\">has co-edited one book<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Critical-Issues-in-School-based-Mental-Health-Evidence-based-Research\/Holt-Grills\/p\/book\/9781138025011\"><span class=\"s5\">Critical Issues in School Mental Health: Evidence-based Research, Practice, and Interventions<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s3\">) <\/span><span class=\"s3\">and co-authored another book (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hogrefe.com\/us\/shop\/bullying-and-peer-victimization-67542.html\"><span class=\"s5\">Bullying and<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Peer Victimization<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s6\">). <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s3\">With respect to teaching, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Melissa has taught courses ranging from an undergraduate first-year experience course to doctoral-level seminars, and is committed to mentoring students at all levels of their academic careers. She was awarded the Excellence in Graduate Advising Award from BU Wheelock in 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17931,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22601,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18467\/revisions\/22601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}