Emily Wu
Doctoral Student
Emily Wu is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a research member of the ARISE Lab under the advisement of Dr. Grace Kim. Her research aims to uncover the risk and resilience trajectories linked to racial trauma in ethnically minoritized youth. By identifying the factors that contribute to negative mental health outcomes, she seeks to address and mitigate racial and ethnic disparities in care through the development of culturally conscious interventions, with a particular focus on Asian American communities. Clinically, Emily is interested in integrating evidence-based practices with culturally responsive frameworks to improve treatment engagement and outcomes.
Most recently, Emily served as the lab manager for the Early Life Stress and Resilience Program in the Stanford School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Previously, she was the graduate student lab manager for the Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Lab at San Francisco State University. Her publication record includes work that examined how avoidant coping in response to racial trauma can promote flourishing and explored the role of hardiness in mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
pronouns: she/her
Education
MS, Clinical Psychology, San Francisco State University
BA, Psychology, Brandeis University
Selected Publications
Wu, E. W., Hagan, M. J., Eschleman, K., & Gard, D. E. (2024, February 15). Hardiness predicts mental health recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advanced online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0001660
Wu, E. (2022). Avoidant Coping In Response To Racial Trauma Promotes Flourishing [Master’s thesis]. San Francisco State University. https://doi.org/10.46569/20.500.12680/8p58pm17m
Selected Presentations
Wu, E., Hagan, M. (2024, April 12-13). Avoidant coping mitigates negative mental health outcomes from racial trauma during COVID-19. [Poster session]. Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology Diversifying Clinical Psychology Networking Event, Virtual.
Hagan, M., Wu, E. (2024, March 20-23). Emotion regulation effectiveness, race-based trauma, and the COVID-19 pandemic: The toll of social media exposure [Oral Paper Presentation]. American Psychosomatic Society, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Farrise, K., Wu, E. & Hagan, M. (2022, May 26-29). Is development of trauma symptoms following exposure to racial discrimination moderated by adverse childhood experiences? [Poster session]. Association for Psychological Science Convention, Chicago, IL, United States.
Clayson P., Szewczyk, W., Wu, E., Iglesias, J., Ghazarian, S., Wynn, J., Green, M., & Horan, W. (2019, September). Intact Responses To Socially Relevant Emotional Images in Probands with Psychosis and their Siblings: An Event Related Potential Study. Poster to be presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Buffalo, N.Y.
Wynn, J. K., Clayson, P., Green, M. F., Lee, J., Ghazarian, S., Iglesias, J., Szewczyk., Wu, E., & Horan, W. P. (2019, September). Dysfunctional Facial Affect Perception in People with Psychosis and their Siblings: Findings from an ERP Study. Poster to be presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Buffalo, N.Y.