Role

Dr. Liu serves as an affiliate faculty member to CSPAR.

Background

Dr. Liu is a third-wave behavior therapist trained in DBT and ACT, working with youth and families living with chronic illness. Her research program focuses on scalable mental health service interventions to improve access and quality of care for diverse youth and families including developing and testing telehealth ACT-based group therapy for youth with Cystic Fibrosis and equity-focused implementation strategies to support the uptake of evidence-based mental health services in schools.

Publications – Selected Works

• Liu, F. F., Coifman, J., McRee, E., Stone, J., Law, A., Gaias, L., Reyes, R., Lai, C. K., Blair, I. V., Yu, C. L., Cook, H., & Lyon, A. R. (2022). A Brief Online Implicit Bias Intervention for School Mental Health Clinicians. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(2), 679. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020679
• Liu, F. F., & Adrian, M. C. (2019). Is Treatment Working? Detecting Real Change in the Treatment of Child and Adolescent Depression. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(12), 1157–1164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.02.011
• Liu, F. F., Gonzales, N. A., Fernandez, A. C., Millsap, R. E., & Dumka, L. E. (2011). Family Stress and Coping for Mexican Origin Adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 40(3), 385–397. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2011.563463

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