Jocelyn Meza, PhD
Jocelyn Meza, PhD, is the director of the evaluation core of the Child Mind Institute’s Youth Mental Health Academy. She works with a team of experts to develop rigorous mixed methods for evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of the Youth Mental Health Academy and its core components. Dr. Meza’s research interests include studying socio-ecological risk and protective factors for suicide and self-harming behaviors among Black and Latinx adolescents and young adults. She aims to integrate psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural influences to predict suicide and self-harm behaviors and, importantly, to identify therapeutic targets for culturally responsive interventions for ethnoracially minoritized youth. In addition, Dr. Meza is expanding her research to developing and testing digital tools for suicide prevention for college students.
Dr. Meza is a certified bilingual psychologist trained at UC Berkeley and UCSF in cognitive-behavior and dialectical behavior therapies. Dr. Meza’s work in advancing mental health treatments among ethnoracially minoritized families has been recognized by the National Latinx Psychology Association and has received research funding from NSF, Ford Foundation, National Institute of Health (NIH), and PCORI.
Education and Training
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, [2020-2021]
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, [2019-2020]
- Clinical Internship, Clinical Psychology, University of California, San Francisco, [2017-2019]
- PhD, Clinical Science, University of California, Berkeley, [2014-2019]
- MA, Clinical Science, University of California, Berkeley, [2012-2014]
- BA, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, [2008-2012]
