Jami F. Young, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
Rutgers University

Jami Young, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fordham University and then completed a T32 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Young developed Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), a depression prevention program for adolescents. She has conducted three randomized controlled trials of IPT-AST, with a fourth underway. Dr. Young has trained and supervised clinicians in IPT-AST, as well as in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression. Her research examines the efficacy of depression prevention programs and risk and protective factors for youth depression.