Associate Professor
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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Kay Chang, Psy.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Macau. She is a California Licensed Clinical Psychologist in US, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist in UK, Registered Psychologist in Hong Kong, and a Registered Psychotherapist in Macau. She is also an internationally certified addiction specialist working in the field since 1994. Dr. Chang’s diverse and extensive background included chemical dependency program, hospital inpatient work, community mental health clinic setting, family and at-risk youths outreach projects, university counseling, crisis respond team, supervision duties, as well as developing and directing a multicultural addiction program. Besides enjoying teaching, Dr. Chang is noticeably active with developing local community psychological services, providing supervisions, global executive consultations and motivating trainings while volunteering for abuses and disaster trauma works. Her major research interests include the applied aspects of positive psychology, ethnic mental health, supervision issues, gambling behaviors, creativity factors, trauma exposures and resilient capacities.
Representative publications and presentations
- Hall, B. J., Sou, K., Chen, W., Zhou, F., Chang, K., & Latkin, C. (2016). An Evaluation of the Buffering Effects of Types and Sources of Support on Depressive Symptoms Among Natural Disaster-Exposed Chinese Adults. Psychiatry, 79(4), 389–402. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2016.1158004 #First authors contributed equally. Impact factor: 3.05