Dr. Joyce H. L. Lui

Education

Our lab focuses on youth externalizing behaviours, including ADHD, disruptive behaviours, and callous-unemotional traits. We aim to deepen our understanding of how to effectively treat these behaviours and ensure the successful implementation of treatments in both clinical and community settings.

We have several complementary lines of research: 

1. Examine developmental mechanisms and risk and protective factors that contribute to externalizing behaviours

2. Develop, evaluate, and optimize interventions to decrease externalizing behaviours 

3. Examine and evaluate implementation strategies to successfully and sustainably implement effective interventions into routine child-serving systems  

4. Examine and reduce inequities in mental health care access and utilization for diverse youth with externalizing behaviours 

We use a variety of research methodologies including analyses of service or health data (e.g., insurance claims, electronic health records), clinical trials, community stakeholder-engaged designs, and data science methods (e.g., natural language processing and machine learning). 

Please visit our lab website for details on current projects. 

Active Grants

Psyc 340 - Fundamentals of Psychopathology
Psyc 701 - Psychometrics, Intelligence, and Neurocognitive Evaluation
Psyc 8104 - Advanced Child & Adolescent Psychopathology 

• Lui, J. H. L, Chen, B. C., Benson, B. A., Lin, Y. R., Ruiz, A., & Lau, A. S. (in press). Inpatient Care Utilization Following Mobile Crisis Response Encounters Among Racial/Ethnic Minoritized Youth. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.06.021

• Lui, J. H. L, Danko, C., Triece, T.*, Bennett, I. M., Marschall, D., Lorenzo, N., Stein, M. A., & Chronis-Tuscano, A. (2023). Screening for parent and child ADHD in urban pediatric primary care: Pilot implementation and stakeholder perspectives. BMC Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04082-2  

• Chen, B.*, Lui, J. H. L., Benson, L. A., Lin, Y. R., Ponce, N. A., & Lau, A. S. (2023). After the crisis: Racial/ethnic disparities and predictors of care use following psychiatric emergencies. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 52(3), 360-375.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2022.2127103. (Chen and Lui are joint first authors) 

• Chen, B.*, Lui, J. H. L., Liu, V., Wright, B. A., Benson, L. A., Lin, Y. R., & Lau, A. S. (2022). Mapping racial/ethnic disparities in youth psychiatric emergencies and associations with neighborhood racial composition, child opportunity, and inequality. Clinical Psychological Science.  https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221121762

• Lau, A. S., Lind, T., Motamedi, M., Lui, J. H. L., Kuckertz, M., Brookman-Frazee, L. (2021). Prospective predictors of sustainment of multiple EBPs in a system-driven multiple-EBP context: Examining sustained delivery based on administrative claims. Implementation Research and Practice.  https://doi.org/10.1177/26334895211057884

• Lui, J. H. L., Brookman-Frazee, L. Vásquez, A. L.*, Cox, J., Innes-Gomberg, D., Taguchi, K., Pesanti, K., & Lau, A. S., (2021). Patterns of child mental health service utilization within a multiple EBP system of care.  Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-021-01179-7 

• Lui, J. H. L., Brookman-Frazee, L., Lind, T., Le, K.*, Roesch, S., Aarons, G. A., Innes-Gomberg, D., Pesanti, K., & Lau, A. S. (2021). Outer context determinants in the sustainment phase of a reimbrsement-driven implementation of evidence-based practices in children’s mental health services. Implementation Science, 16, 82.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-021-01149-5

• Lui, J. H. L., Brookman-Frazee, L., Smith, A., Lind, T., Terrones, L., Rodriguez, A., Motamedi, M., Villodas, M., & Lau, A. S. (2021). Implementation facilitation strategies to promote routine progress monitoring among community therapists. Psychological Services. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000456

• Motamedi, M., Lau, A. S., Lind, T., Lui, J. H. L., Le, K.*, Rodriguez, A., Smith, A., & Brookman-Frazee, L. (2021). What educational strategies and mechanisms facilitate EBP use? A mixed methods examination of therapist perceptions within a system-driven implementation of multiple EBPs. Implementation Research and Practice, 2, 1-15. doi:10.1177/2633489520982903

• Barnett, M. L., Brookman-Frazee, L., Yu, S., Lind, T., Lui, J. H. L., Timmer, S., Boyce, D., & Lau, A. S. (2021). Train-to-sustain: Predictors of sustainment in a large-scale implementation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 6, 262-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/23794925.2020.1855613

• Brodar, K. E., Davis, E. M., Lynn, C., Starr-Glass, L., Lui, J. H. L., Sanchez, J., & Delamater, A. (2021). Comprehensive psychosocial screening in a diverse pediatric diabetes clinic. Pediatrics Diabetes, 22, 656-666. https://doi.org/10.1111/pedi.13193

• Lee-Rowland, L., Lui, J. H. L., Bortfeld, D., Barry, C. T., & Reiter, S. (2020). Internalizing problems and their impact on the relation between callous-unemotional traits, narcissism, and aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 46, 278-286. doi: 10.1002/ab.21888

• Lui, J. H. L., Barry, C. T., & Marcus, D.  (2019). A short-term intervention for adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and emotion-processing deficits. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 38, 475-500. 

• Lui, J. H. L., Marcus, D. K., & Barry, C. T. (2017). Evidence-based apps? A review of mental health mobile applications in a psychotherapy context. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 48, 199-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pro0000122

• Barry, C. T., Lui, J. H. L., & Anderson, A. C.* (2017). Adolescent narcissism, aggression, and prosocial behavior: The relevance of socially desirable responding.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 99, 46-55. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2016.1193812

• Lui, J. H. L., Barry, C. T., & Sergiou, C.* (2017). Interventions for improving affective abilities in adolescents: An integration across community and clinical samples of adolescents. Adolescent Research Review, 2, 229-249. doi: 10.1007/s40894-016-0047-7

• Lui, J. H. L., Barry, C. T., & Sacco, D. F. (2016). Callous-unemotional traits and empathy deficits: Mediating effects of affective perspective-taking and facial emotion recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 1049-1062. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1047327

• Lui, J. H. L., Johnston, C., Lee, C. M., & Lee-Flynn, S. C. (2013). Parental ADHD symptoms and self-reports of positive parenting. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 81, 988-998. doi: 10.1037/a003349