Melissa DeRosier, PhD, is a clinical psychologist whose research and clinical work is dedicated to improving social, emotional, and behavioral health. For more than 15 years, Melissa has investigated how to bridge researchāproven methods for assessment and intervention into realāworld settings so that youth and their families can directly benefit. She has written extensively in this area, publishing dozens of journal articles and book chapters.
Melissa has served as Principal Investigator for more than 30 federally funded grants from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Through these funded projects, Melissa has created more than a dozen rigorously researched socialāemotional interventions, which are currently used by schools and clinics with thousands of children across the United States and abroad. A particular focus of her current work is understanding how emerging technologies can be effectively used to scale up researchābased programs more broadly in schools and community healthcare settings.
Melissa obtained her masterās degree in child developmental psychology from the University of Virginia and received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2001, she founded 3C Institute, a research and development company devoted to the creation and delivery of evidenceābased tools that promote health and well-being, with a focus on social, emotional, and behavioral health.
Melissa is the editor of Social Skills Assessment Through Games: The New Best Practice, a book in which she and others review social skills research literature and demonstrate how game-based social skills assessment can transcend the limitations of traditional methods.
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