Joanna Kim

Joanna Kim is a prevention scientist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and REACH Institute at Arizona State University. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research examines how family processes, intervention delivery characteristics, and implementation contexts shape family engagement and the effectiveness of preventive interventions. Through this work, she aims to promote lasting benefits for all families and reduce behavioral health disparities among low-income, immigrant, and ethnoracially minoritized youth and families. She is particularly interested in strategies that promote families’ engagement with intervention services, active participation during sessions, and use of intervention skills in everyday life. She is also interested in qualitative methods to center families’ perspectives and inform the development, implementation, and refinement of preventive interventions. Her work on digital implementation strategies to strengthen caregiver home practice has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Administration for Children and Families.