Monica Wu

Monica Wu, Ph.D. is currently a Senior Clinical Product Manager at Lyra Health, where she leads the clinical development of evidence-based blended care programs for youth and families and conducts program evaluation research. She previously served on faculty in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Her research and clinical interests lie in investigating factors that may predict and/or augment treatment response in anxiety disorders and OCD, as well as examining the role families play in the therapeutic process. Specifically, she has a keen interest in the phenomenon of family accommodation (FA); her FA-related work has been published in Clinical Psychology Review and Psychological Assessment, researching the assessment, phenomenology, and clinical correlates of FA. Future directions of interest involve technology-enhanced adjuncts to treatment to target FA, as well as better understanding factors that may impact the frequency and presentation of FA. Dr. Wu participated in adapting the Family Accommodation Scale Self-Rated (FAS-SR) for OCD patient use to create the Family Accommodation Patient Version (FAS-PV); she spearheaded the examination of the psychometric properties of the adapted instrument.