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Christine Boram Cha is an Honorary Research Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, affiliated with the Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on applying cognitive and social psychology principles to understand suicide and self-injury in youth, emphasizing objective risk assessment, cognitive risk factors, and developmental differences between adolescents and adults. Her work utilizes laboratory experiments, hospital data, and meta-analyses.
She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a predoctoral clinical psychology internship from Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School, and degrees from Harvard (M.A.) and Wellesley College (B.A.).
Her research interests include cognitive markers of suicidal ideation, behavioral prediction of self-injury, and improving clinical assessment methods. Her publications explore topics like attentional bias, machine learning in diagnosis, and emergency care impacts on suicidal patients.
Cha’s lab (Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Studies) investigates developmental and clinical psychology issues, particularly in youth mental health. She collaborates widely, contributing to journals like Nature Human Behavior and Clinical Psychology Review.
