A woman with straight dark hair wearing a white blazer and patterned top stands outdoors on a city street, looking at the camera.

Mary Jia, Ph.D., R.Psych.

Clinical Faculty

Adler Community Health Services

Vancouver

mjia@adler.edu

OVERVIEW

Dr. Jia is a clinical faculty member of Adler Community Health Services (ACHS) at Adler University. She supervises both Psy.D. practicum students and interns in providing assessment and therapy to the community. She graduated from the University of British Columbia. Her research dissertation focused on social functioning in children with behavioural problems. Dr. Jia has a private practice where she provides treatment for anxiety disorders, ADHD, and emotional dysregulation. She also has a passion for supporting first- and second-generation immigrants from East Asia by providing culturally sensitive care. Her primary modalities for therapy are Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS

Publications

Social Resilience in Children with ADHD: Parent and Teacher Factors.

2021 Journal of Child and Family Studies. 30. 10.1007/s10826-021-01907-5.
Author(s): Jia, M. & Mikami, A. & Normand, S.

Positively biased self-perceptions in children with ADHD: Unique predictor of future maladjustment.

2015 Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
Author(s): Jia, M., Jiang, Y., & Mikami, A. Y.
Publication Link: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-015-0056-1

Peer preference and friendship quantity in children with externalizing behavior: Distinct influences on bully status and victim status.

2015 Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43(5), 957-969.
Author(s): Jia, M., & Mikami, A.Y.

Presentations

Protection against bullying/victimization in children with ADHD: Quantity, quality, or friends’ characteristics? In A.Y. Mikami (chair), Understanding social impairment in children with ADHD: Cognitive, social, and physiological moderators.

2017 Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the International Society for
Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Author(s): Jia, M., Mikami, A. Y., Normand, S.

The positive bias in Children with ADHD: Unique predictor of future maladjustment.

2015 Poster accepted for International Society for Research in Child and
Adolescent Psychopathology, Portland OR.
Author(s): Jia, M., Jiang, Y., & Mikami, A.Y.

Externalizing behavior, peer relationships, and bullying and peer victimization: Distinct pathways in boys and girls.

2014 Poster accepted for 28th Annual Association of Behavioral and Cognitive
Therapies Convention, Philadelphia PA.
Author(s): Jia, M, & Mikami A.Y.

The positive illusory bias in Children with ADHD: Unique predictor of future maladjustment.

2014 Poster accepted for Canadian Psychology Association Annual Conference,
Vancouver BC.
Author(s): Jia, M., Jiang, Y., & Mikami, A.Y.

The role of peer preference and friendship in the development of bullying and peer victimization in children with externalizing behaviour.

2014 Poster accepted for Canadian Psychology Association Annual Conference,
Vancouver BC.
Author(s): Jia, M., Mikami, A.Y., & Jiang, Y.