Prof. Dr. Yuqing Zhang is an Associate Researcher, Master's Supervisor, and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His doctoral degree was jointly developed by the Department of Psychology at Peking University and the Department of Psychology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. After that, he continued to work as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Educational Psychology, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 1992 to 2000. He has served as a member, secretary, and deputy director of the Medical Psychology Professional Committee of the Chinese Psychological Society, a registered clinical psychologist in British Columbia, Canada, and the first student of the Sino-German Senior Psychotherapist Family Therapy Group. The research projects he undertakes include the study of the psychological mechanisms and interventions for the post-traumatic growth of survivors of natural disasters, ethnic differences, and social psychological patterns in post-earthquake psychological stress responses, and the subsequent risk decision making of Chinese people after sudden public events, etc. His research areas include
personality psychology, disaster psychology, psychological measurements, the development and analysis of psychological tests and scales, psychological counseling and therapy, and individual differences and behavioral problems in children.
