Marie Yap

Associate

Marie Yap is an Associate Professor and Psychologist at Monash University’s Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences. Marie is passionate about seeing families thrive, through empowering parents in the important role they play in their child’s development and well-being.

She is founder of the award-winning Parenting Strategies Program, which translates research evidence into actionable parenting guidelines that underpin a suite of individually-tailored online parenting interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of mental health problems in children and adolescents. On average, the parenting guidelines are downloaded >10,000 times a month, and are cited or have formed the basis for online parenting resources in over 20 countries.

Recognised by Expertscape as a World Expert in parent-child relations (top 0.1% worldwide and top 3 in Australia, based on her Scopus-listed publications), she has extensive experience developing and implementing scalable digital parenting programs that have improved parenting and child mental health outcomes.

Her online parenting interventions and resources have been rolled out nationally in Australia, translated into 3 other languages, and adopted in the UK, New Zealand, Malaysia and Brazil. The impact of her work has been recognised by a Young Tall Poppy Award, Scopus Young Investigator Award, and an Australian Rotary Health Mental Health Impact Award.

Her research has attracted over A$23M in competitive research funding from national and international sources.

She has authored 88 peer-reviewed publications, including 73% as first or senior author, and 2 in the top 1% most cited worldwide. She is Deputy Editor of the Mental Health & Prevention journal, and co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Growing Minds Australia, the first national clinical trials network in child and youth mental health in Australia.