Rate My Professor Jacqueline Tilley

Jacqueline Lee Tilley is an Assistant Professor with the Psychology and Child & Human Development Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She holds an M.A./Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical Science) from the University of Southern California, USA, and an M.Phil. in Education and Psychology from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is a registered psychologist in Singapore and a licensed psychologist in New York, USA. Tilley completed her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Stony Brook University, USA, where she received intensive training in dialectical behavior therapy and worked with high-risk adolescents and adults. She has also worked in hospital and clinic settings with patients experiencing mood, anxiety, psychotic, and personality disorders in the USA, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Her research focuses on identifying mental health risk and resilience mechanisms in Asian families, with an emerging interest in how achievement pressures affect youth and their families, as well as understanding issues related to treatment engagement and outcomes among underserved groups. Her work has been presented at major international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals such as Child Development, the Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology, and the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.