Young In Chung

Young In Chung is a Behavioral Medicine fellow in the Clinical and Community Psychology internship program at Yale School of Medicine. Her primary placement is at the Yale New Haven Hospital. She is also a doctoral candidate in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her master’s degree in the Clinical and Counseling Psychology program at Seoul National University. She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and Art History from Swarthmore College.

Young In has been broadly trained in using evidence-based treatments, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Transference-focused Psychodynamic Therapy, and Neuropsychology. She is passionate about working with patients with diverse physical health concerns who presents with co-occurring mood problems, substance use (tobacco cessation), sleep difficulties, pain, sexual health, and psycho-oncology in an integrated care setting.

Young In’s research focuses on examining the neural and psychological factors that make changing appetitive risk behaviors such as smoking or high caloric food consumption difficult. Her multi-method research approach integrates fMRI neuroimaging, experience sampling methods, questionnaires, and behavioral coding and tasks. Her dissertation focuses on individuals with comorbid emotional and substance use disorders. The project investigates transdiagnostic vulnerabilities that impact different motivational processes that underlie smoking lapses during cessation. Her long-term goal is to do translational research in the delivery of mechanism-based substance use treatment in medical settings as well as treatments for multiple health-risk behaviors.