Division of Clinical Psychology - Award Winner Alex Lau-Zhu , January 2024

Trainee Research Excellence Award

 

This year, the award goes to Dr Alex Lau-Zhu, who has completed the Oxford clinical psychology programme. His research work as a trainee is outstanding. He has published his quality improvement project on understanding digital risks for youths and his five case reports in areas that included a single case experimental design testing a CBT approach for health anxiety with OCD features, narrative therapy for an adult with Down’s syndrome and a novel CFT-based group for young people with developmental trauma. 

 

His highly innovative major theory driven project on understanding the differences between autism and developmental trauma has led to two publications. The findings were welcomed by families, schools and the charitable organisations involved. The DCP is proud to be able to present the award to Dr Alex Lau-Zhu, and looks forward to seeing his future contributions.