Rate My Professor Shashank Joshi

His academic interests center on school mental health, youth wellbeing, positive psychology, pediatric psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, therapeutic alliance, cultural competence in pediatrics, suicide prevention in educational settings, and faculty development. Joshi teaches Stanford psychology courses like PSYC 151: Wellbeing on The Farm, focusing on emotional problem-solving skills. He has earned prestigious honors such as the Stanford Polymath Award (2021), Association for Academic Psychiatry Roberts Award for Mentorship (2018), American Psychiatric Association Nancy C.A. Roeske Award (2017), AACAP Sidney Berman Award (2016), and AACAP Distinguished Fellowship (2015). Notable publications include Strategies for Reducing Suicide at Railroads (2024), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents (2024, Pediatrics), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (2024, Pediatrics in Review), co-edited Partnerships for Mental Health (2015), and Thinking About Prescribing: The Psychology of Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth & Families (2022). Through national leadership in AACAP and AAP committees, Joshi advances school-based mental health practices and youth suicide prevention.