Jun Yu has the unique combination of psychology from a Chinese perspective, and Chinese-English translation skills.
Jun began his education at Hangzhou Teachers College in Hangzhou, China, where he majored in English. Upon graduation in summer 2001, he taught English to college students for one semester at Yuying College in Hangzhou. After that, he worked as a translator for the China Chemical Network, where he translated ads for Chinese manufacturers from Chinese to English.
Jun then entered graduate school at Shanghai Normal University to pursue a master’s degree in psychology. During his studies, he translated a number of scholarly papers from English into Chinese including “Moral reasoning and education” and “Moral behavior and education” — two chapters in Educational Psychology — and “The teacher’s role in family education”, published in Teacher and Family Education. Jun graduated with an excellent mark on his thesis defense, a distinction only bestowed on a select few in his graduating class.
As a clinical psychology PhD student at Idaho State University since 2008, Jun is one of only a handful of psychology scholars from mainland China who have been admitted to a clinical psychology PhD program in the US.