Jennifer Murphy, Ph.D.

Dr. Jennifer A. Murphy is a staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Children and the Law Program and works primarily with court-involved children, adolescents, and families through the Suffolk County Juvenile Court system. Her research interests include comprehensive support services in public schools, children and adolescent’s capacity to understand legal proceedings, and inter-professional collaboration among mental health experts and lawyers advocating for children in legal contexts.

Dr. Murphy is a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, an Adjunct Lecturer in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Psychology at Boston College. She earned a master’s degree in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Risk and Prevention Program and subsequently worked in urban elementary and middle schools providing intervention and prevention services in collaboration with the Judge Baker Children’s Center. Dr. Murphy later earned a doctorate in psychology at Boston College and completed her internship and post-doctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School with specializations in the areas of adult, child, and family therapy, psychological and neuropsychological testing, and pediatric forensic psychology.