Merissa Braza Ocampo PhD

Dr. Merissa Braza Ocampo is currently, a full-time lecturer at Fukushima Gakuin University, her interdisciplinary work combines linguistics and health, looking particularly at the impact of Anxiety, Burnout, and Stress (ABS) on learners and teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Currently, she is focusing on the effectiveness of positive psychology and mindful self-compassion to cope with ABS among teachers. Ocampo wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on mother and child nutrition and health status.

Having direct personal experience guiding family members through the Japanese education system to the tertiary level, her current research explores the Family Environment Mode Approach (FEMA) in language teaching. A naturalized Japanese, Ocampo is also able to draw upon her knowledge of both Japanese and Filipino languages and culture to support an intercultural perspective in her work. She is currently developing FEMA more extensively and coordinating a Positive Psychology Intervention-related modular Storybook project for teaching learners from young to adult, nutrition, and health concepts in English.