Asian Families in Canada and the United States

1. The Complexities of Asian Families from Around the World: Creating New Lives in Canada and the United States.- Part A: History, Religion, and Culture.- 2. Comparing and Contrasting Asian Families in Canada and the United States.- 3. Asian Families: Religion, Spirituality, and Worldviews.- Part B: Specific Countries and Regions of Origin.- East Asia.- 4. Chinese Families from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.- 5. Growing up in Two Worlds: Young Chinese Americans in New York City.- 6. Japanese Families.- 7. Korean Families.- South Asia.- 8. Bangladeshi Families.- 9. Indian Families.- 10. Pakistani Families.- West Asia.- 11. Arab Families from the Levant.- Part C: Counseling and Therapy for Mental Health and Wellbeing.- 12. Asian-Origin Families in Canada and the United States: Challenges and Resilience.- 13. Providing Therapy with Asian Immigrant Families: A Review of Prominent Issues and Treatment Considerations.- Part D: Methodology Considerations.- 14. Critically Assessingthe Methodological Challenges of Exploring Chinese.

Susan S. Chuang, Ph.D. (University of Rochester), is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research focuses on fathering, parenting, parent-child relationships of young children among immigrant and ethnic families in various sociocultural contexts (Asian: Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan; Latino/a: Paraguay, US; Black: Jamaica). Her second line of research examines families and immigration, collaborating with various national organizations in Canada. She conducts numerous volunteer workshops for the local communities that focus on various topics (e.g., parenting, education, child/youth development, employment). She has organized six international conferences on immigrant families.

 Roy Moodley, Ph.D. (University of Sheffield), is an Associate Professor in clinical and counseling psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Moodley is also the Director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy. His research interests include critical multicultural counseling and psychotherapy, race and culture in psychoanalysis, global south psychologies; traditional healing and mix-race relations.



 Uwe P. Gielen, Ph.D. (Harvard University), is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College, New York City, USA. His work focuses on cross-cultural and international psychology, Chinese American immigrant adolescents and young adults, international family psychology, and moral development. His more than 190 publications include 30 edited, co-edited, and co-authored volumes and nine special journal issues. He has lectured in 34 countries and has served as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, the International Council of Psychologists, and the International Psychology Division (52) of the American Psychological Association.



 

Saadia Akram, Ed.D. (University of Toronto), is a