We presented two papers as part of the session “Asian Americans in a Post-Covid World: Meaning-Making, Resistance, Radical Healing and Social Action,” chaired by our primary investigator, Dr. Doris Chang.
Courteney and Beverly presented a paper on Filipino Asian-American Identity as part of our qualitative study.
Dr. Sumie Okazaki, our primary investigator, presented the work in progress on skin tone and coalition identity among Asian Americans.
Thanks to everyone who attended the session!
Yoo, N., Nicholson, H., Chang, D.F., & Okazaki, S., (2023) Mapping Anti-Asian Xenophobia: State-level Variation in Implicit and Explicit Bias against Asian Americans across the United States. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. doi: 10.1177/23780231231196517
https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231196517
Chang, D. F., Yoo, N., Lee, C. S., Prasai, A., & Okazaki, S. (2023). From racial awakening to collective action: Asian Americans’ pathways to activism and benevolent support during COVID-19. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000617
On July 20, the Biden-Harris Administration hosted its inaugural mental health summit focused on improving equity and access to behavioral health care for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities. The historic event, hosted by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is being held in recognition of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month and builds on the Administration’s unprecedented investments to connect more Americans to care.
Dr. Doris Chang, our co-PI of the CARA/ABRA project, spoke about ABRA data and the mental health and activism among LGBTQ Asian Americans.
I also want to point out we looked at LGBTQ populations within our Asian American sample and found extraordinarily high rates of exposure to discrimination and high rates of suicidal ideation.
So we want to acknowledge the incredible diversity, heterogeneity, and experiences. (…) This moment has also been a really incredible moment of awakening for so many of us.
Liang, B., Palis, R.C., Chowdhury, S., Liu, Z., Zhao, A., Chen, J., Kim, S., Okazaki, S., Chang, D.F. (2023, Jul). Narrativizing Chinese American Identity and Critical Consciousness during COVID-19. Paper presentation at the American Psychological Association Division 45 Research Conference. San Diego, CA.
Okazaki, S.,* Chang, D.F., Yoo, N., Nicholson, H., & Craig, M. (2023, Jul). Ethnic Media in Asian-Black Cross-Racial Solidarity and Mental Health. Paper presentation at the American Psychological Association Division 45 Research Conference. San Diego, CA.
PhD Student Aakriti Prasai received the best poster award for the Association for Behavioral Cognitive Therapy’s Student Special Interest Group for the paper “How are coping styles related to mental health outcomes for Asian Americans?”🎉🎉 Here is the poster that Aakriti will present at the ABCT conference.
Our recent publication was highlighted by the NYU Institute of Human Development and Social Change! Please check out the following article 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS on winning the Poster Awards for the AAPA 2022 Convention 🎉
Our Summer QUEST Scholar Jason Le Received the Best Poster Award for AAPA Convention 2022! The research project title is “mediating role of assimilated identity in the relationship between racial discrimination and mental health outcomes for Southeast Asian Americans.”
