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ASIAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
2008 ANNUAL CONVENTION

August 13, 2008
University of Massachusetts, Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125

“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Resisting Ethnocentrism,
Racism and Intersecting Oppressions:
Practice, Research, Theory, and Community Interventions”

Awards Banquet

The 2008 Awards Banquet will be held on August 13, 2008 at 6:45pm at Hei
La Moon, one of Chinatown's top restaurants.   One-way transportation
will be provided to the restaurant, with shuttle buses scheduled to
leave UMass-Boston at approximately 6:15pm.  Dinner will be a sumptuous
10-course feast that will include a variety of traditional and creative
Chinese dishes.

Banquet tickets must be purchased in advance via the online registration
system by July 23, 2008.  Due to space restrictions, no on-site tickets
will be available.  So buy your tickets now!

Site Details:
Hei La Moon
88 Beach Street
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 338-8813 

Accommodations

AAPA recommends that its members take advantage of the special rates
negotiated by the APA at a number of hotels in the downtown Boston area.
More information may be found at the APA website.

Directions to the AAPA Convention

University of Massachusetts, Boston
McCormack Building
100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125

By Car/Taxi:  The UMass campus is located approximately 4 miles from most of the APA headquarter hotels.  Google Maps estimates travel time by car at 14 minutes.  However, it can take considerably longer during rush hour due to traffic congestions on the highways, so please plan accordingly. Taxis can drop you off in front of the Campus Center.  See “From the Campus Center” below for further directions.  Detailed driving directions are available at http://www.umb.edu/parking_transport/directions.html

By Subway/T:  UMass is also reachable by the T.  If you are coming from the main headquarter hotels, take the Green line inbound to Park Street or the Silver Line inbound to South Station or Downtown Crossing.  Change to the Red line outbound towards Braintree OR Ashmont (either is fine).  Get off at JFK/UMass Station.  Take the free shuttle bus to the campus.  It will let you off in front of the campus center. See “From the Campus Center” below for further directions.  A map of the Boston subway is available at http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/

From the Campus Center (click here for map):  Walk up the stairs (outside or inside the building, or take the elevator up one floor), and through the building (away from the ocean).  As you exit the Campus Center, there will be a building diagonally to your left.  That is McCormack, where the AAPA Convention Registration is located.  Signs will be posted to further direct you to the registration area.

Community Partners

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Committed to access to excellence in teaching, research, and service, and distinguished by its diverse student population, the University of Massachusetts Boston offers the academic resources of a comprehensive university and the learning environment of a small private college. The university also serves its city and state through scholarship in many areas of vital importance to economic development, public policy, and civic life. Seven UMass Boston colleges offer more than 100 undergraduate majors, minors, and programs of study, and nearly 60 graduate programs, including 13 at the doctoral level. Nearly 30 university institutes and centers pursue research and public service in such areas as public policy; gerontology; media; labor; women in politics; African American, Latino, and Asian American issues; and environmental concerns. To learn more about UMass Boston--the only public university in the Greater Boston area--visit www.umb.edu.


Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at University of Massachusetts, Boston

The Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology is a "scientist-practitioner" program designed to train future academics,researchers and clinicians. The program prepares clinical psychologists who have an excellent foundation in psychological science and practice and are able to translate their basic knowledge into culturally/racially sensitive best practice applications to meet the needs of children, adolescents, and adults from diverse socio-cultural groups. The program's training model is bio-psycho-social in its scientific orientation, and places special emphasis on the process of development and the role of social-systemic variables in its understanding of human behavior. The course work highlights social and cultural approaches to normal and abnormal development, especially as they help to build an understanding of the perspectives of ethnic minority and low-income groups. A distinguishing feature of the program is its emphasis on recruiting and training students with a strong sense of social responsibility and the desire to work effectively with underserved populations. In 2001, the Program was awarded the APA Suinn Minority Achievement Award for its success in attracting, educating, and graduating significant numbers of ethnic minority graduate students, and for making cultural competence a central part of its curriculum. In 2007, it was ranked by Academic Analytics as one of the top 10 graduate programs in Clinical Psychology in the U.S. based on faculty productivity. To learn more about the Clinical Program go to
http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/psychology/graduate.html.


The Asian Mental Health Program, Cambridge Health Alliance

The Asian Mental Health Program (AMHP), previously known as the South Asian Mental Health Program, is part of the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Department of Psychiatry and is affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1998, the AMPH is the youngest cultural/linguistic mental health clinic at CHA. The AMHP is a community based service that provides care to people of Asian descent and other international, immigrant and refugee patients and groups. AMHP staff/trainees consist of bicultural and bilingual Asian clinicians that appreciate range of Asian backgrounds and experiences. Providers speak several Indian (e.g. Hindi, Bengali) and Chinese (e.g. Cantonese, Mandarin) dialects, Japanese and Vietnamese. Interpreters are available at no cost, whenever needs. Services include individual and group therapy with children, families and adults. Treatment may include psychotherapy, psychopharmacology and psychological evaluation and testing. All services respect both Western treatment and traditional Eastern healing practices. We also provide consultation and training to health providers, universities and other community groups. To make an appointment, get a referral or find out more information, please contact Kim Nghiem, PsyD at 617-591-6420 or call Central Intake at 617-591-6033.

South Cove Community Health Center

South Cove Community Health Center began as a grass roots organization by six physicians who recognized the inadequate provision of primary care services for local residents in Boston Chinatown due to language and cultural barriers.  They were unsuccessful in obtaining federal funding so in 1972, using their own funds, they started a healthcare center to serve the Chinatown community.  Thirty-five years later South Cove now serves more than 22,000 patients a year, has 5 sites around the Greater Boston area, and is one of very few comprehensive health centers serving Asian-American communities.  In 2000 South Cove participated in The Bridge Program, modeled after New York City’s Chinatown Health Clinic, which sought to integrate primary and mental health care.  At the core of this program was training of primary care physicians to recognize symptoms of common mental health disorders and training of nurses to “bridge” the care with behavioral health by consulting with the patient about the importance of mental health care and helping them to make their first appointment The Bridge Project was the first effort to screen for depression.  The Bridge Program improved treatment accessibility and acceptability among the patients. 

Because South Cove’s mission is to provide accessible and linguistically and culturally competent services, South Cove’s behavioral health team is also committed to the training of practicum students and interns.  We partner with several mainstream training programs such as Boston University Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Boston College, Northeastern University, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and University of Massachusetts to train 2-3 students each year.

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