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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”
Preliminary
Program
Doris F. Chang and Grace S. Kim, Conference Co-Chairs
Co-sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Boston, South Cove
Community Health Center, the Asian Mental Health Team of the Cambridge
Health Alliance, and the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
Conference
Committee
Conference
Co-Chairs: Doris Chang & Grace Kim,
Program
Chairs: Verna Fabella Hicks & Jocelyn Buhain
Session
Chairs: Joyce Chu & Jennie Park-Taylor
Poster
Chairs: Sara Cho Kim & Shihoko Hijioka
Banquet
Coordinators: Sue Lambe & Catherine Bitney
Volunteer
Coordinators: Patricia Lee & Matthew Lee
Booksale
Chairs: Stephanie Pituc & Minsun Lee
Mentor-Mentee
Program Chair: Annie Gupta
Award
Committee Chair: Fred Leong
Registration
Chairs: Vali Kahn & Jonathan Kaplan
Vice-President: Karen Suyemoto
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
AAPA Conference Related Awards and
Application Process
AAPA 2008
Dissertation and Student Travel Grants. Students whose
dissertation topic is related to Asian American psychology are
encouraged to apply to the dissertation grant (Award: $500). Students
traveling to 2008 AAPA conference can apply for a student travel grant
(Average Award: $200). AAPA student presenters who have paid dues for
2007 and 2008 are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to first
authors, students who have not received the award before, and students
traveling longer distances to theconvention. Following
the acceptance of your proposal, students should send
application materials to the AAPA Awards Chair: Fred Leong at fleong@utk.edu.
The deadline for each grant is May 15. A copy
of the grant application can be downloaded from the Files section of
the DoS list serv: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAPADoS/files/.
Division on
Women (DoW) Awards. The DoW offers two awards:
The
Division on Women Award is given to a presenter of a
session related to psychological issues of Asian and Pacific Islander
women to celebrate and highlight work on Asian American women's issues.
Following the acceptance of your proposal, applicants interested in the
DoW Award should send application materials to the DoW co-chairs: Juli
Fraga at drjulifraga@gmail.com
or Elayne Chou
at elaynechou@comcast.net.
The
Alice F. Chang Student Scholar Award is given to the best
poster presentation related to the mental health of Asian and Pacific
Islander women. All accepted and presented posters submitted by
students as the first author are considered for this award. The best
poster will be judged and awarded at the convention.
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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