Asian American Psychological Association

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Welcome to the Asian American Psychological Association!

As a community of diverse graduate students, researchers, teachers, and practitioners in psychology, our Association has been working since 1972 to advance the psychological well-being of Asian American communities through affecting professional practice, research, and teaching.

For our members, we offer mentoring and networking opportunities, forums to disseminate research and scholarship, structures to share information and receive support, and awards and initiatives to recognize contributions to Asian American psychology. Some of the most visible services provided to members are: 1) our Email Listserv (for sharing information, posting job announcements, discussing relevant issues); 2) our Newsletter; and 3) our Annual National Convention.

AAPA also provides much to the discipline of psychology and to Asian American communities. Our members and initiatives have positively impacted psychological treatment, education, training, research, policy and social justice advocacy, through research dissemination, organizational policy statements and collaboration with other psychological organizations for publications, training initiatives, and disseminating resources for serving Asian American communities.

As the President and Vice President of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA), we welcome you to our organization. Our initiatives for the current year include:

• Advancing leadership development: Developing further pipelines of leadership and expanding leadership opportunities to impact the discipline of psychology, such as the possible APA council seat for a representative of AAPA

• Continuing community collaboration (e.g. continuing Conference initiative aimed at community connections and continuing collaboration with community agencies)

• Increasing the visibility and the impact of AAPA on the psychological well-being of Asian American communities (e.g. redeveloping our website to provide more services and continuing the initiative of publishing an Asian American psychology journal).

We invite all professionals interested in Asian American psychology to become members, to join our community’s efforts in the service of psychological health and social justice for Asian Americans.

Enjoy exploring our organization and community through our website. We hope you find interesting and valuable information pertaining to Asian American psychology and mental health. Please feel free to contact us to discuss issues related to Asian American psychology. The contact information for our Executive Committee is located on the left under the “About AAPA” link.

Karen Suyemoto, Ph.D., President and Nita Tewari, Ph.D., Vice President