Asian Families in Canada and the United States

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 registered psychologist with the Ontario College of Psychologists and operates her private practice in the Greater Toronto Areas (GTA), Canada, and also works within the non-profit, community based sector. She has more than 25 years of experience delivering individual/group psychological services and professional development trainings to a wide variety of diverse and multicultural populations.