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Working Toward Healthy Minds
Surgeon general says minorities face mental health care hurdles
By Asianweek Staff & Wire Reports
Mental illness has long been stigmatized in Asian and Asian Pacific Islander American cultures. That hasn’t curved incidences of mental diseases, however.
One group working to that end is the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA), a nonprofit founded 30 years ago. The national organization held its annual conference on Aug. 23 in San Francisco, in conjunction with the American Psychological Association’s annual convention. Topics discussed included: constructions of gender in APIA psychology, clinical training of APIA psychology graduate students, Filipino American identity development, racial identity in psychotherapy, and the lives of APIA men.
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