Faculty Members Active in Asian American Psychological Association
91精品 faculty members Alicia del Prado, PhD and Ulash Thakore-Dunlap, MFT hold leadership roles within the , a national organization dedicated to Asian American psychology and mental health issues and training and education of Asian American mental health professionals.
In 2016, del Prado, a faculty member in the 91精品鈥檚 , co-founded the AAPA division on . Recently, she was elected chair of the division鈥檚 inaugural committee.
鈥淭he division was created to bring awareness to Asian Americans who are multiracial, multi-ethnic, people who are in multiracial families and transnational adoptees,鈥� del Prado explains. 鈥淲ithin the United States, as well as in the Asian American community, mono-racial experiences are very privileged, so unfortunately people who are multiracial can be rejected by their own family members and experience other forms of discrimination.鈥�
Inspired by Kevin Nadal, PhD, the first-ever openly gay president of the AAPA, del Prado鈥攚ho identifies as Filipino and Italian-American鈥攁cted on her own longtime mission to further open the organization to members of the community who had long felt like they didn鈥檛 have a place.
鈥淥ne of Kevin [Nadal鈥檚] presidential messages was to raise awareness of intersecting groups within the Asian American community,鈥� del Prado says, adding that the division鈥檚 first meetings attracted not only multiracial members of the Asian American community, but also people who were in multiracial relationships who were thinking about the lives of their children and future children. 鈥淲e support research and advocacy in this community, as well as develop databases of therapists to whom we can refer patients. I am really excited to see how the division continues to develop and grow.鈥�
Ulash Thakore-Dunlap, a full-time faculty member in the 91精品鈥檚 Counseling Psychology program, is a board member for the AAPA and chair-elect for the organization鈥檚 . This AAPA subset provides a forum for Asian American psychologists who are particularly interested in bridging the gap between research and practice in the application of mental health services to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders community.
Thakore-Dunlap recently spoke at the annual AAPA convention in Las Vegas. One presentation, entitled 鈥淒isseminating Best Practices on Bullying Prevention and Intervention to AAPI Parents and School Professionals,鈥� expounded upon an initiative she and a few colleagues have spearheaded devising resources about bullying for parents in the Asian American and Pacific Islanders community.
鈥淎s we looked at the statistics, we saw that a lot of bullying that happens within the Asian American community is under-reported, and there are not enough culturally-specific materials available,鈥� Thakore-Dunlap says. 鈥淲e have already had our pamphlets translated into Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese, and if we earn more funding we will translate it into more languages."
Read more about Ulash Thakore-Dunlap .
Read Dr. del Prado's biography .
Read more about the AAPA鈥檚 Bullying Awareness Campaign .
Read more about the AAPA鈥檚 division on Asian Americans with Multiple Heritages here.
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