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Sumie Okazaki (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1994) is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology in the Clinical-Community division. Her research is broadly concerned with refining our understanding of the impact of immigration and racialization on psychological functioning of ethnic minority individuals and families. She is especially interested in biculturalism and how the interplay of ethnocultural and minority factors impact upon mental health of Asian Americans. She and her students conduct studies that examine the relationships among culturally based concepts of the self and meanings, acculturation and racialization, and the experience and the expression of emotion and distress. She and her students use a variety of methodological approaches (including self-report, behavioral observations and ethnography, and analyses of individual and communal narratives).

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Asian American Psychology: The Science of Lives in Context