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Clinical/Community Division
Sumie Okazaki is now at New York University. She is not admitting doctoral students for Fall 2010.
My research is broadly concerned with refining our understanding of the impact of immigration, ethnocultural socialization, and racialization on psychological functioning of ethnic minority individuals and families. I am especially interested in how the interplay of community contexts, ethnocultural factors, and racial minority status impact upon mental health of Asian Americans. My students and I conduct studies that examine the relationships among cultural meanings, cultural socialization and acculturation, racialization, and the experience and the expression of emotion and distress. We use a variety of methodological approaches (including self-report, behavioral observations and ethnography, and analyses of individual and communnity narratives).
Representative Publications:
- Lee, M. R., Okazaki, S., & Yoo, H. C. (2006). Frequency and intensity of social anxiety in Asian Americans and European Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 12, 291-351.
- Okazaki, S., Lee, R. M., & Sue, S. (2006). Theoretical and conceptual models: Toward Asian Americanist psychology. In F. T. L Leong, A. Inman, A. Ebreo, L. Yang, L. Kinoshita, & M. Fu (Eds.) Handbook of Asian American Psychology, 2nd ed. (pp. 29-46). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- David, E.J.R., & Okazaki, S. (2006). The Colonial Mentality Scale (CMS) for Filipino Americans: Scale construction and psychological implications. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53, 241-252.
- Okazaki, S. (2002). Beyond questionnaires: Conceptual and methodological innovations in Asian American psychology. In G. C. N. Hall & S. Okazaki (Eds.) Asian American psychology: The science of lives in context (pp. 13-39). Washington, DC: APA Books.
- Okazaki, S., Liu, J. F., Longworth, S. L., & Minn, J. Y. (2002). Asian American-White American differences in expressions of social anxiety: A replication and extension. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 8, 234-247.