Derald Wing Sue Biography

Derald Wing Sue is Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College and the School of Social Work Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and has served as a training faculty member with the Institute for Management Studies and the Columbia University Executive Training Programs. He was the Co-Founder and first President of the Asian American Psychological Association past presidents of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45) and the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17). Dr. Sue is a member of the American Counseling Association Fellows of the American Psychological Association the American Psychological Society and the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology. Dr. Sue has served as Editor of the Personnel and Guidance Journal (now the Journal for Counseling and Development) is Associate Editor of the American Psychologist Editorial Member to Asian Journal of Counselling and has been or continues to be a consulting editor for numerous journals and publications.
Derald Wing Sue can truly be described as a pioneer in the field of multicultural psychology multicultural education multicultural counseling and therapy and the psychology of racism/antiracism. He has done extensive multicultural research and writing in psychology and education long before the academic community perceived it favorably and his theories and concepts have paved the way for a generation of younger scholars interested in issues of minority mental health and multicultural psychology. He is author of over 150 publications 15 books and numerous media productions. In all of these endeavors his commitment to multiculturalism has been obvious and his contributions have forced the field to seriously question the monocultural knowledge base of its theories and practices. As evidence of his professional impact Dr. Sue's book COUNSELING THE CULTURALLY DIVERSE: THEORY AND PRACTICE 2008 5th Edition (with David Sue - John Wiley & Sons Publishers) has been identified as the most frequently cited publication in the multicultural field; since its first edition it has been considered a classic and used by nearly 50% of the graduate counseling psychology market. With the help of many colleagues he chaired committees for the Society of Counseling Psychology and the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development that resulted in laying the foundations for the cultural competency movement in the delivery of mental health services to an increasingly diverse population.

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