Sumie Okazaki
Sumie Okazaki conducts research on the impact of immigration, community contexts, individual differences, and racial minority status on the mental health of Asian American individuals and families. She currently serves as Associate Editor of the journal Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and has co-edited two books: Asian American Psychology: The Science of Lives in Context (with Gordon C. N. Hall) and Asian American Mental Health: Assessment Theories and Methods (with Karen Kurasaki and Stanley Sue). With Nancy Abelmann (Anthropology, University of Illinois), Okazaki has been working on a study of Korean American teens and their immigrant parents in Chicago and on a study of Korean families' pursuit of cosmopolitan citizenship in context of global educational marketplace. She and her colleagues are also co-editing a book about young students from Korea who migrate to English-speaking countries for language education. Okazaki is the recipient of Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution from Asian American Psychological Association in 2000, Emerging Professional Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in 2003, and Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program in 2004. She is the Vice President-Elect of the Asian American Psychological Association. Okazaki received her doctorate in psychology from UCLA in 1994 and has taught in the psychology departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign prior to coming to Steinhardt.
Courses
E63.2682 Cross-cultural Counseling
E63.2038 Abnormal Psychology
Degrees Held
- PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
1994
Clinical Psychology - MA
University of California, Los Angeles
1992
Psychology - BS
University of Michigan
1988
Psychology
Publications
- David, E. J. R. & Okazaki, S. (in press). Activation and automaticity of colonial mentality. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
- Masood, N., Okazaki, S., & Takeuchi, D. T. (2009). Gender, family, and community correlates of mental health in South Asian Americans. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 15, 265-274.
- Okazaki, S. (2009). Impact of racism on ethnic minority mental health. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 103-107
- Okazaki, S., David, E. J. R., & Abelmann, N. (2008). Colonialism and psychology of culture. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 90-106. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00046.x
- 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.