Rita Chi-Ying Chung
Qualifications
- CACR Honorary Fellow
- Professor Emerita, George Mason University, U.S.A.
Category
Honorary Fellow
About
Rita Chi-Ying Chung (鍾賜英) is a cross-cultural psychologist who obtained her PhD from Victoria University of Wellington (Te Herenga Waka), New Zealand. She is currently Professor Emerita at George Mason University (GMU), U.S.A.
She received the first N.Z. Medical Research Council (MRC – now Health Research Council [HRC]) Public Health Overseas Fellowship to study psychosocial adjustment of immigrants and refugees at the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). During that time, she was the project director of the U.S. NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) funded Chinese American Psychiatric Epidemiological Study.
Dr. Chung is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, and the Association for Specialists in Group Work. Her research focuses on cross-cultural psychology, social justice and human rights, immigrant and refugee psychosocial adjustment, racial injustice, the trafficking of Asian children, and post-disaster counseling. She has lived in five countries and has worked in the Asia Pacific Rim region, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Dr. Chung has published extensively on these issues including her recent co-authored book entitled “Social Justice Multicultural Psychology and Counseling,” and has presented and consulted globally on such projects as Save the Children, UK human trafficking program in Myanmar (Burma) and for the U.S. Armed Forces on a high-profile military court-martial regarding cultural factors related to sexual abuse and rape. She was also an invited speaker at the United Nations to present on cultural factors in sex trafficking of Asian women/girls. She was awarded the Commonwealth of Virginia Commendation Award for her social justice and human rights work and recipient for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s highest award in academia – the State Council for Higher Education of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award. She also received the GMU Spirit of the King (Martin Luther King) award for her work on anti-racist behavior and race dialogues, and the GMU Presidential Medal of Honor for Diversity and Inclusion.