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Individuals of Asian descent are a demographic often overlooked in mainstream body image scholarship. Historically, body image concerns were thought to only affect white,… Read more
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Yuying Tsong, Ph.D., is a professor of Human Services and the Associate Vice President of Student Success and Academic Support at California State University, Fullerton. Their research, scholarship, and professional activities center on Asian American psychology and mental health, body image, disordered eating, and help-seeking and healing, especially in racial/ethnic/sexual/gender/immigrants and other minoritized communities. Dr. Tsong’s backgrounds also include clinical practices at community mental health organizations in the Los Angeles metro area and at the University of California Irvine Counseling Center, with a focus on Asian American mental health, body image, and disordered eating. Dr. Tsong is recognized nationally for their scholarship and professional activities, including the Su Rosenberg Zalk Award for distinguished service to the Society for the Psychology of Women, Fellow status by American Psychological Association (APA) Division 35 Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 45 the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race, and the Asian American Psychological Association, and an APA Presidential Citation in 2023. Dr. Tsong has served on editorial boards of several academic journals as a guest editor of two special issues of the journal Women & Therapy, “Activism as the Asian American Feminist Critical Race (AsianFemCrit) Praxis” and “Trauma and Well-being among Asian American women,” on APA Board of Convention Affairs, and as President of APA Division 35 the Society for the Psychology of Women. Dr. Tsong is the Principal Investigator of two Department of Education Title V grants totaling 7 million dollars to promote access to higher education and timely graduation for underserved undergraduate students.