Expertise

Academic Areas:

  • Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling
  • Counselor Education

Research Interests:

  • The working alliance between counselors and clients
  • Vocational rehabilitation and career development for transition youth and young adults with disabilities
  • Intersectionality of disability and other cultural identities
  • Disability biases
  • Multicultural issues in rehabilitation counseling
  • Multicultural learning environment
  • Rehabilitation services for Asian American populations and their professional help-seeking
  • Constructs of positive psychology in the recovery process for individuals with mental illness and their psychosocial adjustment
Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, College of Education, Auburn University

Communities
Special Education, Special Education, Psychology, Psychology, Mental Health Services, Mental Health Services
Degrees
PhD, Michigan State University, Rehabilitation Counselor Education, 2017
MS, Illinois Institute of Technology, Rehabilitation Counseling, 2010
MS, Daegu University, South Korea, Rehabilitation Psychology, 2005
BS, Daegu University, South Korea, Rehabilitation Psychology, 2003
Keywords
asian americans vocational rehabilitation bilingual & intercultural education mental health minority mental health identity development disability biases career development emerging adulthood stigma attitudes toward disability counselor education rehabilitation counseling individuals with disabilities transition youth with disabilities working alliance
Associations
American Counseling Association