About this ebook
In particular this book focuses upon critical sociocultural, clinical, and health issues and perspectives in psychology in Southeast Asia. Overviews help contextualize the cultural data, permitting nuanced examination of significant psychological issues in nations such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and more.
Psychologists and mental health professionals with interests in Asia will find this book to be a must-read, as will other readers seeking to deepen their cultural and international understanding.
About the author
Grant J. Rich, PhD, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, is Senior Editor of Pathfinders in International Psychology (2015) and has published three coedited books in 2017 and 2018: Internationalizing the Teaching of Psychology (2017), Human Strengths and Resilience: Developmental, Cross-Cultural, and International Perspectives (2018), and Teaching Psychology around the World (2018). Dr. Rich teaches at Walden University, USA.
Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar, PhD, is a professor at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
David Barron, PhD, is the deputy director and reader at the Centre of Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Malaysia.
