Multicultural Psychology Pioneer To Speak At Penn State

March 22, 2001

University Park, Pa. --- Dr. Derald Wing Sue, a national pioneer in multicultural psychology, education and counseling, will speak on "Growing Up Asian In America: Lessons For Multicultural Education" on April 11 at 2 p.m., in 352 Moore Building, on Penn State's University Park campus.

A professor at California State University, Hayward and at the California School of Professional Psychology, Dr. Sue also developed the cultural competence movement that has revolutionized the field of counseling and therapy nationwide. Among his books are: "Counseling the Culturally Different: Theory and Practice;" "Counseling American Minorities: A Cross Cultural Perspective" and "A Theory of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy."

He also is the producer of four widely used videotapes on multicultural professional training and co-producers and technical editor of the Culturally Competent Counseling series for the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues and Microtraining Associates. Dr. Sue is co-founder and first president of the Asian American Psychological Association and former president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues. His lecture is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Psychology

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