In this issue:
- Southeast Asian Mental Health Conference 2022-related news
- SEAMH News and Publications
- SEAMH Events
- SEAMH Scholarship and Career Opportunities
Southeast Asian Mental Health Conference 2022
The Southeast Asian Mental Health Conference Organizing Committee would like to express our gratitude for all your participation and interest in our September 2022 conference. Thanks to all your support, the conference was a huge success!
We had:
820+ attendees
50 poster and oral presentations
6 presenting sessions (Poster, Affective Science, Disruption and Recovery, Adversity and Resilience, Interventions, Mental Health in Family and Schools)
2 keynote speakers (Dr. Robert Lemelson and Dr. Bahr Weiss)
4 workshops (Navigating Graduate School / Study Abroad, Measurement and Adaptation, Person-Centered Interviewing, & Qualitative Methods)
All the recordings will be uploaded to our Youtube channel (https://bit.ly/SEAMH_Youtube) with English, Burmese, Khmer, and Vietnamese subtitles.
To keep the momentum going, we have kickstarted our SEAMH Monthly Symposium, which will feature a range of cutting-edge topics and experts in global mental health. We look forward to seeing you at the next symposium!
The first symposium titled “Decolonization in the Everyday Life of the Academy: Perspectives from Southeast Asia and Its Diaspora” was held on September 17, 2022 (ICT), with our amazing panelists: Kosal Path, PhD – Brooklyn College CUNY; Jonathan Liljleblad, PhD – Australian National University; Seinenu Thein-Lemelson, PhD – UCLA; Kathy Trang, PhD – Harvard; and Elena Lesley, PhD – Georgetown.
Click here to read the full details about our 1st symposium.
SEAMH News and Publications
Dr. Seinenu Thein-Lemelson (UCLA) has published an editorial in Anthropology News on “Killing the Funeral in Myanmar.” The article is about how the Myanmar military junta is preventing traditional funeral rites for executed democracy activists.
Dr. Kathy Trang was featured in an LA Times article about cross-cultural differences in how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders might differentially perceive, experience, and communicate about mental distress.
Dr. Samia C. Akhter-Khan’s new publication “Coping with loneliness in southern Myanmar” was published in the journal Asian Anthropology. This collaborative article is a result from her one-year field work in Myanmar in 2018/19.
Sudarshan R Kottai has recently published “Social Sensitivity of Mental Health Systems” and “Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey A Mental Health Epidemic?” alongside a book review entitled “Bisexual and pansexual identities: Exploring and challenging invisibility and invalidation by Nikki Hayfield.”
SEAMH Events
November 4, 2022
The CAUSALab in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is excited to invite you to join us for the 14th Kolokotrones Symposium, Suicide Prevention: How do we know what we know, and how can we know more?, on Friday, November 4th, 2022.
This event will be hosted both in-person at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA in Snyder Auditorium (Kresge G1), and virtually via Zoom. Please register here.
Online Workshop Cross-cultural Research Methods by Tilburg University
November 22-25, 2022
The Hofstede Insights and Tilburg University are organizing a four-day online course (half day sessions) in cross-cultural research, on two themes:
- Theme 1: Individual-level, cross-cultural analysis in psychology, by Michael Bender, PhD
- Theme 2: National-level, cross-cultural analysis (nations, regions, sub-national groups) by Prof. Michael Minkov, PhD.
The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) sponsors the workshop with a scholarship to facilitate participation from low-income contexts, particularly early-career researchers or students (as identified, e.g., by the World Bank).
Click here to read full details.
The Second Southeast Asian Indigenous Psychology Scientific Meeting (SEAIP-2022)
December 3, 2022
SEAIP hopes to bring together scholars from all over the globe to empower the local psychologists in SEA regions to conduct indigenous and culturally relevant research, which could widen the conceptual space in global psychological research. It also aims to include under-represented psychologists from the less-developed countries in SEA regions, to amplify their voices and concerns for an equitable global psychology.
The SEAIP is hosted by the Monash Malaysia Culture and Health Lab (Chair and co-chair: Associate Professor Rachel Ting Sing-Kiat and Professor Elizabeth Jones) with phenomenal scholars pioneering the development of indigenous psychology in Asia.
Click here to read the full details.
SEAMH Jobs and Opportunities
Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS) at Monash University Malaysia
Application deadline: December 31, 2022
The Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS) program offers 15 scholarships each year from 2022 to 2024, and scholarship recipients will be funded for 39 months, under Monash University Malaysia. Each PhD student will be supervised by a team of staff in Malaysia and Australia, and as such, the program will include a paid placement in Australia for up to 12 months.
Stipend and benefits:
- The period in Malaysia: a monthly stipend of RM 2,800 for 27 months.
- The period in Australia: an annual stipend of AUD 37,000 up to 12 months.
- A grant to cover travel and initial cost of living expenses in Australia.
Click here to read full details.
Paid Graduate Research Assistant (Ra) Opportunity For Us-Based Students at Boston University
The Children and Families Across Cultures Coping with Trauma (CFACCT) Research Lab, led by Assistant Professor Judith Scott, is looking for 2 part-time (6-10 hrs/wk) Graduate Research Assistants (RAs) from October 2022 – May 2023. This position will be primarily remote. RAs will be compensated.
Both RAs would assist with the intervention pilot study, Supporting Asian Parents and Children Talking about Race and Racism (ACTRR). Focused on Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents with elementary-aged children, this study:
- Explores families’ experiences of racism, experiences of racism, salience of racism, perceived effects of racism on their children, and the ways in which parents engage their children around racism and racial/ethnic identity and
- Pilots a 6-week text-based intervention that supports parents’ conversations with their children about racism, racial/ethnic identity, and racial/ethnic empowerment. Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center and South Cove Community Health are partners on this study.
RAs will assist with:
- Translating study materials.
- Facilitating parent focus groups.
- Tracking intervention engagement.
- Translation and transcription.
- Mixed methods analyses, and dissemination.
- There may be other opportunities to be involved.
Qualifications:
- Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese or Vietnamese (requirement)
- Cultural humility and comfort with a wide range of social, racial, and ethnic populations
- Current graduate student interested in families, racism, and community engagement
- Good organizational skills and excellent attention to detail
- Willingness to learn and grow
- Excellent writing and documentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Self-motivation and commitment
- Punctuality
- Proficient with Microsoft Office and familiar with Google Docs
- Research experience (preferred)
To Apply:
Please email a cover letter and resume/CV to Judith Scott at cfacct@bu.edu and include your availability for the spring term. Qualified candidates will be asked to interview.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) are conducting a Violence Against Children reporting contest to raise awareness and spur dialogue around critical – yet underreported – issues of violence against children around the world.
Journalists reporting on violence against children in English or Spanish in Colombia, Kenya, and the Philippines are eligible. To be considered, your violence against children story must be 1) published between September 1, 2022 and October 16, 2022, and 2) use best reporting practices from the WHO new media guide for proper reporting against child violence. In each of the eligible countries, a $1,000 first-place prize, $750 second-place prize, and a $500 third-place prize will be awarded.
Click here to read the full details.
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