Psychology in Southeast Asia: Sociocultural, Clinical, and Health Perspectives - Paperback

by Grant Rich (Editor), Jas Laile Jaafar (Editor), David Barron (Editor)

Despite diverse, rich cultural traditions and abundant economic opportunity, there has been a paucity of research on psychology in Southeast Asia. This book aims to fill that gap, with a series of well-written theoretical and empirical chapters by contributors from around the globe.

Author Biography

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.