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372 COUNSELING ACROSS CULTURES I About the Contributors 373

Charles R. Ridley received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Joseph E. Trimble (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma) is Professor of
He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Training in the Psychology at Western Washington University, where he has been a
Counseling Psychology Program at Indiana University. Previously, he
was a consulting psychologist in private industry and taught at the faculty member since 1978. Throughout his academic career, he has
University of Maryland and the Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller
Theological Seminary. His research and scholarly interests include mul- focused his efforts on promoting psychological research with indigenous,
ticultural counseling and training, the integration of psychology and ethnic populations, especially American Indians. In the past decade he
theology, and organizational consultation. He has written Overcoming
Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide has been working on drug abuse prevention and intervention research
to Intentional Intervention.
models with Native youth. He has presented over 200 papers and invited
David Sue is a Professor of Psychology and serves as the Director of the
Mental Health Counseling Program at Western Washington University. lectures at professional meetings and has generated over 100 publications
For 10 years, he was on the psychology faculty at the University of dealing with cross-cultural psychology.
Michigan, Dearborn. He has coauthored Understanding Abnormal Psy-
chology (4th ed.) and Counseling the Culturally Different: Theory and Melba J. T. Vasquez, Ph.D., ABPP, is a psychologist in independent
Practice (2nd ed.) with his brothers, Derald and Stan. He has research practice in Austin, Texas. She is the owner and executive director of
and writing interests in Asian Americans and cross-cultural counseling. Vasquez and Associates Mental Health Services. She has conducted
numerous workshops in the areas of professional ethics, cultural diver-
Norman D. Sundberg (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1952) is a Pro- sity, leadership training, sexual harassment, empowerment of women,
fessor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology of the University of and other mental health related topics. She has published numerous
Oregon. He has been Director of the Clinical Psychology Program on journal articles and book chapters in the specialty areas of ethnic minority
several occasions and has served as Dean of the School of Community psychology, psychology of women, supervision and training, and profes-
Service and Public Affairs. He has taught and done research in Germany, sional ethics. She is coauthor of the book Ethics in Psychotherapy and
India, Australia, France, Spain, and Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Counseling: A Practical Guide for Psychologists. She is a Fellow of the
APA divisions of counseling, clinical, and community psychology. He American Psychological Association, holds the Diplomate from the
received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Board of American Board of Professional Psychology, and has received numerous
Psychologist Examiners and the Walter Klopfer Award from the Society awards, including the Centennial Award for Early Career Contribution
for Personality Assessment. Publications include Clinical Psychology to the Public Interest (American Psychological Association, 1992), the
(with Leona Tyler and Julian Taplin),Assessment of Persons, and numer- American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Award for
ous articles and book chapters, many of them on cross-cultural topics. Teaching and Training, and the Southwest Texas State University His-
panic Alumni Award (1994).
Junko Tanaka-Matsumi earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from
the University of Hawaii as an East-West Center student from Japan. She
is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hofstra University, Hemp-
stead, New York. She serves on the editorial board of Journal of Cross-
Cultural Psychology and Psychological Assessment. Her research interests
include analyses of dyadic interactions of depressed people, culture and
psychopathology, communication of emotions, and functional analytic
approaches to cross-cultural therapy.

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