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Theses and Dissertations

Selected Dissertation & Thesis Project Supervised by Dr. Kuo

  • Renee Taylor (2021). A Qualitative Grounded Theory Study of Black Canadian Psychological Help-Seeking
  • Siqi Huang (2020). Coping with intergenerational conflict among Chinese Canadian emerging adults: Testing a cultural and contextual model with a mixed-methods approach.
  • Beatriz Rodriguez Rubio (2014). Examining the process of the development of multicultural counselling competencies in therapist trainees (Nominee for the Ontario Governor’s Gold Medal Award).
  • Alma Roldan (2012).  Seeking help for psychological distress: The role of acculturation, family relationships, coping, and stigma among Latin Americans in Canada. (Nominee for the Ontario Governor’s Gold Medal Award; Recipient of the CPA’s Certificate of Academic Excellence)
  • Phoneix Gillis (2012). Problem gambling as a response to social and occupational stressor: Exploring a moderation model of stress and coping. (Nominee for the Ontario Governor’s Gold Medal Award)
  • Vanessa Chong (2012). Racial identity, family, and psychological adjustment in Asian-White biracial young adults.
  • David Han Zhang Liang (2012). Critical factors predicting willingness to seek professional treatment and informal support among frequent gamblers.
  • Trang K. Le (2011). Sibling acculturation discrepancy, sibling relationship quality and adjustment among Vietnamese and Chinese young adults in Canada: A mixed method approach. (Recipient of the Ontario Governor’s Gold Medal Award)
  • Justine Joseph (2010). Willingness to seek professional psychological help among Canadians of African descent: A culturally based help-seeking model. (Nominee for the Ontario Governor’s Gold Medal Award &  CPA John Berry Graduate Student Research Award; Recipient of the CPA’s Certificate of Academic Excellence)
  • Yiu-Yin Chang (2022). Asian Therapists’ Experience and Coping with Racial Microaggression: A Qualitative Examination with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
  • Renee Taylor (2018). Explaining Intentions to Seek Mental Health Services among Black Canadians.
  • Sara Keshavarzi (2018). Stress, Coping, and Religiosity among Recent Syrian Refugees in Canada.
  • Siqi Huang (2017). Psychological and Academic Entitlement: Psychosocial and Cultural Predictors and Effects on Psychological Well-Being.
  • Vanessa Chong (2007). Perceived acculturation discrepancies and intergenerational conflict in Asian Canadian families.(SSHRC Masters Scholarship; Nominee for the Ontario Governor’s Gold Medal Award)
  • David Liang (2007). Acculturation and the help-seeking behaviour of Asian-Canadian gamblers and problem gamblers: Exploring the role of informal sources of help. (SSHRC Masters Scholarship; Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship; Nominee for the Ontario Governor’s Gold Medal Award)
  • Mariam Mahdi (2021). Psychological Help-Seeking among Culturally Diverse University Students: The Role of Acculturation, Enculturation and Stigma
  • Pinky Sabhnani (2021). Empathy, Emotion Regulation, Self-esteem, and Resilience: Their Relationships and Cultural Differences

     

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Rodriguez Rubio, B. R., & Chang, Y. Y. (Accepted). A qualitative study of therapist trainees’ multicultural counselling development through working with refugee clients: Implications for theory-building, research, and practice. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Huang, S., Lin, D., & Li, X. (2021). Self-esteem, resilience, social support, and acculturative stress as predictors of loneliness in Chinese internal migrant children: A model-testing longitudinal study. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 155. 387-450. DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2021.1891854

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Nardone, S., Glos, B., Mahdi, M., & Hussein, N. (2021). Therapeutic use of language interpreter [Video]. https://youtu.be/IyZwM1mfDyE In G. Ko, M. Anderson, S. Collins, and Y. Yasynskyy (Eds.), Fostering responsive therapeutic relationships: Repositioning microskills and techniques in service of just conversations. Counselling Concepts. https://responsiverelationships.pressbooks.com/chapter/responsive_relationships/. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Granemann, L., Najibzadeh, A., Al-Saadi, R., Dali, M. & Alsmoudi, B. (2020). Examining post-migration social determinants as predictors of mental and physical health of recent Syrian refugees in Canada: Implications for counselling, practice, and research. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

  • Li, Y., Kuo, B. C. H., Chen, P. H., & Lai, N. H. (2020). Recovery from anorexia nervosa in contemporary Taiwan: A multiple-case qualitative investigation from a cultural-contextual perspective. Transcultural Psychiatry, 0, 1-14. DOI: 10.1177/1363461520920327

  • Huang, S. & Kuo, B. C. H. (2020). Demographic, psychosocial, and cultural predictors of entitlement in a multiethnic Canadian undergraduate sample. Social Psychology of Education. DOI:10.1007/s11218-020-09547-1

  • Taylor, R. & Kuo, B. C. H. (2020). A theory driven exploration of Black Canadians’ psychological help-seeking intentions. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Soucie, K., & Huang, S. (2019). Developing clinical trainees’ multicultural counseling competencies through working with refugees in a multicultural psychotherapy practicum: A mixed-methods investigation. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 1-20. (Online First). DOI: 10.1007/s10447-019-09392-8

  • Taylor, R. & Kuo, B. C. H. (2018). Black American psychological help-seeking intention: An integrated literature review with recommendations for clinical practice (OnlineFirst). Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1037/int0000131

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Soucie, K., Huang, S. & Laith, R. (2018). The mediating role of cultural coping behaviours on the relationships between academic stress and positive psychosocial well-being outcomes. International Journal of Psychology, 53, 27-36, DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12421.

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Roldan-Bau, A.* & Lowinger, R. (2015). Psychological help seeking among Latin American immigrants in Canada: Testing a culturally-expanded model of Theory of Reasoned Action, using path analysis. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 37,179-197. doi: 10.1007/s10447-015-9236-5

  • Chong, V.* & Kuo, B. C. H. (2015). Racial identity profiles of Asian-White biracial young adults: Testing a theoretical model with cultural and psychological Correlates. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 6, 203-212. doi.org/10.1037/aap0000022

  • Kuo, B. C. H. & Arcuri, A.* (2014). Multicultural therapy practicum involving refugees: Description and illustration of a training model. The Counselling Psychologist, 42, 1021-1052. doi: 10.1177/0011000013491610

  •  Kuo, B. C. H., Arnold, R. & Rodriguez-Rubio, B.* (2013). Mediating effects of coping in the link between spirituality and psychological distress in a culturally diverse undergraduate sample. Mental Health, Religion, and Culture. doi:10.1080/13674676.2013.780015

  • Joseph, J.* & Kuo, B. C. H. (2009). Black Canadians’ coping response to racial discrimination. Journal of Black Psychology, 35, 78-101. doi: 10.1177/0095798408323384

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Chong, V.*, & Joseph. J.* (2008). Depression and its psychosocial correlates among older Asian immigrants in North America: A critical review of two decades’ research. Journal of Aging and Health, 20, 615-652. doi: 10.1177/0898264308321001

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Kwantes, C. T., Towson, S., & Nanson, K. M.* (2006). Social beliefs as determinants of attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help among ethnically diverse university students. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 40, 224-241. 

  • Kuo, B. C. H., Granemann, L., Najibzadeh, A., Al-Saadi, R., Dali, M., & Alsmoudi, B. (2019). Syrian refugees in Windsor, Canada: Social relationship, general health, and mental health. An oral presentation delivered at the 2019 Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Conference at York University in Toronto, Ontario. 
  • Kuo, B. C. H., Salam, Z., Soucie, K., Ly, C., Huang, S. & country collaborators (2018). Cultural coping with school burnout: A 15-Country study. An oral presentation delivered at the 24th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 
  • Kuo, B. C. H., Soucie, K., & Huang, S. (2018). Evaluating the change process of therapist trainees’ multicultural competencies through working with refugee clients: A mixed-methods investigation. An oral presentation delivered at the 24th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 
  • Taylor, R., Kuo, B., C. H., & Huang, S. (2018). Assessing changes in therapeutic alliance between therapist trainees and their refugee clients from a multicultural and process perspective. An oral presentation presented at the 24th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 
  • Huang, S. & Kuo, B. C. H. (2018). Psychological and academic entitlement: Demographic, psychosocial, and cultural predictors, and relationship with psychological well-being. Presented at the 29th International Congress of Applied Psychology at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, Canada
  • Huang, S. & Kuo, B. C. H. (2018). Is entitlement a Western individualistic phenomenon? Examining the relationships between psychological entitlement, academic entitlement, and self-construals in an ethnically diverse sample of Canadian young adults. A poster presentation presented at the 24th International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
  • Taylor, R., Kuo, B. C. H., & Huang, S. (2017). Multicultural therapeutic alliance from the perspectives of therapist trainees and their refugee clients. A student symposium presentation for the International & Cross-Cultural Section at the 2017 Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention in Toronto.
  • Kuo, B. C. H., Soucie, K., Laith, R., Atilade, C., Huang, S., & Adekoya, I. O. (2016). Testing a cultural model of coping with academic stress in a Canadian undergraduate sample. A paper presentation delivered at the 23rd International Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology in Nagoya, Japan.