International Teaching and Training (Selected)

2018

  • Workshop Presenter - Delivered Workshop on "Multicultural Counselling and Therapy" for Chinese Association for Social Work Education, Ordors, Inner Mogolia, China, July 2018. 
  • Visiting Professor (Guest Teaching) - Graduate course teaching of "Culture and Counselling", School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, July 2018.

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo speaking on stage

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo speaking to a small group

Workshop Training on "Multicultural Counselling and Therapy"


  2017

  • Visiting Professor - Insititute of Psychology, Department of Social and Work Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, October, 2017.
  • Visiting Professor - College of Education, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, China, June, 2017.
  • Visiting Professor - Department of Psychology, School of Education Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, China, June 2017

Group photo

Light-hearted group photo

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo in front of projector screen


2016

  • Keynote Speaker/Lecturer - Conference on Stress and Coping, Kostroma State University, Kostrama, Russia, Octobert, 2016.
  • Visiting Professor (Guest Teaching) - School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, June, 2016.

2015

  • Visiting Professor (Guest Teaching) - Graduate course teaching of "Advanced Counselling Skills and Case Superivsion" at the School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. August 3rd to 6th, 2015.
  • Visiting Professor (Guest Teaching) - Graduate course teaching of "Advanced Seminar on Multicultural Counselling and Psychotherapy" at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. January to July 2015.
  • Speaker/Trainer - Full-day training workshop on ‘A Multicultural Perspective on Helping, Guidance and Counselling’ delivered at the MacKay Hospice and Palliative Care Centre and the Pastoral Care Division, the Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. July 31st, 2015.
  • Speaker – Invited departmental colloquium lecture on “Multicultural Therapy & Social Justice Training, Practice & Research through Counselling Refugee Survivors” delivered at the Department of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. July 15th, 2015.
  • Speaker – Invited talk on “Culture, Stress and Coping: A Programmatic Approach to Study Collective Coping” delivered at the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research, Department of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. July 13th, 2015.
  • Keynote Speaker – Invited keynote Lecture on “Collectivism’s Impact on Coping and Mental Health for Culturally and Developmentally Diverse Populations: Emerging Understanding & Implications for Interventions” delivered at the 19th Biennial Australasian Human Development Association Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. July 11th, 2015.
  • Speaker – Invited Lecture on “Multicultural Therapy Training, Practice and Research: A Case of Practicum for Counselling Refugees” delivered at the Department of Psychology of Asia University, Wufeng, Taiwan. June 12th, 2015.
  • Speaker/Trainer – Full-day training workshop on ‘Multicultural Counselling and Guidance’ delivered at the Department of Counselling at the National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan. May 2nd, 2015.
  • Trainer – Half-day training workshop on ‘Multicultural Interventions for Guidance and Counselling in School’ delivered at the Shing Yi Elementary School (信義國小), Taipei, Taiwan. April 8th, 2015.
  • Speaker – Invited lecture on ‘From a Foreign Student to a Professor, From Cross-Cultural Experience to Research and Practice – My Intellectual Journey’ and ‘Multicultural Counselling – A Brief Introduction’ delivered at the Graduate Institute of Guidance and Counselling of the National Chi Nan University, Puli, Taiwan. April 27th, 2015.
  • Speaker – Invited research colloquium talk on ‘Culture, Stress and Coping: A Programmatic Approach to Study Collective Coping’ delivered at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. March 12th, 2015.

Class group photo Summer Visiting Professorship and Graduate Teaching at School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo teaching a class


2014

  • Visiting Professor (Guest Teaching) - Short-Term undergraduate course teaching and offering of "Advanced Seminar on Culture and Psychology" at the School of Psychology of the Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. October 7th to 29th, 2014. 
  • Speaker – Invited research lecture on ‘Culture and Coping: A Programmatic Approach to Study Collective Coping’ delivered at the Psychology of Department at the Peking University, Beijing, China. October 24th, 2014.
  • Speaker – Invited research colloquium lecture on ‘Culture and Coping: A Programmatic Approach to Study Collective Coping’ delivered at the Psychology Department, School of Social Development at the Centre University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China. October 22nd, 2014.
  • Speaker – Invited lecture on ‘A Brief Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology’ delivered at the Department of Psychology at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, China. October 22nd, 2014.

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo speaking with projector screen in behind

In-class group photo

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo participating in discussion while seated in a student desk


2012

  • Visiting Professor (Guest Teaching) - Graduate course teaching of "Graduate Seminar on Culture and Psychology" at the Faculty of Education, Teaching English as Foreign Language Program, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. December 12th to 23rd,  2012.

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo and student standing in front of historical Thailand buildings

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo visiting Faculty of Education

Group photo at dinner


2011

  • Speaker/Trainer - Invited workhop on "Multicultural Counselling and Psychotherapy", Professional Development Workshop Sponsored by Taiwan Guidance and Counselling Association, Kaohsuing, Taiwan. July, 2011. 
  • Speaker - Invited lecture on "Multicultural Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction" at the Division of Counselling Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. July, 2011.
  • Speaker - Inivited lecture on "Unpacking Culture and Its Influences in the Stress Response Process", School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. July, 2011.
  • Trainer - Invited workshop on "Culture and Helping Relationship: Knowledge Enhancement on Multicultural Counselling and Psychotherapy" at Dong-Shu College of Commerce, Dong-Shu, Taiwan. June, 2011.

2010

  • Speaker/Trainer - Invited workshop on "Conceptualizing Counselling and Interventions from Cultural and Multicultural Perspectives" at the National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan. June, 2010.
  • Speaker/Trainer - Inivted workshop on "Cultureal Perspectives on Trauma Recovery" at the National Taichung University, Taichung, Taiwan. June, 2010.

2009

  • Speaker/Trainer - Invited workshop on "Multicultural Counselling and Psycholotherapy: Implications for Managing Grief and Trauma Issues" at the National Taipei College of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan. June, 2009.
  • Speaker/Trainer - Invited workshop on "Culture, Diversity, and Helpging Relationship: Developing Multicultural Counselling Competency" sponsored by Taiwan Guidance and Counselling Association, at the National Dong-Hwa University, Hwa-Lien, Taiwan. June, 2009.
  • Speaker/Trainer - Invited workshop on ""Culture, Diversity, and Helpging Relationship: Developing Multicultural Counselling Competency" sponsored by Taiwan Guidance and Counselling Association, at the Taipei Municipal University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan. June, 2009.