Debra Kawahara, an associate dean and professor at Alliant International University, will serve as president-elect in 2024.
S1: Welcome back to Kpbs Midday Edition. I'm Andrew Bracken in for Jade Heinemann. The American Psychological Association has chosen its new president. Deborah Kawahara is an associate dean and professor at Alliant University's California School of Professional Psychology. She will be the first Asian American and Japanese American woman to assume the role , and she'll lead as president elect in 2024 before taking over officially on January 1st , 2025.
S3: As you may know , I will be the 100th and 34th president of the association. And at the time of the pandemic , we know that Asian hate and violence was at an all time high. Mean it had been happening prior to the pandemic , but it got exacerbated during the pandemic. And we saw the really the outbreak of hate and violence being targeted towards Asian communities and particularly older adults and children.
S2: California has passed some new laws that try and make it easier to impose involuntary treatment on people with severe mental illness or psychosis , and there are some folks in the field that are concerned about those laws and their potential impact on civil liberties. I'm wondering if you share those concerns or what your thoughts are on these laws.
S1: Coming up on Midday Edition , we continue our conversation with Deborah Kawahara with her thoughts on the importance of diversity in mental health care. S3: I think we need to have a diversified field of psychology , a diversified workforce that actually is culturally responsive , particularly for communities of color , for communities that historically been marginalized so that they can actually go and work and be effective in those communities.
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