How the AAPI Community Is Coping with Continued Anti-Asian Bias and Attacks
By Christine Macahilig
May 2022
October 15, 2021
“There is also a generational barrier to mental health care, said Doris Chang, an associate professor of psychology at New York University. Younger people are less likely to have an internalized stigma about mental health, and older people are more inclined to think they can resolve their issues without help."
May 29, 2021 The World Journal
“Compared with African Americans, there is very little research on Asian Americans. New York University Associate Professor of Psychology Doris. Zhang (Doris Chang) pointed out that there are several possible reasons why Asians are not prioritized for research. One of them is that as a group, Asians do not have economic or health disparities compared with whites. This makes funding Asian-related research less of a public priority. The federal funding for Asian American research is obviously insufficient. From 1992 to 2018, only 0.17% of the National Institutes of Health’s budget was used to study Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.”
Amid Growing Anti-Asian Racism, a Call For more Research Into Health Effects
by Angus Chen May 29, 2021 NPR.org
ABC News Live Honors Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Bridging Generations
May 14, 2021 and streaming. A multi-generational panel led by Juju Chang discusses the galvanizing moment around standing up to anti-Asian hate, and what makes them proud to be Asian. With Doris F. Chang, Angela Hsu, Vivian Ho, and others.
WBUR/NPR
by Angus Chen. April 9, 2021
“Chang recently surveyed roughly 700 Asian Americans across the U.S. over the last year about hate crimes and the experience of discrimination. She found that at least 40% of them reported one or more incidents of in-person racism including verbal harassment, physical assaults and property damage. That came with a related decrease in mental health.
“Those experiences were associated with heightened levels of psychological distress, including depression, symptoms of worry and anxiety,” she says.”
NPR/WBUR OnPoint Podcast
We discuss the connection between rising violence now, and America's history of anti-Asian discrimination.
Guests: Kelly Yang, New York Times best-selling author of “Front Desk” and “Parachutes”. Doris Chang, clinical psychologist and associate professor at the New York University Silver School of Social Work; Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
ABC 20/20 Special
March 19, 2021
“Words are extremely powerful,” Associate Professor Doris F. Chang, PhD said in an ABC 20/20 report that cited research she and NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Professor Sumie Okazaki conducted which found 34% of Asian Americans say they’ve been victims of verbal abuse since the start of the pandemic. Dr. Chang pointed to the former U.S. President’s xenophobic descriptions of COVID-19 and said “the reality is it reinforces a particular association between the virus ‒ something deadly ‒ with a group of people.”.
Newsday.com
by Dandan Zou March 12, 2021
"It’s the sum total of our experiences of this kind of harm that has a psychological, compounding effect," said Doris Chang, an associate professor at New York University. Chang said the feelings of vulnerability and not being safe in one’s environment create a psychological experience of anxiety, which could trigger a hypervigilant response.
March 2021. This month’s episode explores the role of contemplative practice in supporting social change leaders, and strategies for promoting social justice and influencing policies and practices within systems.Our guests discussed the tendency for research and ‘real-world’ practice to get siloed. What can contemplative scientists and changemakers working to advance social justice learn from and share with each other?
CNN.com
by Ashley Vaughn March 5, 2021
“Professor Chang says violence toward Asian Americans occurs in cycles punctuated by dormancy. Asian people are often "welcomed in this country as long as we are seen as useful to the larger American project."
"During times of social, political, economic instability," she continued, "then we are marginalized again and seen as a 'perpetual foreigner' and therefore a threat to national security."
ABC News
March 4, 2021 Primetime Special: "Stop the Hate: The Rise In Violence Against Asian Americans"
Anchored by ABC News’ Juju Chang and Eva Pilgrim, the one-hour special traces the events that have led to anti-Asian violence, spotlights stories of victims and the process of prosecuting the hate crimes, explores why America is paying attention now and profiles the new activism emerging in the AAPI community.
Experts Nikita Chaudry and Doris Chang will explain and give context to the varied nature of Asian cultures and what the violence and racism is doing to AAPI communities, respectively.
Mind & Life Podcast
August 5, 2020
In this episode, Wendy speaks with clinical psychologist Doris Chang about her work on race, ethnicity, culture, and other dimensions of social identity as they shape psychological experience and mental health treatment.
July 28, 2020
Protect Ya Peace. Hear to Slay podcast
This year has taken a toll not just on our bodies, but our mental and emotional health as well. As we seek to find balance, rest, and even joy through it all, Tressie and Roxane talk to Erica Woodland, founder of the National Queer and Trans therapists of Color Network about transforming mental health through a justice-oriented lens. Later in the show, journalist Sojourner Ahebee talks to several clinical practitioners and researchers about the cumulative effects of stress and racism on black bodies.
March 30, 2020
Cultural Humility Podcast: COVID-19 and Asian Communities: Where Racism and Bigotry Are Also a Health Hazard
Join me as Dr. Doris Chang and I discuss the racial impact the coronavirus has had on Chinese and other Asian communities in the United States. Dr. Chang discusses her own personal reflections, while offering professional insights on how to understand the racialization of COVID-19 and the cascading effects in Asian communities. Dr. Chang also offers thoughts about what we can, and should, do towards the elimination of hate and bigotry, while providing suggestions on how Asian communities can cope during this unprecedented time.