MASTER OF ARTS IN COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY

Bryan S. K. Kim, Ph.D., Professor, Counseling Psychology Program Director

Dr. Bryan S. K. Kim joined our faculty in August 2006. He received the Ph.D. in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in June of 2000. He also has a Master of Education in School Counseling (1995) and a Bachelor of Education in Secondary Science Education (1992), both from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Prior to arriving at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo in 2006, Dr. Kim was an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park from August 2000 to June 2002. In July 2002, Dr. Kim returned to UCSB as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Program. In July 2005, he was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at the UCSB. Dr. Kim's research focuses on multicultural counseling process and outcome, measurement of cultural constructs, counselor education and supervision, and immigrant experiences. His current research examines the effects of culture-specific counseling interventions and client enculturation/acculturation (e.g., cultural values) on counseling process and outcome. Dr. Kim's interest in multicultural counseling psychology largely stems from his experiences growing up in Hawai'i as a 1.5-generation Asian American. Dr. Kim is currently an Associate Editor of The Counseling Psychologist and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, the Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, the Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, the Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, and Training, and the Educational Researcher. In 2003, Dr. Kim received the “Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions” from the Asian American Psychological Association. In 2005, Dr. Kim received the “ACA Research Award” from the American Counseling Association and “The MECD [Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development] Editor's Award” from the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Development. Most recently in 2006, Dr. Kim received "The Fritz and Linn Kuder Early Career Scientist/Practitioner Award" from the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of the American Psychological Association.

CV, bryankim@hawaii.edu

B. Christopher Frueh, Ph.D., Professor (on leave 2008-2009)
 

Dr. B. Christopher Frueh joined our faculty in August 2006. He has been conducting mental health services research for the past 16 years at the Medical University of South Carolina, South Carolina Department of Mental Health, and VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC. In Charleston he was Director of the Division of Public Psychiatry and of the VA PTSD Clinical Team, and a tenured Professor of Psychiatry. He has been an independently funded investigator on 11 federally grants as PI from National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), Veterans Affairs (VA), and Department of Defense (DOD) since 1999. In August of 2006 he was awarded an NIMH Mid-Career Development (K24-MH074468) grant titled Mentoring/Career Development in PTSD Services Research—to expand knowledge of community violence in rural areas, improve services, and examine the impact of traumatic exposure on a range of relevant mental health, health and economic variables. He has authored over 125 original peer-reviewed scientific reports and book chapters. He reviews regularly for several different federally funding agencies and about 15 different scientific journals, serves on the editorial board of five of these (the American Psychological Association’s new services journal Psychological Services, Journal of Personality Assessment, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Clinical Psychology Review, and Journal of Trauma and Practice), and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress.

CV, frueh@hawaii.edu

Steve Herman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Dr. Steve Herman joined our faculty in August 2005. He received his Ph. D. in counseling psychology from Stanford University in 1998 and is licensed to practice as a psychologist in Hawai’i. In 2005, he had a sole author publication entitled “Improving Decision Making in Forensic Child Sexual Abuse Evaluations” in Law and Human Behavior, the journal of the American Psychology-Law Society (also known as Division 41 of the American Psychological Association). He is currently conducting an online survey study of mental health professionals who conduct child sexual abuse evaluations. He will be presenting preliminary results from his new study at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco in August 2007. In addition to forensic psychology, his research, teaching, and practice interests include behavioral medicine (especially, psychosocial interventions for persons with cancer and heart disease), career counseling, group counseling, and online psychological research and interventions.

CV, hermans@hawaii.edu