286. AAPI MENTAL HEALTH: The high rate of suicide amongst AAPI college students

AAPI MENTAL HEALTH: The high rate of suicide amongst AAPI college students In this episode, I speak with Dr. Helen Hsu and Dr. Catherine Teotico about AAPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. We discuss the high rate of suicide amongst AAPI college students and how ways to raise awareness for mental health. I really enjoyed my conversation with these two phenomenal women and am grateful to learn more about their immigrant stories and journey to becoming passionate psychologists. Dr. Hsu is a renowned public speaker, educator, and clinician who draws from her own lived experience as a bi-cultural, bi-lingual immigrant. She is the founder of Hella Mental Health and serves in leadership positions for several psychological associations. Dr. Catherine Teotico, Psy.D. (she/her) is currently a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services who specializes in working with Asian-Americans, immigrants, first-generation college students, international students, and students of color. As always, please rate my podcast on your platform of choice and share it with others! If you would like to support this podcast and the work I do with a donation, you can become a patron of the show by visiting my website or Patreon.com/sifumimichan For comments or suggestions, reach out on social media @sifumimichan Discussed in this episode: @HelenHHsu | Linktree Stanford UCLA WERD education Asian American Journal of Psychology Making of Asian America Wuhan Poem Permission to Come Home The Rape of Nanking boo https://youtu.be/zdyTtK78fJg BIOS Dr. Catherine Teotico, Psy.D. (she/her) received her doctoral degree from William James College. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services. Dr. Teotico specializes in working with Asian-Americans, immigrants, first-generation college students, international students, and students of color. She has led numerous group therapies, including Asian-American Community, Asian International Students, and Immigration-Impacted Students Support Groups. Dr. Teotico currently serves on the Asian American Mental Health and International Student Mental Health Committees at UCLA CAPS. Most recently, she has been conferred a Leadership Fellowship from the national Asian-American Psychology Association for her work with Asian-Americans. Dr. Helen Hsu Helen is a Director of Outreach, Asian American specialist, and lecturer at Stanford University. She is the President-elect of the American Psychological Association Div. 45 (Society for the Study of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity) a past president of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA),