U.S. Faculty

Dr. Morgan T. Sammons
Systemwide Dean of CSPP, San Francisco
PhD, 1989: Arizona State University
Research and practice interests: psychopharmacology, pharmacotherapeutics.

Dr. Alex Leung
Director, Hong Kong PsyD Program

Associate Professor, San Francisco PsyD Program
PhD, 1984: University of Manitoba
Research and practice interests: Cross-cultural comparison of counseling approach preference; inpatient and outpatient psychodiagnostic evaluation; psychopharmacology; work related injury evaluation; forensic examination; sexual dysfunction; crisis intervention and critical incident debriefing.

Dr. Diane Adams
Associate Professor, San Francisco, PsyD Program
PhD, 1983: The Wright Institute
Research and practice interests: adult development; psychotherapy; biographical interviewing; case histories and theoretical or conceptual analytic thesis; clinical and theoretical issues involving ethnic minority populations, particularly Afro-American, and the application of psychoanalytic theory in practice and research.

Dr. Steven F. Bucky
Professor and Director of Professional Training, San Diego, PsyD Program
PhD, 1970: University of Cincinnati
Research and practice interests: Childhood psychopathology; chemical dependency; forensic psychology; ethics; alcoholic family; children of alcoholics; sports psychology.

Dr. Jean Lau Chin
Former Dean and Professor of CSPP
EdD, 1974: Teachers College, Columbia University
Research and practice interests: Cultural competency; psychotherapy and diagnostic evaluation; community health and mental health; women’s issues, and Asian American issues; clinical supervision of psychology interns and psychiatric residents; and other mental health professionals.

Dr. Eddie Chiu
Assistant Professor, Director, Psychological Service Center, San Francisco, PsyD Program
PhD, 1996: California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles
Research and practice interests: Gambling behavior among Asians; applying Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Chinese depressed patients; neuropsychological assessment; biofeedback; Ericksonian hypnosis and psychotherapy.

Dr. Stephen H. Chou
Adjunct faculty, San Francisco, PsyD Program
PsyD, 2003: California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda
Research and practice interests: Mood and behavioral problems, relationship/family issues, trauma, developmental delays, substance abuse, cognitive behavioral therapy/family systems orientation within a multicultural focus, mentoring, Asian & Asian-American issues, psychoeducational, emotional, and personality assessments.

Dr. Becky Newman
Adjunct Faculty, CSPP, San Francisco
Clinical Psychology Program Adjunct Faculty, Stanford University Psychiatry Residency Program
Clinical Psychologist, Kaiser South San Francisco, Adult Psychiatry
PsyD, 2003: California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda
Research and practice interests: LGBTQ issues, mindfulness-based practices, identity development, behaviorally-based treatments (primarily DBT), substance abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, Feminist theory and intervention, hospital-based treatment

Professor, San Francisco, PhD Program
PhD, 1981: University of Delaware
Research and practice interests: Feminist and anti-racist models of clinical training and supervision; cognitive and emotional developmental changes in individuals abused or traumatized as children; feminist therapy supervision and ethics.

Dr. Ronald Teague
Founding Professor, Fresno, PsyD Program
PhD, 1973; California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco; ABPP, Diplomate in
Clinical Psychology
Research interests: psychology of antiquity; psychohistory phenomenology; Jungian psychology; psychoanalysis; psychoanthropology; psychology and the humanities; history of psychology Clinical Interests: acculturation problems, spirituality, analytic dream therapy, psychologist burnout, midlife adaptation

Dr. Christopher Tori
Professor Emeritus, San Francisco, PsyD Program
PhD, 1971: University of Kentucky
Research and practice interests: Psychotherapy methods; cross-cultural psychology; Buddhism; religion and spirituality; additions; psycholinguistics; psychometrics and statistics; international studies.

Dr. Linna Wang
Associate Professor, San Diego, PhD Program
PhD, 1996: Brigham Young University
Research and practice interests: Native American studies; cross-cultural issues; women’s issues; marriage and family evaluation; survey research; impact of family factors on children.

Dr. Amy Watt
Clinical Psychologist, private practice
PhD, 1994: California School of Professional Psychology, Fresno
Research and practice interests: Asian American issues; cultural issues; individual psychotherapy with adults, adolescents, and children; psychodiagnostic assessment; forensic assessment; object-relations theories.

Dr. Scott Woolley
Systemwide Director, Marital and Family Therapy Programs; Associate Professor, San Diego
PhD, 1995: Texas Tech University
Research and practice interests: Courtship, marriage, couples therapy; MFT process and outcome research; cultural issues in couple relationships; MFT supervision processes; MFT therapy training; chemical dependency.

Dr. Diane Zelman
Professor, San Francisco, PsyD Program
PhD, 1989: University of Wisconsin
Research and practice interests: Health psychology; neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; chronic pain, including individual and family experiences of chronic pain, measurement of pain, psychological treatments of chronic pain and neuropathic pain.

Hong Kong Faculty

Mark YANG
Director of Training for Hong Kong PsyD Program
PsyD, 1994: Fuller Theological Seminary, Graduate School of Psychology
Research and practice interests: Existential psychology, group psychotherapy, and grief and bereavement.

Charlotte TANG
Associate Program Director for Hong Kong PsyD Program
PhD, 2007: Alliant International University/California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco
Research and practice interests: Infant-parent psychotherapy; infant mental health; object relations and attachment theory; children with autism, disability and trauma; impact of immigration and economic issues on Chinese mothers' parenting and their American-born Chinese children's behaviors during the Age of Understanding

Mary POON
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Macau
PsyD, 2003: The Wright Institute
Research and practice interests: Substance abuse treatment, gambling counseling, depression in Chinese immigration population in the U.S., interventions for Chinese smokers.

Douglas Y. SEIDEN
Clinical Supervisor for Hong Kong PsyD Program
PhD, 1999: Hofstra University
Research and practice interests: Cognitive behavioral assessment and therapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, psychotherapy-meditation integration, perennial psychologies and technologies of anomalous experience (e.g., out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, transcendent/unitive Self-realization), history of psychology and psychotherapy, cross-cultural assessment and therapy, webcam psychotherapy.

Erica LIU WOLLIN
Clinical Supervisor for Hong Kong PsyD Program
PsyD 1998: Wheaton College Graduate School
Research and practice interests: Couples therapy, group therapy, multicultural and Asian-American psychology, eating disorders and body image, attachment issues in adoption, trauma and EMDR, supervision and training of psychology graduate sudents, women’s issues, spirituality and faith integration, impact of chronic mental illness on family members and caregivers.

Keith MORRISON
Professor and Vice-rector, Macau Inter-University Institute
PhD, F.R.S.A.
Research and practice interests: Social science research methods, complexity theory, leadership and management, education and assessment, critical theory and education, policy analysis in education, organizational behaviour.