Visiting Scholar-Fall 2011

This fall, we are pleased to welcome Dr. MiJin Yang as a Visiting Scholar with the Mental Health Counseling program track. Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor at the Korea Youth Counseling Institute in Seoul, South Korea and also serves as director of the Competence Development Division at the Korea Youth Counseling Institute. MiJin Yang has over 15 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, and is presently the editor of the Korean Journal of Youth Counseling. Research areas of interest include: school adaptation among adolescents and multicultural family counseling.

As part of her duties as Visiting Scholar, Dr. Yang will provide a workshop for the counselor education community on her research activity and will also conduct a guest lecture in one of the clinical core courses in Mental Health Counseling.