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Bryan Kim, a professor of psychology and director of the master of arts in counseling psychology, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, has been named editor of The Counseling Psychologist.
The publication is the official journal of the Society of Counseling Psychology, which represents the discipline and profession of counseling psychology. Kim is the first Asian-American selected as editor of the journal. He begins a one-year term as editor-elect in August 2018, followed by a six-year term as editor.
Kim’s research focuses on multicultural counseling psychology, psychotherapy process and outcome, counselor training and measurement of culture-specific constructs. He currently has more than 80 publications, which include nine psychological tests.
—By Alyson Kakugawa-Leong