Featured Psychologist
Frederick T.L. Leong, PhD, is professor of psychology and psychiatry at Michigan State University and director of the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research. He has authored or co-authored over 290 journal articles and book chapters and edited or co-edited 20 books. He is editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedia of Counseling" (Sage Publications) and the "APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology" (APA Books). He is the founding editor of the Asian American Journal of Psychology and the associate editor of the Archives of Scientific Psychology. He also served as associate editor of the American Psychologist and the lead editor of the Handbook of Asian American Psychology, 2nd Edition (Sage Publications).
Leong is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 2, 5, 12, 17, 29, 45, 52), Association for Psychological Science, Asian American Psychological Association, International Academy for Intercultural Research and the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is the past president of APA’s Div. 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), Div. 12-Section VI (Clinical Psychology of Ethnic Minorities), the Asian American Psychological Association and the Division of Counseling Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology.
Leong received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology as well as the Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology from APA’s Div. 12. He is also the recipient of the APA Div. 45 Distinguished Contributions to Research Award and the APA Minority Fellowship Program’s Dalmas Taylor Distinguished Contributions Award. His latest awards are the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Psychological Association and the APA Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science.