FAMU psychology professor Huijun Li, has joined with Larry Seidman, at Harvard Medical School, Daniel Shapiro, at the University of California Davis, and contributors across six continents to edit a new book “Handbook of Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome across Cultures: International Perspectives on Early Identification and Intervention.”
The book details how mental illnesses such as psychotic disorders are culturally construed. The book is one of the first to approach this topic with a global lens.
Among the 21 chapters, three chapters are particularly relevant to racial ethnic groups in the U.S. One chapter addresses cultural considerations in the treatment of African American youth with APS, the other two chapters present strategies working with Latino American and Asian American youth with APS.
Li joined the FAMU faculty in 2012, after spending four years as a full-time researcher at the Harvard University Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conducting multicultural competence training seminars and clinical studies that promote diversity in health-related research. She was also a psychiatry instuctor in the Harvard Medical School.