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WINNIE KUNG Associate Professor
Dr. Kung received her Bachelors in Social Science at the University of Hong Kong, her M.S.W. at Washington University, and her Phd.D. at the University of Chicago. Her research interest is related to mental health and families, with an emphasis on cultural impacts. Her past studies and publications include the relationship between marital distress and depression, Chinese American caregivers' burden and causal attributions schizophrenia, Chinese Americans' help-seeking behaviors, barriers to mental health treatment, and integration of primary care and mental health services. She is currently developing an ethnic sensitive family intervention for Chinese American caregivers of patients suffering from schizophrenia.
Dr. Kung taught for seven years at the University of Southern California before joining Fordham. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong for a year during which she collaborated and published a study on divorced women in Hong Kong. In the study, the impact of the sociocultural context on shaping women's divorce experience, their stress and coping, and effective interventions to help them adjust were examined. During the summer of 2006, she went on a Fulbright-Hays Seminar Trip to China studying issues related to women and minority groups.
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