Dr.
Rita
Chi

[NZBC]

Rita Chi-Ying Chung, Ph.D.
鍾賜英
鍾賜英
鍾賜英
鍾賜英

Hok Hoi (Xuehai)
學海村
學海村
學海村
學海村
Dr.
Rita
Chi:Ying Chung
was
born
and
raised
in
Wellington.
She
is the
second
daughter
and
the
middle
child
of
five
children
of
Daphne
Chung
(Pengdi
平地村 )
and
recently
deceased
father
Jack
Tai
Hing
Chung
(Hok
Hoi
學海村).
Her
maternal
grandfather
Young
Low
On was
a
foundation
member
of
Tung
Jung
Association
.
Her
father
was
past Vice:
President
and
Treasurer
of
the
Association
in
the
1950’s
to
1960’s.
He
was
also
a
foundation
member
of
the
Tung
Jung
Chinese
School.
In
1990
Jack
also
led
the
first
group
of
New
Zealand
Tung Jung
Association
members
on
a
visit
to
Zengcheng County.
The visit
resulted
in forming
a
positive
relationship
between
the Association
and
Zengcheng.







Rita
went
to
Muritai School
in Eastbourne
for
her
primary
education
where
her parents
had
a
fruit
shop.
Rita
rememers
that
one
of
the
daily
chores
she
and
her
sibligs
did
before
going
to school
was
to
bag potatoes

and
carrots.

When Rita attended
Wellington
East
Girls
College,
following
in
the
footsteps
of
her
older
sister,
she
worked
at
her
parent’s
Chinese
restaurant
–
the
Taipei in
Victoria
Street along
with
her
siblings.
Rita obtained
her

doctorate
in psychology
at
Victoria University
of
Wellington
in
1989
and
was
one
of
the
first
New
Zealand
born
Chinese
women
to
receive
a
doctorate.
Rita
also
received
the
prestigious
New
Zealand
Medical
Research
Council
(MRC
now
Health
Research
Council
[HRC])
and
had
the
distinction
of
being
the
first
person
to ever
receive
the
MRC
for
a

Public
Health
Fellowship.
The
MRC
funded Rita to
further
her
studies
overseas.
With
the
MRC
Fellowship
in
hand,
Rita

left
New
Zealand
in
1990
to
do
her
overseas
postdoctoral
fellowship
at
the
University of
California,
Los
Angels
(UCLA),
and
was
invited
to
work at
the
UCLA
National
Research
Center
on
Asian
American
Mental
Health
in
the
Psychology
Department.
She
later
became
a
the
project
director at
the
National
Research
Center
for
the
first
United States
national
study
examining
mental
health
issues
of
Chinese
Americans.
This
study
was
a
US$1.5
million
grant
awarded
by
the
United
States
National
Institute
of
Mental
Health.

Through
her
interactions
with
the
Chinese
American
community
she
found
parallel
experiences
with
the
Chinese
in
New
Zealand
and
those
of
their
U.S.
counterparts.
For
example,
there
is
a
shared
history
in
the
reason
for
migrating
to
the
U.S.
and
New
Zealand,
which
was
to
find
work
at
“Gold
Mountain”.





Since
being
in
the
U.S.
Rita
has
worked
for
The
Johns
Hopkins
University,
George
Washington
University

and
Ohio
State
University.
She
also
worked
as
a
consultant
for
the
World
Bank
in
Washington
D.C.
She
is
currently
a
Professor
at
George
Mason
University,
which
is
a
large
univesity
of
30,000
students
located
just
outside
of
Washington
D.C.

Rita
has
over
80
publications
in
professional
journals
and
book
chapters
in
major
psychology
and
counseling
text:
books,
as
well
as
a
book
that
she
co:authored
about

refugees.
Rita’s
work
is
often
cited
as
groundbreaking
and
she

is
internationally
known
for
her
research
with
Asian
immigrants
and
refugees,
social
justice
and
human

rights
issues.
Because
of
her
reputation
Rita
has
received
numerous
invitations
to
do
presentations
and
workshops
throughout
the
world
and
is
often times
invited
as
a
keynote
speaker
at
major
conferences
and
forums.
As illustration
of
Rita’s
significant
contributions
to
the
field
of
social
justice
and
human
rights
she
received
the
Counselors
for Social
Justice
(a
Division
of
the
American
Counseling
Association)
prestigious
Ohana
Award
for
her
work
in
these
areas,and
she
has
a
contract
with
a
major
book
publisher
to
write
a
book
on
social
justice
in
counseling.
She
attributes
her
success
to
her
parents
who
at
a
very
early
age
instilled
the
value of
hard
work,
social
justice,
and
human
rights.
Rita
also
learned
from
her
father,
Jack
Tai
Hing
Chung,
to
not
only
to
work
hard,
but
also
to
play
hard.
She
has
had
the
great
fortune
to
travel
around
the
world
many
times
for
both
work
and play,including
many
overseas
trips
with
both
her
parents.

Rita’s
recent
work
has
focused
on
issues
of
child
rghts
and
child
human
trafficking.
She
has
been
invited
by
Non governmental
Organizations
(NGOs),
such
as,
Save
the
Children
U.K.
to
work
in
Burma
(Manmar)
on
the
prevention
of
child
trafficking.
Given
her
work
on
child
rights,
she
has
been
invited
twice
to
the
United
Nations
in
New
York
to
talk
about
her
work
on
child
trafficking.
In
fact,
she
was
in
Burma
on
May
2008
doing
child
rights
and
child

trafficking
work
when
Cyclone
Nargis
destroyed
significant
portions
of
the
country.
Rita
described
the
situation
as
terrifying as
she
watched
from
her
hotel. Window
winds
at
approximately
240
kph
destroy

large
trees,
homes,
and
blow
in
hotel
windows.
The
cyclone
was
the
worst
one
in
Asia
since
1991.
Over
240,000
people
were
killed
and
over
2.4
million
were
severely
affected
and
lost
their
homes.
Fortunately,
Rita
is
also
experienced
in
postdisaster
trauma
counseling
and
worked
through
Save
the
Children
UK
to
provide
assistance
to
the
survivors
of
the
cyclone
with
funding
support
through
the
Norwegian
government.
Rita
has
also
worked
in
other
post disaster
situations
including
Thailand
after
the
Tsunami,
Mississippi
in
the
U.S.
after
Hurricane
Katrina
and
recently
in
Haiti
after
the
big
earthquake.

Based
on
the
recognition
Rita
has
received
for
her
national
work
in

the
U.S.
and
international
work
around
the
world,
she
was
recently
nominated
for
the
most
prestigious
award
one
can
receive
in
the
state
of
Virginia
in
the
United
States.
This
award
is
the
Virginia
Outstanding
Faculty Professor
of
the
Year
Award.
Universities
throughout
the
state
(there
are
over
60
universities
in
Virginia)
nominate
their
top
candidates
to
be
considered
for
this
highly
acclaimed
award.
Although
the
decision
for
the
winners
will
not
be
made
until
the
end
of
the
year,
it
is
an
honour
that
Rita
has
been
chosen
as
one
of
the
finalists
who
are
now
being
considered
for
the
honour
of
this
award.

Although
Rita
lives
in
the
U.S.,
and
works
not
only in
the
U.S.
but
globally,
she
is
still
a
New
Zealand
citizen
and
calls
Wellington
her
home.
She
comes
back
to
Wellington
to
visit
her
family
at
least
once
a
year.
Working
with
difficult
groups
and
challenging
situations,
such
as
disaster
survivors
or
those
who
have
been
subjected
to
human

right
violations,
requires
much
needed
R&R
(rest
and
relaxation).
For
R&R,
Rita
enjoys
spending
time
with
her
husband,
watching
movies,
walking,
and
just
like
her
father
(Jack)
enjoys
good
food,
wine,
socializing
with
friends,
and
travelling.
Rita
intends
to continue
her
father’s
legacy
by
working
hard
on
human
rights
issues
and
playing
hard
and
enjoying
life www.tungjung.org.nz/images/stories/newsletters/2010/Spring_issue_2010.pdf

[NZBC]

cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/rchung/ Rita Chi-Ying Chung

PhD, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Professor

Dr. Rita Ch-Ying Chung is a Professor at the Counseling & Development Program. Prior to coming to George Mason University, Dr. Chung was a Project Director for the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health at UCLA, a consultant for the World Bank, an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, as well as adjunct faculty for Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. Before coming to the United States Dr. Chung lived and worked in the Brazil, England, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.
Dr. Chung has published extensively in the fields of cross-cultural and multicultural psychology and counseling and has over 90 publications in professional journals and book chapters in major psychology and counseling textbooks, as well as, a book that she co-authored on refugees. She has recently co-authored a book with Dr. Fred Bemak entitled Soical Justice Counseling: The Next Steps Beyond Multiculturalism. The book is one of the first textbooks in the psychology and counseling fields and challenges training and practice with an emphasis on redefining the psychologist and counselor's role to include issues of social justice and human rights. This book coincides with a course that Dr. Chung developed and is currently teaching on Counseling and Social Justice. Also, Dr. Chung has been asked by the American Psychological Association to make a training DVD on counseling immigrants and by Alexander Street Press to make 3 DVDs on her: social justice work; post-disaster counseling and training; and the unique focus on multicultural social justice counseling training at the Counseling & Development Program at GMU.
Dr. Chung's research focuses on multicultural, cross-cultural, and social justice issues in counseling, cross cultural disaster counseling, child trafficking, the psychological impact of racism, immigrant and refugee psychosocial adjustment and adaptation, the interrelationship of academic achievement and psychological stress on students of color and interethnic race relationships. Her recent research is on the psychosocial issues in child trafficking. Her work on trafficking of Asian girls into commercial sex work led to an invitation by the United Nations in New York to present on cultural perspectives on children trafficking, human rights and social justice. Dr. Chung is also a consultant for numerous International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs), e.g., Save the Children Alliance, UK where she consulted and provide training on child protection and child trafficking in Myanmar (Burma).
Dr. Chung's is also involved with the Counselors Without Borders (http://counselorswithoutborders.org/.) and has co-led and co-supervised teams and groups of students working along the Mississippi Gulf coast three months after Hurricane Katrina, and on American Indian reservations and Latino migrant communities after the San Diego Wildfires. She has also done international post disaster consultation and training in Thailand after the Tsunami, in Burma after Cyclone Nargis and in Haiti three months after the major earthquake in 2010. Dr. Chung has worked throughout the United States as well as in the Asia, the Pacific Rim region, Africa, the U.K., Europe, and South America. Dr Chung has been the chair of the American Counseling Association (ACA) International Committee and the co-chair of the ACA Human Rights Committee..Dr. Chung has been acknowledged for her social justice work by being given numerous awards from both state and national organizations, e.g., the American Counseling Association (ACA) Kitty Cole Human Rights Award 2012, the ACA Gilbert and Kathleen Wrenn Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person 2013, the Outstanding Faculty Award 2013 by the State Council for Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), and the Commonwealth of Virginia General Assembly Commendation Award 2013.

[NZBC]

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5025
Offered April 3, 2013
Prefiled March 29, 2013
Commending Dr. Rita Chi-Ying Chung.
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Patrons Kory, Bulova, Keam, LeMunyon, and Scott, J.M.
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WHEREAS, Dr. Rita Chi-Ying Chung, a professor of counseling and development at George Mason University, was honored by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia with a 2013 Outstanding Faculty Award; and

WHEREAS, only the best of the Commonwealths faculty at public and private colleges and universities receive the prestigious Outstanding Faculty Award, which recognizes superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service; and

WHEREAS, as a young woman, Rita Chung traveled the world, witnessing extreme poverty and human suffering; she realized that in order to play a role in preventing human rights violations and helping those who had been victims of human rights abuses that she would need more education; and

WHEREAS, Rita Chung persevered and obtained two bachelors degrees, a masters degree, and a doctorate from the Victoria University of Wellington; and

WHEREAS, herself the daughter of Chinese immigrants in New Zealand, Rita Chung worked with Southeast Asian refugees from the Vietnam War during her doctoral studies and realized that many of the Western psychological theories and interventions did not work well with the Asian culture of the refugees; and

WHEREAS, Rita Chung drew upon her own growing up experience, heritage, and training in the martial arts to help these refugees and began to study and teach other professionals how more effectively to assist those from other cultures; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Chung was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in public health and traveled to the University of California, Los Angeles, to continue her work on immigrant groups and multicultural social justice issues in psychology; and

WHEREAS, in 2000, Dr. Chung joined the faculty of George Mason University and provided strong leadership in the transformation of the Counseling and Development Program into a program that has been recognized as one of the top three innovative counseling programs in the country by the American Counseling Association; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Chung has provided postdisaster counselor training; given workshops to such organizations as the United States Department of State and the World Bank; presented at major international conferences; and spoken twice at the United Nations at its invitation; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Chungs groundbreaking scholarship in culturally responsive prevention and intervention strategies resulted in her co-developing and publishing two culturally sensitive models of psychotherapy and has had a direct impact in theory, training, and practice in her field; and

WHEREAS, a renowned scholar, counselor, and educator, Dr. Chung is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including the 2012 Kitty Cole Human Rights Award from the American Counseling Association; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Chung has not only made substantial and lasting contributions to her field but strongly influenced its rising leaders; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend Dr. Rita Chi-Ying Chung on her selection as a 2013 State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award recipient; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Dr. Rita Chi-Ying Chung as an expression of the General Assemblys congratulations and respect and admiration for her significant contributions to her profession and service to those in need.