Derald Wing Sue
| Derald Wing Sue | |
|---|---|
| Born | Portland, Oregon |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Professor, author |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oregon |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychology |
| Sub discipline | Counseling psychology |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Derald Wing Sue is a professor of counseling psychology at Columbia University. He has authored several books, including Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Overcoming our Racism, and Understanding Abnormal Behavior.
Sue was born in Portland, Oregon to a Chinese American family. His family lived in a predominantly wealthy white neighborhood, with his parents, four brothers, and one sister He remembers "being teased due to his ethnicity" during early childhood
He was later influenced in his studies in cross cultural counseling. Two individuals who influenced Sue's path of study were Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
He married his wife Paulina in the 1960s. They have two children.
Sue obtained his bachelor's degree from Oregon State University, and then a MS and PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon. After completing his degree, he became a counselor at the University of California, Berkeley counseling center, and was known as the counselor who supported Asian American students. During his time at Berkeley, he conducted mental health studies on Asian Americans, which then led him to coauthor two books: A Theory of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy and Understanding Abnormal Behavior.
In 1972, Sue and his brother Stanley, cofounded the Asian American Psychological Association. Sue was the founding president of the organization.
In 1981, Sue published Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice. In addition to being a professor of psychology at Teachers College, he served on Bill Clinton's President's Advisory Board on Race in 1996. He served as a past president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and the president of the Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Along with Melba J. T. Vasquez and Rosie Bingham, he co-founded the National Multicultural Conference and Summit in 1999.
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