EP36: Dr. Eunice Yuen on identity and acculturative stress

We all have multiple identities, even if we did not move from Hong Kong to Florida at age 16 as a parachute kid, like Dr. Eunice Yuen. Dr. Yuen shares her story and how that has influenced her in her work as an adolescent psychiatrist and founder of Yale CHATogether. Navigating work and home culture can also produce acculturative stress, and this is an episode for us all. Dr. Eunice Yuen, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry from the Yale School of Medicine and Child Study Center. She integrates clinical and research work in a bio-psycho-social cultural framework. She is interested in mental health, from genetic and neurobiological underpinnings to practical interventions and education within communities. She looks at acculturative stress, a stress common to many immigrants, affecting children and families in a cross-generational manner. Dr. Yuen is the Founder and Director of Yale Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether), which is a program that uses interactive theater as an educational tool to increase wellness in Asian American families across generations.