Alderson, Kevin GeorgeChan, Kingsley2013-04-252013-06-102013-04-252013Chan, K. (2013). East-Asian Counselling Psychologists' Experience of Psychology in Canada (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25774http://hdl.handle.net/11023/619This study explored East-Asian counselling psychologists’ experience of psychology in Canada. Participants included 6 counselling psychologists practicing in Alberta, each with between 3 and 21 years of experience. The cultures of origin for the participants included Hong Kong, China, and Korea. Data was gathered using a semi-structured interview, and dialogic-performative narrative analysis was completed. Four categories emerged: cultural values, personal cultural identity formation, culture in relation to practice, and personal information. Several themes and sub-themes also emerged. The findings were the first to highlight advantages offered to counselling psychologists of East-Asian descent resulting from experiential knowledge gained through their upbringing. Cultural identification, experiential knowledge, and bilingual language skills were beneficial in work with clients. These findings indicate a need for further exploration into counselling psychologist’s unique cultural identities in their work within a counselling context, and suggest that greater attention to experiential learning components be implemented at the training level.engUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.Educational PsychologyMulticulturalEast-AsianNarrativeCounsellingmaster thesishttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25774