Gordon C. Nagayama Hall Author of Evaluating Organization Development
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Gordon C. Nagayama Hall

Professor of Psychology
University of Oregon

Gordon C. Nagayama Hall is a Professor of Psychology in the clinical psychology program at the University of Oregon. Dr. Hall received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fuller Theological Seminary. His blog for Psychology Today is “Life in the Intersection: A Multicultural Psychology Approach”. His research interests are in culture and mental health with a particular interest in Asian Americans.

Biography

Gordon C. Nagayama Hall is a Professor of Psychology in the clinical psychology program at the University of Oregon. He previously was a Professor of Psychology at Penn State University and Kent State University. Dr. Hall received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fuller Theological Seminary. His paternal grandparents emigrated to the United States from England and his maternal grandparents emigrated to the United States from Japan in the early 1900s. His mother and her family were incarcerated in an internment camp at Poston, Arizona during World War II because they were Japanese Americans. His parents were married at a time when there were still anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Dr. Hall served as President of the American Psychological Association (APA) Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45) and as President of the Asian American Psychological Association. He was Editor of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. His blog for Psychology Today is “Life in the Intersection: A Multicultural Psychology Approach”. Dr. Hall’s honors include the Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity from the APA Division of Clinical Psychology (Division 12), the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award from APA Division 45 (Culture, Ethnicity, and Race), and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Psychological Association. His research interests are in culture and mental health with a particular interest in Asian Americans.

Education

    PhD., Fuller Theological Seminary, CA, 1982
    BS, University of Washington, Seattle, 1977

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Clinical psychology, culture and mental health

Personal Interests

    College sports, 1960s music

Books

Featured Title
 Featured Title - Multicultural Psychology 3e - 1st Edition book cover

Articles

Behavior Therapy

A Meta-Analysis of Cultural Adaptations of Psychological Interventions


Published: Dec 07, 2017 by Behavior Therapy
Authors: Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Alicia Yee Ibaraki, Ellen R. Huang, C. Nathan Marti, Eric Stice
Subjects: Psychological Science

A meta-analysis of 13,998 participants in 78 studies with psychopathology outcomes favored the effectiveness of culturally adapted interventions over other conditions. There was a medium effect size favoring the effectiveness of culturally adapted interventions over unadapted versions of the same intervention. Culturally adapted interventions had 4.68 times greater odds than other conditions to produce remission from psychopathology.

American Psychologist

On Becoming Multicultural in a Monocultural Research World: A Conceptual Approac


Published: Dec 01, 2016 by American Psychologist
Authors: Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Tiffany Yip, Michael A. Zarate
Subjects: Developmental Psychology, Research Methods & Statistics, Psychological Science, Social Psychology

We identify the importance of clear and conceptually guided ethnocultural research, and describe multiple perspectives in the field. In contrast to conventional approaches to culture that apply existing models toother groups, we propose an “inside-out” model that prizes the perspectives of those inethnocultural communities that are underrepresented in research and places a secondary emphasis on generalizability.