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  1. Chang, D. F., Doucet, F., Whitney, J., Miao, I. Y., Yoo, N., Zwerger, N., Kaplan, J., Antoine, C., Romano, L., & Flook, L. (In press). Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a mindfulness-based critical consciousness training program for teachers. Mindfulness.

  2. Elsaesser, C., Chang, D.F., Proulx, J., Iacono, G., & Wong, R. (2026). Bridging inner work and outer change: Reimagining mindfulness research through the Mindful Tree of Justice framework, 96(2), 119-128. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000913

  3. Elsaesser, C., Chang, D. F., Iacono, G., Proulx, J., & Wong, Y.-L. (Special issue Eds.) (2026). Leveraging inner transformation for social transformation: Examining the role of mindfulness and contemplative practices in supporting justice. Special Issue, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. https://lnkd.in/eMB8_wmJ

  4. Cieri, N., Okamoto, A., & Chang, D.F. (2026). Cultural considerations for navigating alliance ruptures in CBT. In A. Okamodo (Ed.), Alliance Rupture and Repair in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies. Springer Nature.

  5. *Yoo, N., Park, M., & Chang, D.F.(2025). Utilizing computational methods to assess racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity and spatial accessibility of the clinical social work workforce in the United States. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 16(3), 519-556. https://doi.org/10.1086/738140

  6. Chang, D.F., Woo, E., *McNamara A., Gaither, T., Bergstrom, K., Roach, T., Goerling, R., Teshome, A., & Proulx, J. (2025). Mindfulness for Black community leaders engaged in racial justice work: A qualitative examination of a brief community group intervention. Journal of Orthopsychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000838

  7. Moore, K. L., *Rodwin, A. H., Gwadz, M., Chang, D. F., Collins, L. M., & Munson, M. R. (2025). A brief engagement intervention adapted for racial and ethnic minority young adults in mental health services: Protocol for a pilot optimization trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 05/05/2025:68885. https://doi.org/10.2196/68885

  8. Nicholson, H., *Yoo, N., Okazaki, S., Chang, D. F., & Craig, M. (2025). Inter-minority relations: Factors shaping cognitive and affective intergroup attitudes between Asian and Black Americans. Social Problems, spae075, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae075

  9. Thelamour, B., & Chang, D. F. (2025). Recognizing race: Podcasting to promote critical dialogue and self-reflection in multicultural psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 52(4), 478-482.  https://doi.org/10.1177/00986283241290136

  10. Chang, D. F., Donald, J., *Whitney, J., *Miao, I. Y., & Sahdra, B. (2024). Does mindfulness improve intergroup bias, internalized bias, and antibias outcomes? A meta-analysis and systematic review of the evidence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(10), 1487-1516.https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231178518

  11. *Paul, L., Chang, D. F., & *Bitney, C. (2024). Psychotherapy in Black and White: An examination of how race is discussed in a sample of Black American clients and their White American counselors. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000446

  12. Chang, D. F., & Lausell Bryant, L. (Eds.). (2024). Transforming Careers in Mental Health for BIPOC: Strategies to Promote Healing and Social Change (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003309796

  13. *Yoo, N., Nicholson, H., Chang, D. F., & Okazaki, S. (2023). Mapping anti-Asian xenophobia: State-level variation in implicit and explicit bias against Asian Americans across the United States. Socius, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/237802312311965

  14. Chang, D. F., *Yoo, N., *Lee, C., *Prasai, A., & Okazaki, S. (2023). From racial awakening to collective action: Asian Americans’ pathways to activism and benevolent support during COVID-19. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 29(4), 503–515.https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000617

  15. Chang, D. F., *Omidi, M., & *Dunn, J. J. (2023). Anti-oppressive approaches to the therapy relationship: A critical-cultural-relational model of rupture resolution. In C. Eubanks-Carter, L. Samstag, & C. Muran (Eds.), Rupture and repair in psychotherapy: A critical process of change (pp. 21–53). American Psychological Association.

  16. *Kanhai, G., & Chang, D. F. (2022). Factors contributing to West Indian American depression. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 25, 979–989. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-022-01434-5

  17. *Romano, L., & Chang, D. F. (2022). Right mindfulness in teacher education: Integrating Buddhist teachings with secular mindfulness to promote racial equity. Education Sciences, 12(11), 778–790. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12110778

  18. Okazaki, S., *Lee, C., *Prasai, A., Chang, D. F., & *Yoo, G. (2022). Disaggregating the data: Diversity of COVID-19 stressors, discrimination, and mental health among Asian American communities. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, Article 956076. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.956076

  19. Mogro-Wilson, C.,& Negi, N., Acquati, C., Bright, C., Chang, D. F., Clark Goings, T., Greenfield, J. C., Gurrola, M., Hicks, T., Loomis, A., Parekh, R., Strolin-Goltzman, J., Valdovinos, M. G., Walton, Q. L., & Windsor, L. (2022). Reflections from academic mothers of young children on social work research and education.Journal of Social Work Education, 58(1), 9–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2021.2014726

  20. Aiello, M., Bismar, D, Casanova, S., Casas, J. M., Chang, D. F., Chin, J. L. Comas-Diaz, L, Salvo Crane, L., Demir, Z., Garcia, M. A., Hita, L., Leverett, P., Mendez, K., Morse, G. S., O’Leary, M., Weil, M. C., & Blume, A. W. (2021). Protecting and defending our people: Nakni tushka anowa [The Warrior's Path] final report. APA Division 45 Warrior’s Path Presidential Task Force (2020), Journal of Indigenous Research, 9(2021), Article 8. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/kicjir/vol9/iss2021/8

  21. Chang, D. F., *Dunn, J. J., & *Omidi, M. (2021). A critical-cultural-relational approach to rupture resolution: A case illustration with a cross-racial dyad. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77, 369–383. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23080

  22. *Somerville, W., *Williams, S., *Miao, Y., *Dunn, J., & Chang, D. F.(2021). Identifying and remediating personal prejudice: What does the evidence say? In L. Benuto, M. Duckworth, A. Masuda, & W. O’Donohue (Eds.), Prejudice, stigma, privilege, and oppression: A behavioral health handbook (pp. 179–200). Springer.

  23. Chang, D. F., Hsieh, E., *Somerville, W. B., *Dimond, J., *Thomas, M., Nicasio, A., Boiler, M., & Lewis-Fernández, R. (2021). Rethinking interpreter functions in mental health services. Psychiatric Services72(3), 353–357. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000085

  24. Chang, D. F., *Ng, N., Chen, T., Hung, T., *Miao, I. Y., Cao, Y. P., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Let nature take its course: Cultural adaptation and implementation of Taoist cognitive therapy for Chinese American immigrants with generalized anxiety disorder. Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.547852

  25. *Whitney, J., & Chang, D. F. (2020). Inner tradition made visible: The interpersonal benefits and effects of meditation practice on close relationships. Current Psychology, 41(4), 2207–2217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-00738-9

  26. Sahdra, B., Ciarrochi, J., Parker, P. D., Craven, R., Brockman, R., Devine, E. K., Conigrave, J., & Chang, D. F.(2020). Discrimination as a frame-of-reference effect in overlapping friendship communities of ethnically diverse youth. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 26(1), 71–81. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000247

  27. *Somerville, W., *Marcus, S., & Chang, D. F.(2019). Multicultural competence-focused peer supervision: A multiple case study of clinical and counseling psychology trainees. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 47(4), 274–294. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.12158

  28. *Benjamin, T., Chang, D. F., & Steele, M. (2019). A qualitative study of “fa’a’amu” kinship care experiences in Tahiti. Adoption Quarterly, 22(3), 173–198. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2019.1625835

  29. Chang, D. F., *Miao, I. Y., & Cao, Y. P. (2019). Returning to the source: The development and application of Taoist cognitive therapy to Chinese immigrants in the United States. In Y. P. Cao (Ed.), Psychological counseling and psychotherapy: Clinical research and analysis (pp. 518–529). People's Health Publishing House. [In Chinese]

  30. Chang, D. F., *Feldman, K., & *Easley, H. (2017). “I'm learning to not tell you”: Adult Korean transracial adoptees' appraisals of White parents' racial socialization strategies and their perceived effects. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 8(4), 308–322. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000091

  31. *Okun, L., Chang, D. F., *Kanhai, G., *Dunn, J., & *Easley, H. (2017). Inverting the power dynamic: The process of first sessions of psychotherapy with therapists of color and non-Latino White patients. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 64(4), 443–452. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000223

  32. Chang, D. F., Hung, T., *Ng, N., *Ling, A., Chen, T., Cao, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2016). Taoist cognitive therapy: Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder in a Chinese immigrant woman. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 7(3), 205–216.https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000052

  33. Kaplan, J., & Chang, D. F. (2016). Mindfulness in practice: Incorporating mindfulness inside and outside of sessions. In E. Zerbo, A. Schlecter, S. Desai, & P. Levounis (Eds.), Becoming mindful: Integrating mindfulness into your psychiatric practice (pp. 61–78). American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

  34. Lau, A. S., Chang, D. F., Okazaki, S., & Bernal, G. (2016). Psychotherapy research with ethnic minorities: What is the research agenda? In N. W. S. Zane, G. Bernal, & F. T. L. Leong (Eds.), Evidence-based psychological practice with ethnic minorities: Culturally informed research and clinical strategies (pp. 31–53). APA Books.

  35. Shi, Q., Yu, P., Senf, W., & Chang, D. F. (2015). Counseling and psychotherapy in China: Yang’s story. In R. Moodley, M. Sookoor, U. Gielen, & R. Wu (Eds.). Therapy without borders: International and cross-cultural case studies handbook (pp. 73–78).American Counseling Association Books.

  36. Ruglass, L. M., Hien, D. A., Hu, M., Campbell, A. N. C., Caldeira, N., Miele, G. M., & Chang, D. F. (2014). Racial/ethnic match and treatment outcomes for women with PTSD and substance use disorders receiving community-based treatment. Community Mental Health Journal, 50(7), 811–822. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-014-9732-9

  37. Yeung, A., & Chang, D. F. (2014). Mood disorders in Asians. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 7, 71–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2013.11.008

  38. Ryder, A., Chentosova-Dutton, Y., Chang, D. F., & Butler, E. (Special issue Eds.). (2013). Contextual shaping of health and well-being: Contributions from cultural-clinical psychology. Special Issue, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology.https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/698/contextual-shaping-of-health-and-well-being-contributions-from-cultural-clinical-psychology/magazine

  39. Chang, D. F., Cao, Y.-P., Shi, Q., Wang, C., & Qian, M. (2012). Counseling and psychotherapy in China: Building capacity to serve 1.3 billion. In R. Moodley, U. P. Gielen, & R. Wu (Eds.), Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy in an international context (pp. 182–192). Routledge.

  40. Yeung, A., & Chang, D. F. (2012). Mood disorders. In E. Chang (Ed.), Handbook of adult psychopathology in Asians: Theory, diagnosis, and treatment (pp. 108–142). Oxford University Press.

  41. Chang, D. F., & *Yoon, P. (2011). Ethnic minority clients’ perceptions of the significance and impact of race in cross-racial therapy. Psychotherapy Research, 21(5), 567–582. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2011.592549

  42. Cao, Y. P., Zhang, Y. L., Chang, D. F., Yang, S. C., & Wang, G. Q. (2011). Correlations between self-reported symptoms and psychosocial factors of perpetrators of domestic violence in China: A population-based sample. Chinese Medical Journal, 124(4), 546–550.

  43. Lau, A. S., Chang, D. F., & Okazaki, S. (2010). Methodological challenges in treatment outcome research with ethnic minorities. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(4), 573–580. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021371

  44. *Obeid, N., Chang, D. F., & Ginges, J. (2010). Beliefs of wife beating: A Lebanese case. Violence Against Women, 16(6), 691–712. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801210370465

  45. Chang, D. F., & *Berk, A. (2009). Making cross-racial therapy work: A phenomenological study of clients’ experiences of cross-racial therapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 56(4), 521–536.https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016905

  46. *Fuller, C., Chang. D. F., & Rubin, L. R. (2009). Sliding under the radar: Passing and power amongst sexual minorities. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 3(2), 128–151. https://doi.org/10.1080/15538600903005334

  47. Chang, D. F., Shen, B. J., & Takeuchi, D. T. (2009). Prevalence and predictors of intimate partner violence in Asian Americans. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 32(3), 167–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2009.02.004

  48. Cao, Y. P., Zhang, Y. L., Chang, D. F., Wang, G. Q., & Zhang, X. H. (2009). Psychosocial and immunological factors in neurasthenia. Psychosomatics, 50(1), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psy.50.1.24

  49. Leong, F., Lee, S.-H., & Chang, D. F. (2008). Counseling and psychotherapy with Asian Americans: Client and therapist variables. In P. B. Pedersen, J. G. Draguns, W. J. Lonner, & J. E. Trimble (Eds.), Counseling across cultures (6th ed., pp. 113–128). SAGE Publications.

  50. Chang, D. F., & *Demyan, A. (2007). Teachers’ stereotypes of Asian, Black, and White students. School Psychology Quarterly,22(2), 91–114. https://doi.org/10.1037/1045-3830.22.2.91

  51. Cao, Y., Zhang, Y., & Chang, D. F. (2006). A comparison study of domestic violence in Hunan, China. The Yale-China Health Journal, 4, 27–44.

  52. Breslau, J. A., & Chang, D. F.(2006). Psychiatric disorders among foreign-born and U.S.-born Asians and Pacific Islanders in a U.S. National Survey. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41(12), 943–950. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-006-0119-2

  53. Kim, I., Lau, A. S., & Chang, D. F.(2006). Family violence. In F. Leong, A. Inman, A. Ebreo, L. Yang, L. Kinoshita, & M. Fu (Eds.), Handbook of Asian American psychology (pp. 363–378). SAGE Publications.

  54. Leong, F., Chang, D. F., & Lee, S.-H. (2006). Counseling and psychotherapy with Asian Americans: Process and outcome. In F. Leong, A. Inman, A. Ebreo, L. Yang, L. Kinoshita, & M. Fu (Eds.), Handbook of Asian American psychology (pp. 429–447). SAGE Publications.

  55. Chang, D. F., Myers, H. F., Yeung, A., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., & Yu, S. (2005). Shenjing Shuairuo and the DSM-IV: Diagnosis, distress, and disability in a Chinese primary care setting. Transcultural Psychiatry, 42, 204–218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461505052660

  56. Chang, D. F., Tong, H., Shi, Q., & Zeng, Q. (2005). Letting a hundred flowers bloom: Counseling and psychotherapy in the People’s Republic of China. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 27(2), 104–116. https://doi.org/10.17744/mehc.27.2.hxfupdhht26b30a6

  57. Yeung, A., Xu, Y., & Chang, D. F.(2005). Prevalence and illness beliefs of sleep paralysis among Chinese patients in primary care. Transcultural Psychiatry, 42(2), 135–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461505050725

  58. Li, M., Chang, D. F., Tong, H., & Shang, Z. (2005). A brief history of psychotherapy in China. In Q. J. Shi, Q. F. Zeng, X. C. Sheng, & W. Senf (Eds.), Psychotherapy: Theories and practice. Chinese Medicine Pharmacy Science Publishing House. (In Chinese)

  59. Yeung, A., Chang, D. F., Gresham, R. L., Nierenberg, A. A., & Fava, M. (2004). Illness beliefs of depressed Chinese American patients in primary care. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192(4), 324–327. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nmd.0000120892.96624.00

  60. Chang, D. F. (2003). An introduction to the politics of science: Culture, race, and ethnicity and the supplement to the surgeon general’s report on mental health. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 27(4), 273–283. https://doi.org/10.1023/b:medi.0000005475.97000.8a

  61. Chang, D. F., Good, M. J. D. V., & Good, B. (Special issue Eds.). (2003). The politics of science: Culture, race, ethnicity, and the supplement to the Surgeon General’s report on mental health. Special Issue, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 27(4), 373–383. https://doi.org/10.1023/b:medi.0000005475.97000.8a

  62. Chang, D. F., & Sue, S. (2003). The effects of race and problem type on teachers’ assessments of student behavior. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71(2), 235–242. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006x.71.2.235

  63. Yeung, A., & Chang, D. F. (2002). Cultural formulation of psychiatric diagnosis. Adjustment disorder: Intergenerational conflicts in a Chinese immigrant family. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 26, 509–525. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1021738929069

  64. Chang, D. F., & Kleinman, A. (2002). Growing pains: Mental health care in a developing China. Yale-China Health Studies Journal, 1(1), 85–98.

  65. Chang, D. F., Xu, Y., Kleinman, A., & Kleinman, J. (2002). Psychiatric rehabilitation of schizophrenia patients in China: The Shanghai model. In A. Cohen, A. Kleinman, & B. Saraceno (Eds.), The World Mental Health Casebook (pp. 27–50). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  66. Zhang, Y., Young, D., Lee, S., Zhang, H., Xiao, Z., Hao, W., Feng, Y., Zhou, H., & Chang, D. F. (2002). Chinese Taoist cognitive psychotherapy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder in contemporary China. Transcultural Psychiatry, 39(1), 115–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/136346150203900105

  67. Chang, D. F. (2002). Understanding the rates and distribution of mental disorders. In K. S. Kurasaki, S. Okazaki, & S. Sue (Eds.), Asian American mental health: Assessment theories and methods (pp. 9–27). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  68. Chang, D. F., Chun, C.-A., Takeuchi, D., & Shen, H. (2000). The SF-36 Health Survey: Tests of data quality, scaling assumptions, and reliability in a community sample of Asian Americans. Medical Care, 38(5), 542–548. https://doi.org/0.1097/00005650-200005000-00010

  69. Kaplan, J. S., Chang, D. F., Abe-Kim, J., & Takeuchi, D. T. (1998). Ethnicity and mental health. In H. Friedman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of mental health (pp. 161–172). Academic Press.