Yan Yuan (PI), post-doctoral fellow in the School of Social Work working with Center for Interventions to Enhance Community Health (CiTECH), has received the 2021 Visionary Grant from the American Psychological Foundation for $19,706.
Her collaborators include Drs. Christina Newhill (Social Work), Valerie Hruschak (Harvard), Chetram-Frazier (Radiance Counseling Center & Southern New Hampshire University), and Dr. Shaun Eack (Social Work/CiTECH).
Her community partner, Radiance Counseling Center (RCC), is an interdisciplinary counseling center, providing a plethora of therapeutic interventions designed to help clients challenged by a range of circumstances. RCC has a special focus on providing clinical support to the Asian community.
This project aims to examine a culturally competent individual psychosocial program for women of Asian descent suffering from Intimate Partner Violence. The 12-week program has a special focus on cultural factors and trauma-related emotions. Knowledge obtained from this study will inform the development of timely, accurate and culturally-responsive screening protocols for detection of IPV. More importantly, pilot data generated from this project will lay critical groundwork for the development and testing of an innovative holistic practice among a wider array of Asian ethnic groups to address IPV and prevent future violence.