Regional Representatives
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Central and South AfricaAlmon Shumba, Zimbabwe, ashumba@ufh.ac.za Almon Shumba, PhD., is Associate Professor in the School of Post Graduate Studies at the University of Fort Hare (UFH) , Main Campus, South Africa. He is also Central and Southern Africa Representative of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. He is author of the article entitled: Emotional abuse in the Classroom: A Cultural Dilemma?Journal of Emotional Abuse, 2004, 4, 139-149. Moreover he has co-authored one book with colleagues, written six book chapters, and authored more than 40 journal articles and other publications. |
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East AsiaYun-Joo Chyung , South Korea, ychyung@incheon.ac.kr Yun-joo Chyung, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Child Studies at the University of Incheon, Incheon, Korea. She serves as Regional representative of East Asia for the International Society of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. Her interests center on parental influences on psychological adjustment among children and adolescents. |
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EuropeMarjolijn Blom, Netherlands, m.j.m.blom@uva.nl Marjolijn J.M. Blom, Ph.D., is Research Coordinator at the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) at the Ministry of Justice, The Hague, the Netherlands. She developed and works on the research program regarding severe juvenile delinquents and treatment. Additionally, she serves as the Europpean Regional Representative of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. She is coauthor of "Bridging parental acceptance-rejection theory in the pre-school strange situation," and of the "Review of parental acceptance-rejection theory studies of intimate adult relationships," and of other publications. |
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Insular Pacific and AustraliaRapson Gomez , Australia, r.gomez@ballarat.edu.au Rapson Gomez, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Tasmania. As a clinical child psychologist, his clinical and academic work have included the application and teaching of parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory) in the treatment of childhood and adolescent problems. His current research deals with the relevace of PARTheory for helping to inderstand the relationship between Beck's cognitive theory and Gray's reinforcement theory, within the context of mood induction studies. |
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Mexico, Central America, & The CaribbeanClaudia Alvarez, Puerto Rico, claualv@hotmail.com Claudia Alvarex, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor currently teaching in the Department of Education in the Master's Program for Research and Evaluation in Education at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. Her research interests focus on interpersonal acceptance-rejection among partners as well as on instrument development and after-school programs. |
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North Africa & The Middle EastRamadan Ahmed, Kuwait, ramadan78am@hotmail.com Ramadan A. Ahmed, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology in the College of Scoial Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait. He has been interested in research on parental acceptance-rejection since 1985. He co-conducted supervised studies on the relation between perceptions of parental acceptance-rejection and variables such as development of moral judgement, phobias, and indentity disorders. He is currently conducting a study on the reliability of the Short and Standard forms of the Arabic language versions of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire. He and others are also studying the relationship between the perception of parental acceptance-rejection, and perceptions of best friends', sibling', and teachers' behavior in relation to personality dispositions in Kuwaiti youth. In 2008, he received APA's Outstanding International Psychologist Award, for researchers outside the United States of America. |
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North AmericaShaila Khan, U.S.A., skhan@tougaloo.edu Shaila Khan, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She recieved her Masters in Organizational Psychology and Ph.D. in Social PSychology from the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has conducted cross-cultural research among Bangladeshi college students as well as among African American college students on parental acceptance-rejection, intimate relationships, corporal punishment, and psychologucal well-being. Additionally, she has done research in student achievement and its relationship to perceived parental and teacher acceptance-rejection in the Mississippi Delta. During the summer she teaches in Bangladesh as a Visiting Professor. |
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South AmericaKaren Ripoll-Núñez, Colombia, kripoll@uniandes.edu.co Karen Ripoll-Núñez, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia, South America. Her research interests include intimate adult relationships and corporal punishment in cross-cultural perspective. |
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South AsiaMuhammad Kamal Uddin, Bangladesh, kamaluddin67@hotmail.com Muhammad Kamal Uddin, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also Director of the Bangladesh Institute of Psychological Services and Human Resource Development (BIPSHURD), Dhaka. Additionally, he serves as South Asian Representative of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. He has published over 30 papers, including book chapters, journal articles, and conference proceedings. Moreover, he has worked as a Consultant Psychologist in a project with International Labor Organizations (ILO). There he was involved in the process of selection and placement of senior administrative officers of a private company. |
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Southeast AsiaShamsul Haque, Malaysia, shaque@webmail.monash.edu.my Shamsul Haque, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia, and Academic Coordinator of psychology in the School of Medicine and health Sciences at Monash University, Malaysia. His research in cognitive psychology includes the recollection process of autobiographical memory, memory and culture, and the neuropsychology of autobiographical memory. His current research interests consist of parent-child relationships and children's memory. |