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Long Bio
Alisia (Giac-Thao) Tran is an associate professor in the Counseling and Counseling Psychology program at Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. She heads the Tran Ethnic and Minority Psychology and Experiences (TEMPE) Lab. Her broad research interests are in minority equity, mental health, and development. Her current emerging research focus is on student-athlete mental health, as well as socioeconomic disparities and financial stressors. Other major research foci include discrimination, ethnic-racial or cultural socialization, and ethnic minority psychology. Her research draws on methodological approaches from Counseling Psychology, Social Psychology, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Psychology, and Public Health. Her clinical interests are in Pediatric Neuropsychology and Psychology. Her advocacy work is based in local and national Asian American communities and organizations, as well as in APA Division 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology).
Tran completed her doctoral training and clinical internship at the University of Minnesota. She has been humbled and honored by her selection as the 2021 American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program Early Career Awardee for research, 2018 Asian American Psychological Association Early Career Research awardee, the 2017 Arizona Psychological Association Faculty of the Year, a 2014 APA Minority Fellowship Psychology Summer Institute Fellow, and a 2013 Division 17 Leadership Academy member.
Education
Ph.D. Psychology (Counseling Psychology, APA-accredited); University of Minnesota 2012
M.A. Psychology (Counseling Psychology), University of Minnesota 2009
B.A. Psychology and Sociology, University of California-Berkeley 2004
Athlete mental health, financial stress, socioeconomic disparities, discrimination, cultural socialization, ethnic minority psychology and development
Publications
SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS
Tran, A. G. T. T., Holzapfel, J.*, Lam, C. K.*, & Eustice, K. L. (in press). Race and student-athlete status: Peer appraisals of academic skills, intelligence, and favorability. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000339
Tran, A. G. T. T. (2021). In or out of the game? Counter-stereotype paradoxes and Asian-identified student-athlete mental health. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27, 579-582. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000387
Tran, A. G. T. T., Mintert, J. S.*, Llamas, J. D., & Lam, C.* (2018). At what costs? Student loan debt and racially/ethnically diverse students’ health. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24, 459-469.
