I am an academic with Athabasca University for the past 18+ years and am a professor and registered psychologist within the Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology. I enjoy fostering a premier graduate counselling education program. My clinical work supports women and individuals from a life-course perspective, shifting negative and traumatic intergenerational patterns to proliferating a legacy of change for future generations.
As a maternal mental health and wellness practitioner/scholar focusing on mothering/parenting from a feminist critical lens, I edited 'Moms Gone Mad: Motherhood Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment' (2012, Demeter Press); co-edited 'East Asian Mothering: Politics and Practices' (2014, Demeter Press). My co-edited book ‘Infanticide and Filicide: Foundations in Maternal Mental Health Forensics’ (Wong & Parnham, 2021) was published by the American Psychiatric Association.
I supervise psychologists and consult on perinatal forensic mental health, and offer consultation on treating and assessing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and becoming a perinatal forensic expert witness. I am the co-chair of the Postpartum Support International. I also direct the Maternal Mental Health research and advocacy group at AU as well as the Asian Mental Health research and advocacy group within AU and across Canada.
I founded the Asian Gold Ribbon campaign and the Asian Mental Health Collective-Canada, as a response to anti-Asian racism and the urgent need for attention on anti-racist practices.
With training in Circle of Security as an evaluator and treatment advisor, I support parents in furthering their interpersonal responses to their infants and toddlers to build bonds and secure-base relationships. A key element is increasing reflective functioning in the process of improving parent reactions to children in times of high stress. My interests include working with Indigenous communities to enhance reflective capacities for caregiver success in shifting patterns of intergenerational trauma.
M.Sc. in Family Ecology & Practice, the University of Alberta
Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology, the University of Alberta
Professional affiliations
International MARCE Society for Perinatal Mental Health
College of Alberta Psychologists
Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association
Books
Wong, G., & Parnham, P. (Eds.) (2021). Infanticide and Filicide: Foundations in maternal mental health forensics. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Duncan, P., & Wong, G. (Eds.). (2014). Mothering in East Asian communities: Politics and practices. Toronto, ON: Demeter Press.
Wong, G. (Ed.). (2012). Moms gone mad: Motherhood and Madness Oppression and Resistance. Toronto, ON: Demeter Press.
Wong-Wylie, G. (2010). Counsellor know thyself: Growing ourselves, shaping our professional practice, and enhancing education through reflective practice. VDM Verlag Press, Saarbruken: Germany
Book chapters
Wong, G., & Parnham, G. (2021). Introduction and preface to Infanticide and filicide: Foundations in maternal mental health forensics. In G. Wong and G. Parnham (Eds.), Infanticide and filicide: Foundations in maternal mental health forensics. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Wong, G., & Bell, K. (2021). Becoming an expert witness in maternal filicide cases. In G. Wong and G. Parnham (Eds.), Infanticide and filicide: Foundations in maternal mental health forensics. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Rock, K., Corkett, A., Shekarak Ghashghaei, N., & Wong, G. (2021). Maternal filicide in Canadian news: A decade in review. In G. Wong and G. Parnham (Eds.), Infanticide and filicide: Foundations in maternal mental health forensics. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Erickson, N. L., Julian, M., Handelzalts, J. E., Wong, G., & Muzik, M. (2021). Trauma and attachment: Preventing maternal filicide through the generations. In G. Wong and G. Parnham (Eds.), Infanticide and filicide: Foundations in maternal mental health forensics. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Wong, G. (2019) A Chinese mother’s journey to self: 冇用 Moh-Yoong. In S. Collins (Ed.), Embracing cultural responsivity and social justice: Re-shaping professional identity in counselling psychology [EPub version]. Retrieved from https://www.vitalsource.com/en-ca/
Henriques, T., & Wong, G. (2018). The pervasive discourse of mononormativity: Practice Illustration. In S. Collins (Ed.), Embracing cultural responsivity and social justice: Re-shaping professional identity in counselling psychology [EPub version]. Retrieved from https://www.vitalsource.com/en-ca/
Peer reviewed journal publications
Lam, G., Collins, S., & Wong, G. (2020). Alone in paradise: A review of the literature related to single, immigrant mothers in Canada. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Maternal Health and Wellbeing, 11, 51-72.
Grey, L., Wong, G., Cook, K., & Rempel, G. (2020). Expanding Qualitative Research Interviewing Strategies: Zoom Video Communications. The Qualitative Report. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol25/iss5/9/
De Roo, M., Wong, G., Rempel, G.R., & Fraser, S.N. (2019). Advancing optimal development in children: Examining the construct validity of a parent reflective functioning questionnaire. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 2 (1): e11561. https://pediatrics.jmir.org/2019/1/e11561 DOI: 10.2196/11561
Sawers, M., & Wong, G. (2018). Pregnancy and Childbirth: Postpartum Anxiety (PPA) and Support for New Mothers. Journal of the motherhood initiative for research and community involvement (JMI), 9, 45-59. Retrieved from https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/index
Walker, A., & Wong, G. (2018). Working with clients who choose Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID): A new landscape for counsellors. Canadian Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy, 52, 366-385. Retrieved from http://www.ccacc.ca/
Founder of the Asian Gold Ribbon campaign and the Asian Mental Health Collective Canada
co-chair of the Postpartum Support International Canada
co-chair of the International MARCE for Perinatal Mental Health Special Interest Group on Reproductive Forensic Mental Health