Dr. Gina Wong

Professor

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E-mail: ginaw@athabascau.ca

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Dr. Gina Wong

Dr. Gina Wong

Professor

Contact information

Email: ginaw@athabascau.ca

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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.

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Research interests

  • Maternal Mental Health
  • Perinatal Mental Health Forensics
  • Circle of Security Parenting
  • Asian Mental Health

Educational credentials

  • 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