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Siyon Rhee, Dr.

Director & Professor
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States

Siyon Rhee, PhD & MSW, has been on faculty for twenty-nine years since 1993 at California State University, Los Angles, School of Social Work. Currently she is the Director and a full professor administering four academic programs including Undergraduate Social Work Program (BASW), 2-Year MSW, 3-Year MSW, and MSW One-Year Advanced Standing Program (ASP). In regards to her educational background, she earned her BA degree in sociology from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea; an MSW degree from UCLA; PhD from UCLA. She remained at UCLA as a post-doctoral fellow upon completion of her doctoral degree program. Her research primarily focuses on immigrant Asian American families in health behavior, mental health, risk of domestic violence, child maltreatment, and community-based program evaluation. Recently, she conducted a 5-year program evaluation for “the Prevention of Domestic Violence in the Immigrant Korean Community in Los Angeles” implemented by Korean American Family Services (KFAM) in terms of improvement in knowledge of intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse among first-generation Korean immigrants. She also conducted another program evaluation on the level of knowledge and intervention strategies among Korean American pastors before and after receiving training in IPV from KFAM.

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