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About Pamela A. Hays

Pamela A. Hays PhD is the author of Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment Diagnosis and Therapy and Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper's Toolkit. She is coeditor of the book Culturally Responsive CognitiveBehavioral Therapy. She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii and from 1987 to 1988 served as a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. From 1989 to 2000 she worked as a core faculty member of the graduate psychology program at Antioch University Seattle where she continues to teach once a year as adjunct. Dr. Hays's research has included work with Vietnamese Lao and Cambodian people living in the United States and with Arab Muslim women living in North Africa. Since 2000 she has been back in her hometown of Soldotna Alaska working in private practice and as a supervisor for the Kenaitze Tribe's Nakenu Family Center in Kenai Alaska.