Professor Winnie Mak

Postdoctoral Fellow, Clinical Services Research Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Ph.D., Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology Program, with emphasis in Clinical Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara. APA-Accredited
Predoctoral Internship, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute
University of South Florida. APA-Accredited Internship
M.A., Counseling Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A., Psychology, with specialization in Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles(Summa Cum Laude and Highest Departmental Honors)

Assistant Professor (by courtesy), School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

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Professor Winnie Mak 
Biography 
Professor Winnie Wing Sze Mak obtained her BA in Psychology, with specialization in Asian American Studies summa cum laude and highest departmental honors at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. With a clinical training fellowship from the Minority Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association, she obtained her MA in Counseling Psychology in 1997 and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000. She then received postdoctoral training in clinical services research under the National Institute of Health National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco until 2002. Having lived in the United States for over twenty years, she returned to Hong Kong, her birthplace, in 2002 to pursue her academic career at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her work has been published in Social Science and Medicine, Psychology and Health, Psychiatric Services, and Counseling Psychologist, among other psychology and psychiatry journals. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in clinical psychology, including personal growth, sexuality, introduction to clinical psychology, practicum, and personality assessment. She values and enjoys mentoring her students and actively engages her students early in their training on a variety of research activities. Professor Mak was the recipient of the 2006 CUHK Vice Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award for the
Faculty of Social Science.
Research interests 
Her research interests are in the areas of stigma of social minorities, sociocultural influences on illness behaviors, and topics related to cultural diversity, community and health psychology.
Select Publications
Mak, W. W. S., Law, R. W. M., Woo, J., Cheung, F. M., & Lee, D. (in press). Social support and psychological adjustments to SARS: The mediating role of self-care self-efficacy. Psychology and Health.
Mak, W. W. S., Poon, C. Y. M., Pun, L. Y. K., & Cheung, S. F. (in press). Meta-analysis of stigma and mental health. Social Science and Medicine. 
Mak, W. W. S., Chen, S. X., Lam, A. G., & Yiu, V. F. L. (in press). Understanding distress: The role of face concern among Chinese Americans, European Americans, Hong Kong Chinese, and Mainland Chinese. The Counseling Psychologist.
Cheng, S. T., & Mak, W. W. S. (in press). Community psychology in a borrowed place with borrowed time: The case of Hong Kong. In S. Reich, M. Riemer, I. Prilleltensky, & M. Montero (Eds.), International Community Psychology: History and Theories. Kluwer Academic/Springer.. 
Mak, W. W. S., Cheung, R. Y. M., Law, R.W., Woo, J., Li, P. C. K., & Chung, R. W. Y. (2007). Examining attribution model of self-stigma on social support and psychological well-being among people with HIV+/AIDS. Social Science and Medicine, 64, 1549-1559.  
Wu, C. F. M., Mak, W. W. S., & Wan, D. L. Y. (2007). Quality of life of mental health consumers in Hong Kong: Analysis of service perceptions. Quality of Life Research, 16, 31-40.
Mak, W. W. S., & Ho, G. S. M. (2007). Caregiving perceptions of Chinese mothers of children with intellectual disability in Hong Kong. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(2), 145-156. 
Mak, W. W. S., Ho, A. H. Y., & Law, R. W. (2007). Sense of coherence, parenting attitudes, and stress among mothers of children with autism in Hong Kong. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(2), 157-167.
Mak, W. W. S., & Wu, C. F. M. (2006). Cognitive insight and attribution on self-stigma of individuals with schizophrenia. Psychiatric Services, 57(12), 1800-1802.
Mak, W. W. S., Mo, P. K. H., Cheung, R. Y. M., Woo, J., Cheung, F., & Lee, D. (2006). Comparative stigma of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and TB in Hong Kong. Social Science and Medicine, 63(7), 1912-1922. 
Mak, W. W. S., Chen, S. X. (2006). Face concern: Its role on stress-distress relationships among Chinese Americans. Personality and Individual Differences, 41(1), 143-153. 
Mo, P. K. H., Mak, W. W. S., & Kwan, C. S. Y. (2006). Cultural change and Chinese immigrants’ distress and help-seeking in Hong Kong. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 15(3-4), 129-151.
Mak, W. W. S., Chen, S. X., Wong, E. C., & Zane, N. W. S. (2005). A psychosocial model of stress-distress relationship among Chinese Americans. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 24(3), 422-444.
Mak, W. W. S. (2005). Integrative model of caregiving: How macro and micro factors affect caregivers of adults with severe and persistent mental illness. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 75(1), 40-53.
Mak, W. W. S., & Zane, N. W. S. (2004). The phenomenon of somatization among community Chinese Americans. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39(12), 967-974.
Zane, N., & Mak, W. (2003). Major approaches to the measurement of acculturation among ethnic minority populations: A content analysis and an alternative empirical strategy. In K. M. Chun, P. Balls Organista, & G. Marin (Eds.), Acculturation:  Advances in Theory, Measurement, and Applied Research (pp.39-60). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Mak, W., Rosenblatt, A., & Smucker, S. (2003). Challenges in implementing culturally competent services for youth with severe emotional disturbance in California. The Community Psychologist, 36(1), 28-34.
Mak, W., & Rosenblatt, A. (2002). Demographic influences on psychiatric diagnoses among youth served in California systems of care. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 11(2), 165-178.
Hwang, W. C., Chun, C. A., Kurasaki, K. S., Mak, W., & Takeuchi, D. T. (2000). Factor validity of scores on social support and conflict measures among Chinese Americans. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 60(5), 808-816.
Sue, D., Mak, W. S., & Sue, D. W. (1998). Ethnic identity. In L. C. Lee and N. W. S. Zane (Eds.), Handbook of Asian American Psychology (pp. 289-323). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
 
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