Pamela A. Hays

Pamela Hays holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii, a B.A. in psychology from New Mexico State University, and a certificate in French from La Sorbonne in Paris, France. From 1987 through 1988, she served as an NIMH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. From 1989 through 2000, she worked as core faculty member of the graduate psychology program at Antioch University Seattle. Since 2000, she has worked in community mental health and private practice in rural Alaska, including part-time as a supervisor for the Kenaitze Tribe. Her research has included work with Tunisian women in North Africa, and Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian people in the U.S. She is coeditor of the book Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Assessment, Practice, and Supervision; author of Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy (APA Books; and author of Connecting across Cultures: The Helper's Toolkit (Sage). She provides consultation and teaches workshops internationally, and lives with her family on the Kenai Peninsula where the nearest town of Soldotna has a population of 4,000 people and several thousand moose. For more information on her clinical practice, publications, and workshops, go to www.drpamelahays.com.