Want to help children, adolescents, or athletes overcome mental hurdles? Choose the Counseling Master’s in Education (EdM) program. This degree has three concentrations: child & adolescent mental health counseling, school counseling, or sport psychology.
Bobby Hiep Bui is senior lecturer and program director for the EdM in Counseling. Bui has 15+ years of experience teaching and practicing psychology in a variety of academic and clinical settings with diverse populations. He worked with Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a nonprofit organization in New York that helps incarcerated people work toward a bachelor’s degree and supports people reentering society from prison. Through Hudson Link, Bui taught classes in introductory psychology, abnormal psychology, and personality at a men’s maximum-security prison.
“These men . . . were the hardest-working students I’ve ever had.” According to Bui and Hudson Link, around two-thirds of formerly incarcerated people “return to prison within three years of their initial release date.” But for Hudson Link graduates, it’s less than 2%. “We’re not just building a better community inside the facility, but we’re changing the lives of people and their families outside,” Bui says.
Karen Lo (’13) is a sport psychologist, author, and university lecturer who has supported athletes in their personal development all over Asia. She was the first Certified Mental Performance Consultant of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, striving to bring ethical sport psychology practices to Hong Kong and other Asian countries.