[KS] The 79th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum (Hyuk-Rae Kim, GSIS, Yonsei University)

김혁래 hyukrae at yonsei.ac.kr
Sun Apr 6 09:15:39 EDT 2008


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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 79th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, April 15th at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Sheena Nahm, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. The title of her talk is “Psychotherapy and Health Infrastructure in Korea: Between Public and Private Domains.” The abstract of her paper and a brief bio can be found at the end of this email.  
 The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, jennifer.bresnahan at gmail.com for further inquiries.  
 
Sincerely,  
Hyuk-Rae Kim
Professor of Korean StudiesDirector, Institute for Modern Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 



    
        
            
            Abstract:
            This article situates the growing number of psychotherapeutic services for children and adolescents in Seoul within a broader historical analysis of mental health and health insurance in the
            
            
            Republic of
            
            Korea . Major shifts have occurred in infrastructure, discourse, and availability of services. Policy review and semi-structured interviews with therapists suggest that psychotherapy is becoming more popular in mainstream society, but due to restrictions in health care coverage and structural limitations, access to services largely depend on out-of-pocket expenses that may stratify access according to socioeconomic class. Psychotherapy, particularly forms such as play therapy, art therapy, and music therapy, provides an attractive alternative for counseling youth by addressing issues in psychological health while diminishing stigma associated with more clinical psychiatric settings. However, therapists also strain to achieve legitimacy outside of the mainstream health care setting and sustain their practices in a health care sector that has historically been a hybrid of private and public domains. 
            
             
            
        
    


 

Biography: 
Sheena Nahm graduated from the


University of

Pennsylvania in 2001, where she received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Biological Basis of Behavior (biopsychology/neuroscience) and Anthropology (cultural). Since then, she has also received her Masters in Public Health from


Drexel

University , with an emphasis in Community Health and Prevention (2002-2004). During that time, she was involved in several research projects ranging from health issues among refugees and asylum seekers to food insecurity among urban African American women. Her master's thesis evaluated the effectiveness of hepatitis B multi-media education among Asian immigrant youth in 

Philadelphia . She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the

University of

California ,

Irvine (2004-present). In the summer of 2005, she conducted preliminary field research in New York and Los Angeles, working with the headquarters of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders), an international human rights organization that provides emergency medical relief in nearly 70 countries. For her preliminary fieldwork in 2005 and 2006, she received UCI grants, funded by the Regents of the

University of

California and the State of 

California . Her current research interests relate to the adaptation of medical programs from the to parts of East Asia; in particular, she is focusing on the implementation of play therapy programs in for children diagnosed with psychological disorders. In addition to issues of transnational knowledge production and regulation of medical program protocols across borders, she is interested in how the adaptation of a play therapy program affects local caretakers' and practitioners' perceptions of nature-culture, normal-abnormal, and work-play with respect to the malleability of social behavior. She advanced to candidacy for her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2007. She is currently in 

Seoul conducting dissertation field research with the support of the Korea Foundation.
 

 
 
 


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