Asian Mental Health
It is estimated that 2.9 million Asians in America deal with mental health conditions, yet Asian Americans are 3 times less likely to seek help vs. White Americans due to various barriers. When Asian Americans do receive help, they have a high recovery rate.
For Asian women, mental health is even more acute as we juggle multiple roles in our lives. And we are becoming more concerned about the mental health of our Asian American youth.
At MyAsianVoice, we are making it easier to understand and access information with Dr. Annie S. Li*.
Dr. Annie has devoted her career focusing on the needs of Asian American mental health. She is the co-founder and co-chair of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Asian Caucus and a board-certified expert on Asian American youth mental health educating our government and the public.
*There is no financial relationship between MyAsianVoice and its experts.
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About Dr. Annie
Dr. Annie S Li, MD is a board certified General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She is Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the Director of the Children’s Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City and a board member on the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Li has devoted her career focusing on the needs of Asian American mental health. As a Chinese American immigrant, Dr. Li promotes the awareness of the field’s structural disparities and lack of AAPI mental health clinicians. She co-founded and co-chaired the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Asian Caucus.
Dr. Li is an expert on Asian American youth mental health educating our government and the public. She has extensive experience providing psychiatric care to youths and families in the acute crisis settings, with focus on mood disorders, anxiety, stress/trauma related disorders including complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Outside of her role as a psychiatrist, Dr. Li also navigates the adventures of motherhood with two young children and is an avid traveler/culinary explorer.