Adolescent Medicine & Child Psychology

Biography

Maree Sugai is a full time senior lecturer, faculty member and researcher at Tohoku University of Community Service and Science (KU) in Japan. She has been teaching in Japan for over twenty years and has published and presented at social science, psychology and behavioral science conferences in America, Canada, and Japan. Her thesis was in intercultural communication and her current research area is in acute social withdrawal/hikikomori. She has worked on the governing board of a mental health rehabilitation center in Japan for fourteen years; assisting in counseling for, and including, families who have lost members to suicide and for those who have suffered severe trauma, or are severely depressed or psychotic. Her academic training is in socio-linguistics and medical anthropology.

Abstract

Abstract : Hidden people: Hidden lives