KOSS-CHIOINO, Joan D. 1935– (Joan Koss)

PERSONAL: Born August 7, 1935, in PA; married David A. Koss (marriage ended); married Craig C. Chioino (a veterinarian and epidemiologist), April 3, 1982; children: (first marriage) Hugh R., Judith C., Rhea J. Education: Temple University, B.F.A., 1955; University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1959, Ph.D., 1965. Hobbies and other interests: Painting, sculpture.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Philadelphia, research assistant, 1957; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, instructor, 1964, lecturer in anthropology, 1964–65, lecturer in nursing, 1965–67; University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, associate professor of anthropology, 1967–69; InterAmerican University, San Juan, Puerto Rico, visiting professor and head of Social Sciences Division, 1971–73; University of Puerto Rico, lecturer in ecological sciences and coordinator of department, 1972–74; University of California, San Francisco, lecturer in psychiatry and postdoctoral fellow in international health, 1974–76; California State University, Hayward, professor of anthropology, 1977–80; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, associate professor, 1980–89, professor of psychiatry, 1989–92; Arizona State University, Tempe, professor of anthropology and women's studies, 1992–. Temple University, lecturer and assistant professor, 1965–66, adjunct assistant professor, 1966–67; University of California, San Francisco, adjunct professor, 1975–87; Tulane University, adjunct professor and visiting professor, 1989–. Government of Puerto Rico, program director and researcher for Department of Health, 1976–79; consultant to Vector Biology Control Medical Service Corp., Center for Disease Control's San Juan Laboratories, and Kaiser Permanente Regional Training Programs.

MEMBER: Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (member of board of directors), American Anthropological Association (fellow), American Ethnological Society, Society for Applied Anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Society for Psychological Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Psychological Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grants and fellowships from National Institute of Mental Health and Rockefeller Foundation (for Ballagio Study and Conference Center).

WRITINGS:

Women as Healers, Women as Patients, Westview (Boulder, CO), 1992.

(Editor, with Luis A. Vargas) Working with Culture: Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Minority Children and Adolescents, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 1992.

(With Luis A. Vargas) Working with Latino Youth: Culture, Development, and Context, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 1999.

(Editor, with Thomas Leatherman and Christine Greenway) Medical Pluralism in the Andes, Routledge (New York, NY), 2002.

Author of the film series "Alternative Paths to Healing," distributed by Biomedical Communications, University of New Mexico, 1980–. Work represented in books, including Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse: Perspectives on Current Research, edited by J. E. Trimble, C. S. Bolek, and S. J. Niemcryk, Haworth, 1994; Psychological Intervention and Treatment of Ethnic Minorities: Concepts, Issues, and Methods, edited by J. F. Aponte, R. R. Rivers, and J. Wohl, Allyn & Bacon, 1994; and Conducting Cross-Cultural Drug Abuse Research, edited by J. E. Trimble, C. S. Bolek, and S. J. Niemcryk, Haworth, 1994. Contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals, until 1987 under the name Joan Koss. Editor of a special issue of Journal of Community Psychology, 1987.

SIDELIGHTS: In the book Working with Latino Youth: Culture, Development, and Context, Joan D. Koss-Chioino and coauthor Luis A. Vargas examine how American psychologists can relate successfully to the growing population of Latino immigrant youth. The authors address such issues as the developmental expectations of this community, the cultural framework in which they live, and the expressions of emotional and mental distress they may exhibit. They argue that Latino youth should be treated primarily within the context of their community and culture. Included are examples of actual cases which illustrate the points being made. A critic for Adolescence believed that the authors "present a dynamic new model for working with Latino youth that considers the individual within the context of family, community, and culture." Andres J. Pumariega, writing in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, found that Working with Latino Youth "belongs on the shelf of every child mental health professional who serves either Latino youth or any culturally diverse population of youth."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Adolescence, winter, 1999, review of Working with Latino Youth: Culture, Development, and Context, p. 807.

Contemporary Psychology, February, 1994, review of Women as Healers, Women as Patients, p. 148.

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, September, 1994, Ruth L. Fuller, review of Working with Culture: Psycho-therapeutic Interventions with Minority Children and Adolescents, p. 1064; April, 2000, Andres J. Pumariega, review of Working with Latino Youth, p. 536.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, December, 2003, review of Medical Pluralism in the Andes, p. 824.

Reviews in Anthropology, Number 1, 1996, review of Women as Healers, Women as Patients, p. 77.

SciTech Book News, December, 1999, review of Working with Latino Youth, p. 80.