An active professional member of the American Counselling Association, Mark Chae, Ph.D. served as an associate professor of psychiatric rehabilitation and counseling at Rutgers University for two years. Mark Chae, Ph.D. has over two decades of experience in counseling psychology and has written more than 25 peer-reviewed publications, including "Relationship of Ethnic Identity and Spiritual Development: An Exploratory Study."
Ethnic identity refers to the way members of an ethnic group recognize and communicate with each other as a subdivision of their dominant culture. Literature published by Rotheram and Phinney in 1987 described ethnic identity as a sense of belonging to one's ethnic group, as well as the development of perception, behaviors, feeling, and thinking that are typically associated with the group. Subsequently, in 1996, Phinney expanded the ethnic identity development process into a three-stage model. In an orderly manner, these stages are unexamined ethnic identity, moratorium or search status, and achieved ethnic identity. At the unexamined ethnic identity stage, an individual perceives their ethnicity as unimportant and rather accepts the beliefs and values of their immediate environment. When an individual begins to develop a deeper interest in their ethnic group and cultural values, they are in moratorium search status. During this stage, they begin to embrace the practices and behaviors of their ethnic group. When ethnic identity is finally achieved (the last stage), the individual develops pride in their ethnic heritage and demonstrates this toward other members of their group.
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AuthorA former researcher with the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Mark Chae, PhD, has pursued a number of corporate research projects over the past decade. Archives
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