Masahiro Minami

Interests

• Mental health services-research in resource challenged contexts
• Implementation science
• Post-war/conflict/genocide psychosocial reconciliation, community care & development
• Japanese Morita therapy
• Integration of Buddhist studies (w specific focus on Pali Canon) with care approaches
• Family therapy, mediation, reunification, and development
• Child and youth in care support
• Refugee mental health services
• Transdiagnostic-transtherapeutic approach to care optimization
• Non-essentialist and inclusive approaches to DEI issues in counselling and psychotherapy

Keywords

mental health service; implementation science; post-war psychosocial reconciliation; japanese morita therapy; family therapy; family reunification; youth in care support; refugee mental health 

Doctoral Supervision

• Bell, Alison (PhD, 2025), Supporting the emotions of gifted children: exploring outcomes and the experience of parents participating in a workshop series

Master's Supervision

• Tombu, Francis J. (MA, 2025), A transdiagnostic approach to psychopathology: examining empirical support for Nolen-Hoeksema and Watkins' logical heuristic in the extant literature
• Bakas, Tania (MA, 2023), More than a perpetrator: Lived experiences of perpetrators of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda who have engaged in action-Based psychosocial reconciliation
• Hung, Jessamyn (MA, 2023), Treading water: Healthcare experiences of racialized queer and trans young adults
• Kind, Caileigh (MA, 2023), Understanding the transitional experiences of young adult refugees in Canada
• Elchehimi, Amanee (MA, 2021), Developing an Islamic framework for psychotherapy: An Islamic conceptualization of psychological wellbeing and healing
• Degenstein, Carly (MA, 2018), Young adults’ accounts of recovery from youth non-suicidal self-injury: An interpretive phenomenological analysis
• Nakamura, Jacqueine (MA, 2018), Young adults' experience of resilience following adversity in adolescence: A hermeneutic phenomenological study
• Rojas, Diana (MA, 2018), Now(here): Exploring the experiences of displacement and relocation of the 1.5 Generation Colombian refugees living in the Lower Mainland through narrative inquiry (Co-supervisor)