Andrew G. Ryder

Andrew Ryder is Professor and Chair, Concordia’s Department of Psychology and a core member of the Concordia’s Centre for Clinical Research in Health at Concordia University. He has dual training in clinical psychology and cultural psychology, along with extensive experience in the interdisciplinary field of transcultural psychiatry. His scholarly work integrates these disciplines through empirical contributions in three broad and interrelated areas. First, he studies the cultural shaping of emotions and emotional disorders, with a particular focus on East Asian societies, including China, Korea, and Japan. Second, he examines the acculturation process and its implications for mental health among migrants to Montreal, with an emphasis on developing improved assessment tools to measure key aspects of acculturation. Third, he investigates best practices for evidence-based psychological interventions that are both transcultural and transdiagnostic. These three themes are connected by the subfield of Cultural-Clinical Psychology, which he is helping to develop and promote through collaborative conceptual work.