Ep. 46 - The Modern Asian Parent with Dr. Michelle Chung and Dr. Laura Berssenbrugge

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of parenting on maternal mental health and the importance of breaking generational cycles, particularly among AAPI parents.

Maternal mental health goes beyond just the immediate postpartum period and that we know that as we learn to parent, our mental health is also affected by the way we parent. We love talking about breaking generational cycles in parenting because we think, especially as AAPI parents, that is one of the keys to achieving better mental health in the long run. So for today's episode, we talked with the two clinical psychologist co-founders of Modern Asian Parent, Dr. Michelle Chung and Dr. Laura ...

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Michelle Chung, Dr. Laura Berssenbrugge

Topics covered

• maternal mental health
• parenting
• AAPI parents
• generational cycles
• mental health

Keywords

• maternal mental health
• parenting
• AAPI
• generational cycles
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Modern Asian Parent

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