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Justine Thong is a Senior Lecturer at the Malaysia Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University. Her research focuses on indigenous psychology, religious studies, and cultural anthropology, with a particular emphasis on Malaysian and Southeast Asian indigenous communities. She investigates themes such as the epistemology of suffering, religious conversion impacts, and mental health within cultural contexts.
Her work contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those addressing health and well-being, quality education, and reducing inequalities. She employs mixed methods and qualitative approaches, often collaborating with researchers in counseling education and cross-cultural psychology.
Recent research highlights include studies on cognitive-emotional differences across religious groups in indigenous tribes, efficacy of contextualized counseling programs, and systematic reviews on causal attribution of suffering. Her publications appear in peer-reviewed journals like Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.
