Ronald Asiimwe

Dr. A has research and clinical experience practicing in the U.S. and in his home country of Uganda. His research program integrates multicultural perspectives to study how trauma affects parenting, child/youth outcomes, and overall couple and family relationship functioning in underserved communities in the USA and in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also has research interests in measurement and scale development, alongside the development of systemic family therapy in Africa. Dr. Asiimwe is driven to discover culturally responsive systemic interventions to support families in underserved communities, negotiate crises, improve parenting, relationship functioning, and overall mental health. He has pioneered the training of the evidence-based emotionally focused therapy (EFT) in Uganda, East Africa and is currently conducting research to explore the cultural acceptability and applicability of the EFT model in the Ugandan/East African settings.