[1] He has authored several books, including Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Overcoming our Racism, and Understanding Abnormal Behavior.

[3] He remembers "being teased due to his ethnicity" during his early childhood [4] For Sue, the discrimination and prejudice made him feel like an outcast and he would often turn to his brothers for support to get through those harsh times.

[7] Derald Wing Sue was majoring in biology at Oregon State University when he took a psychology class and became fascinated by what he had learned.

[3] In 1965 Sue was exposed to humanistic teachings by Leona Elizabeth Tyler, the past president of the American Psychological Association.

Sue found the academic presence to be valid but that the curriculum was invalid because race and culture were rarely discussed other than in superficial or intellectual way.

During his time at Berkeley, he conducted mental health studies on Asian Americans, which then led him to coauthor two books: A Theory of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy and Understanding Abnormal Behavior.

In addition to being a professor of psychology at Teachers College, he served on Bill Clinton's President's advisory board on Race in 1996.