Dr Tam Cai Lian is the Associate Professor of the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. She is a counselling psychologist, a registered counsellor from the Board of Counsellors Malaysia and panel counsellor for the Board of Council Malaysia. Dr Tam has a special interest in the variety of challenges facing adolescents in modern Malaysia. She has a particular emphasis on the special areas which include contributory factors of drug abuse and the effects of counselling on mental health and wellbeing among the multi-ethnic groups. Currently, Dr Tam is the coordinator for Master of Professional Counselling (MoPC), Monash University Malaysia and the unit coordinator for Children and Adolescents Counselling, Counselling Skills: Individuals and Couple for the MoPC program.