Author: Alice Koyun Chi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Asian American youth Languages : en Pages : 268
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Eating disorders, once conceptualized as a White women's disease, have been on the rise affecting both women and men of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Although Asian Americans represent the third largest ethnic minority group in the U.S., little attention has been paid on the development of disordered eating among Asian Americans. Given the central role and cultural meanings behind food and eating in Asian cultures, the use of food as a culturally appropriate, yet ineffective, coping mechanism calls for deeper understanding of cultural influences and variations of eating psychopathology among Asian Americans. The present study performed a secondary data analysis on a nationally representative longitudinal sample of adolescents in the U.S (Add Health). The study examined the moderating effects of ethnicity and acculturation on the relationship between enmeshed family dynamics ( overprotectiveness and conflict avoidance) and characteristics of disordered eating (weight control behaviors, binge eating, past eating disorder diagnosis, and disordered eating behaviors). Among White adolescents, point-biserial correlations showed a weak relationship between overprotectiveness and binge eating. It also showed a weak relationship between conflict avoidance and weight control behaviors and overall disordered eating behaviors among White adolescents. There is no statistical significance in the relationships between enmeshed family dynamics and disordered eating among the Asian American counterparts. Similarly, logistic regression analyses yielded no statistically significant moderating effects of ethnicity and acculturation. The lack of statistically and clinically significant findings is likely due to inadequacies in operationalization of measurement. Future research with improved sample sizes and measurement approaches are needed to replicate the current study and to further explore the relationship between family dynamics and disordered eating among Asian Americans.
Author: Susan Haworth-Hoeppner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131727413X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 257
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This book takes a unique approach to the examination of the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa (and bulimia). White, middle-class, heterosexual women share their insights into the emergence of their illnesses through detailed interviews that consider perceptions of the role of family, the influence of cultural messages regarding thinness and beauty, the agency these women exert in the use of weight control to cope with life’s stressors, the meaning they attach to their eating disorders and how these issues together perpetuate their disease. The book uses a Symbolic Interactionist framework and a grounded theory approach to examine the narratives which emerge from these women’s stories. Themes of family, culture, and self arise in their narratives; these form the theoretical underpinnings for this book, and combine to shape the comprehensive model of eating disorders that emerges from this study. Haworth-Hoeppner’s book will appeal to researchers and advanced students of sociology, women’s studies, family studies, social psychology, and gender studies.
Author: Joyce L C Ma Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press ISBN: 9629964600 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 284
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Over a ten year period, Professor Ma carried out crossdisciplinary research in Hong Kong focused on the effectiveness of structural family therapy for Chinese patients suffering from anorexia nervosa. She found that although the Chinese patients received the same diagnosis as their Western counterparts, their experiences throughout the stages of the disease differed significantly due to interpersonal contexts and subjective cultural factors. The present collection synthesizes this clinical experience into a culturally specific, socially relevant, and clinically useful family treatment model for patients.
Author: Yoonsun Choi Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319631365 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 214
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This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families. Delving beneath longstanding generalizations and assumptions that have often hampered intervention with this diverse and growing population, expert contributors analyze the intricate dynamics of generational conflict and child development in Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and other Asian American households. Wide-angle coverage identifies critical factors shaping Asian American family process, from parenting styles, behaviors, and values to adjustment and autonomy issues across childhood and adolescence, including problems specific to girls and young women. Contributors also make extensive use of quantitative and qualitative findings in addressing the myriad paradoxes surrounding Asian identity, acculturation, and socialization in contemporary America. Among the featured topics: Rising challenges and opportunities of uncertain times for Asian American families. A critical race perspective on an empirical review of Asian American parental racial-ethnic socialization. Socioeconomic status and child/youth outcomes in Asian American families. Daily associations between adolescents’ race-related experiences and family processes. Understanding and addressing parent-adolescent conflict in Asian American families. Behind the disempowering parenting: expanding the framework to understand Asian-American women’s self-harm and suicidality. Asian American Parenting is vital reading for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working family therapy cases who seek specific, practice-oriented case examples and resources for empowering interventions with Asian American parents and families.
Author: Serena Cho Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Despite being one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, Asian Americans are often excluded from clinical trials and public health research. The perpetuation of the "Model Minority" has created bias amongst society, assuming Asian Americans are not vulnerable to economic, social or medical hardships. The Asian American community has consequently internalized this stereotype and endorse this stereotype as a standard towards social mobility. In order to gain social mobility, "thinness" is an additional criteria women must achieve. However, the promotion of unattainable thinness and Eurocentric beauty standards manifests body dissatisfaction, which may push Asian Americans women to engage in disordered eating behavior. Eating disorders and disordered eating has been noted to be comorbid with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and emotional dysregulation. Asian Americans are three times less likely to seek mental health service compared to Whites, highlighting an ignored mental health crisis within the community. Continuance of untreated mental health concerns may attribute to the statistic that suicide was also revealed to be the leading cause of death in Asian American women in the US. The internalization of multifaceted factors such generational status, biculturalism, and familial values may cause disruption in Asian American women's relationship with food, mental health, body, and identity. This systematic literature review explores the relationship between the spectrum of disordered eating behavior and poor mental health in Asian American women.
Author: Martha Craft-Rosenberg Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1452266409 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1145
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Request a FREE 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial What is unique about the process in the discussion of healthcare and interventions to use when working with families? What assessment tools provide guidance for healthcare providers as they determine interventions for families in their care? What are the changing dimensions of contemporary family life, and what impact do those dimensions have on health promotion for families? How is family healthcare changing in terms of practices, delivery systems, costs and insurance coverage? Students are able to explore these questions and more in the Encyclopedia of Family Health. Approximately 350 signed articles written by experts from such varied fields as health and nursing, social and behavioral sciences, and policy provide authoritative, cross-disciplinary coverage. Entries examine theory, research and policy as they relate to family practice in a manner that is accessible and jargon-free. From 'Adolescent Suicide' and 'Alternative Therapies' to 'Visitation during Hospitalization' and 'Weight Problems and Genetics', this work provides coverage of a variety of issues within a family context. The Encyclopedia of Family Health provides a comprehensive summary of theory, research, practice, and policy on family health and wellness promotion for students and researchers.
Author: Ruofan Ma Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic dissertations Languages : en Pages : 61
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The present study aimed to understand how various factors at the individual (satisfaction of basic psychological needs), relational (parenting), and cultural (ethnic identity) levels may contribute to Asian American emerging adults' (18 - 25 years of age) introjected regulation of eating, a regulatory style of eating in which individuals' shame/guilt related to the amount of food they eat or their body weight/shape motivate their regulation of eating. This regulatory style is characteristic of eating disorders. This study examined whether satisfaction of psychological needs mediated the relation between perceived parental psychological control and introjected regulation of eating, and whether Asian American emerging adults' ethnic identity moderated the association between parental control and psychological needs satisfaction. Asian American emerging adults (N = 127) completed a cross-sectional survey study. Psychological needs satisfaction mediated the positive relation between parental psychological control and introjected regulation of eating. Asian American emerging adults with higher ethnic identity had stronger relations between perceived achievement-oriented, but not dependency-oriented, parental psychological control and psychological needs satisfaction. Results of this study highlighted the importance of parenting and ethnic identity in Asian American emerging adults' particularly risk and resilience for disordered eating. These results will help refine current models of eating disorders for Asian Americans and inform the development of culturally-sensitive intervention and prevention programs attending to the needs of Asian American emerging adults.
Author: Stephen T. Russell Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1441957286 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 142
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The relationships between children and their parents are the building blocks for f- ily relationships throughout life. The nature of the parent-child relationship begins with parenting—the practices and strategies that parents engage in as they raise their children. Parenting during childhood sets the stage for parent-adolescent relati- ships. These relationships make a critical difference during the teenage years: we know that when parent-adolescent relationships are healthy and strong, adolescents are more likely to have high aspirations and achievement, and to make healthier choices when it comes to risk-taking. Most of the research in this ?eld has been based in the United States and has been conducted through studies of European American families. Yet a growing body of research suggests important ethnic differences in styles of parenting and the qua- ties characterizing the parent-adolescent relationship. In this area of research, most existing studies have examined ethnic and cultural group differences using widely accepted measures and concepts of parenting. Comparative studies assume that dimensions of parenting such as parental warmth or control have the same meaning across cultures; however, given that conceptualizations of adolescent-parent re- tionships have been developed and tested on samples comprised largely of European Americans, we cannot rule out the possibility that the way we understand parenting has been shaped by the predominantly Western- and U. S. -focused research in this ?eld.
Author: Edward C. Chang Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199938466 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 486
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The Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians represents a historically remarkable global collaboration among leading experts of psychopathology in Asian adults. Chapters provide critical appraisals of existing research and theory as they relate to issues surrounding the diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of major mental disorders among Asians. This volume covers major Axis I disorders as identified by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, adjustment disorders, and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. In addition, the book provides coverage of Axis II personality disorders, including antisocial personality disorder. Complementing these topics are chapters that take a unique look at psychiatric syndromes that have been identified in Asia and at interventions that have been indigenously developed in Asia for treating mental disorders. Additional foundational chapters focus on topics such as the psychology of Asians, assessment and research issues in studying Asians, and future directions for research and policy in studying and treating Asians with mental disorders. With this volume in hand, mental health professionals and researchers around the world now have a single and critical resource that they can use to enhance their efforts in studying and treating Asian adults with mental disorders.
Author: Karen Kurasaki Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9780306472688 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 366
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Asian American Mental Health is a state-of-the-art compendium of the conceptual issues, empirical literature, methodological approaches, and practice guidelines for conducting culturally informed assessments of Asian Americans, and for assessing provider cultural competency within individuals and systems. It is the first of its kind on Asian Americans. This volume draws upon the expertise of many of the leading experts in Asian American and multicultural mental health to provide a much needed resource for students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines including clinical psychology, medical anthropology, psychiatry, cross-cultural psychology, multicultural counseling, ethnic minority psychology, sociology, social work, counselor education, counseling psychology, and more.
Author: Alice Koyun Chi
Author: Susan Haworth-Hoeppner
Author: Joyce L C Ma
Author: Yoonsun Choi
Author: Serena Cho
Author: Martha Craft-Rosenberg
Author: Ruofan Ma
Author: Stephen T. Russell
Author: Edward C. Chang
Author: Karen Kurasaki