Author: Pa Der VangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Southeast Asian Mental Health from the Perspective of the Bicultural Provider
Author: Pa Der VangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Southeast Asian Mental Health
Author: Cultural Considerations in Asian and Pacific Islander American Mental Health
Author: Harvette GreyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190243392
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
In America's increasingly diverse society, it is imperative that mental health providers prioritize the development of their cultural competence to assure that they are equipped to meet the needs of their clients. Cultural Considerations in Asian and Pacific Islander American Mental Health offers a broad array of perspectives from clinicians and researchers actively working with racially/ethnically diverse populations. This book addresses psychosocial cultural issues that impact the mental health of the growing Asian American population. The book opens with the concept of what and who is an Asian American, as well as the myriad distinctions and differences among various Asian groups. Covered chapter topics include a historical overview of the diverse populations among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans; a discussion of the tensions and similarities between empirically supported treatments and cultural competence; Asian and Pacific Islander American elders and depression; and a psychodynamic perspective regarding the treatment of dual diagnosis with an Asian American client. This book is a must-read for mental health clinicians, students, community workers, school counselors, and nurses who work with diverse populations.
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Harry MinasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1489979999
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This far-reaching volume analyzes the social, cultural, political, and economic factors contributing to mental health issues and shaping treatment options in the Asian and Pacific world. Multiple lenses examine complex experiences and needs in this vast region, identifying not only cultural issues at the individual and collective levels, but also the impacts of colonial history, effects of war and disasters, and the current climate of globalization on mental illness and its care. These concerns are located in the larger context of physical health and its determinants, worldwide goals such as reducing global poverty, and the evolving mental health response to meet rising challenges affecting the diverse populations of the region. Chapters focus on countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia plus Oceania and Australia, describing: · National history of psychiatry and its acceptance. · Present-day mental health practice and services. · Mental/physical health impact of recent social change. · Disparities in accessibility, service delivery, and quality of care. · Collaborations with indigenous and community approaches to healing. · Current mental health resources, the state of policy, and areas for intervention. A welcome addition to the global health literature, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific brings historical depth and present-day insight to practitioners providing services in this diverse area of the world as well as researchers and policymakers studying the region.
Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life
Author: Karen Mui-Teng QuekPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331950679X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
This research-to-practice volume grounds clinicians in a robust, culturally-informed framework for conducting effective therapy with Asian-American couples, families, and individuals. Family, cultural, social, and spiritual dynamics are explored across ethnicities, generations, relationships, and immigrant/citizen experience to reflect a diverse, growing population. Discussion and case examples focus on contrasts, conflicts, and balances involved in acculturation and change, notably the shift from collectivist cultural tradition to a more independent view of the self, gender, choices, and relationships. The contributors’ finely shaded guidance and accessible approach will help therapists provide appropriate services for Asian-American clients without minimizing or pathologizing their experiences. Included in the coverage: How Asian American couples negotiate relational harmony: collectivism and gender equality. Through religion: working-class Korean immigrant women negotiate patriarchy. The role of Chinese grandparents in their adult children’s parenting practices in the United States. Balancing the old and the new: the case of second generation Filipino American women. Bicultural identity as a protective factor among Southeast Asian American youth who have witnessed domestic violence. Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life is a cogent clinical resource for practitioners and mental health professionals with interests in Asian-American family therapy, psychotherapy, collectivism, and faith-based community and counseling.
Asian American Mental Health
Author: Karen KurasakiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306472688
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
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.
Traversing Cultural Identities
Author: Shadab Fatima HussainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The purposes of this dissertation were to better understand how South Asian American college students conceptualize biculturalism, how bicultural competence relates to coping and mental health outcomes, and how the campus environment can support bicultural competence through the testing of the Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) model. South Asians make up one-third of the Asian American population, though many studies within the fields of psychology and education on Asian Americans focus primarily on East Asians or fail to disaggregate the Asian category, lacking a nuanced understanding of the experience of Asian Americans. Additionally, South Asians face unique risk factors caused by the current, hostile political climate in the United States against Muslims and immigrants, and by the propagation of harmful stereotypes. Thus, this study aimed to bring the experiences of South Asian American students to the forefront and better understand how to support these students' identity development through the theoretical lens of biculturalism theory and the CECE model. Students from three different university settings were recruited to participate in a survey assessing mental health outcomes, coping styles, and thoughts about their college environment. Site 1 was a medium-sized, private university, Site 2 was a large, public university, and Site 3 was a medium-sized community college. The survey was completed by 196 students across the three sites, and 25 students (who filled out the survey from Site 1) participated in a 30 to 35-minute interview discussing their bicultural identity including how the college environment supported their bicultural identity development. Study analyses yielded significant results in three major different areas: (a) conceptualization of biculturalism, (b) biculturalism and mental health, and (c) environmental support for bicultural identity development. In regards to the first area, two theoretical contributions were noted through qualitative analyses of student interviews through a combination of inductive and deductive coding. First, the conceptualization of biculturalism by South Asian American students spanned six different components rather than one singular definition as commonly conceptualized in previous literature. These six components were (a) active participation in cultural traditions, (b) internalization of cultural values, (c) interpersonal factors, (d) flux and connection with cultural background, (e) relations between cultural identities, and (f) comfort and pride. Second, three potential external factors that contribute to bicultural competence were identified -- exposure to cultural settings, parents' bicultural competence and physical appearance. Additionally, analyses revealed that a potential outcome of demonstrating high bicultural competence was self-awareness or a more developed bicultural identity. In the second area, quantitative analyses revealed significant relations between bicultural competence, mental health, and coping. More specifically, bicultural competence was significantly related to positive mental health outcomes. Those who had high bicultural competence were more likely to report utilizing the reflective, acceptance/reframing/striving and family support coping styles, and were less likely to report utilizing reactive coping than those with low bicultural competence. Additionally, there was an interaction occurring between bicultural competence, family support coping, and psychological well-being, such that those who had low bicultural competence benefitted the most from using extensive family support coping. Finally, in the area of institutional support for bicultural identity development, quantitative analyses demonstrated how the campus environment can support bicultural competence through the testing of the CECE model. A structural equation model including bicultural competence as a mediator in the CECE model demonstrated good fit for the data. This significant fit suggests that the CECE indicators contributed to bicultural competence, and that bicultural competence partially mediated the relation between the CECE indicators and outcome variables -- sense of school belongingness and academic self-efficacy. Interviews also revealed which indicators of the CECE model were currently utilized by the university and best supported students' bicultural identity development. These indicators were culturally relevant knowledge, meaningful cross-cultural engagement, cultural familiarity, and cultural validation. Altogether, these findings contribute to current theory and research on biculturalism, demonstrate the positive benefits of bicultural competence on mental health, and highlight how aspects of the campus environment can support students' bicultural identity development. Results support and add to biculturalism theory through identification of factors that can contribute to and result from bicultural competence. Additionally, six different categories that compose biculturalism were found, contributing to the current literature on biculturalism. Explicit relations between bicultural competence, coping styles, and mental health were revealed. Through testing the CECE model, potential areas for intervention in campus environments were identified to support South Asian American students' bicultural identity development.
Diversity in Diaspora
Author: Mark Edward PfeiferPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824835972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This anthology wrestles with Hmong Americans’ inclusion into and contributions to Asian American studies, as well as to American history and culture and refugee, immigrant, and diasporic trajectories. It negotiates both Hmong American political and cultural citizenship, meticulously rewriting the established view of the Hmong as “new” Asian neighbors—an approach articulated, Hollywood style, in Clint Eastwood’s film Gran Torino. The collection boldly moves Hmong American studies away from its usual groove of refugee recapitulation that entrenches Hmong Americans points-of-origin and acculturation studies rather than propelling the field into other exciting academic avenues. Following a summary of more than three decades’ of Hmong American experience and a demographic overview, chapters investigate the causes of and solutions to socioeconomic immobility in the Hmong American community and political and civic activism, including Hmong American electoral participation and its affects on policymaking. The influence of Hmong culture on young men is examined, followed by profiles of female Hmong leaders who discuss the challenges they face and interviews with aging Hmong Americans. A section on arts and literature looks at the continuing relevance of oral tradition to Hmong Americans’ successful navigation in the diaspora, similarities between rap and kwv txhiaj (unrehearsed, sung poetry), and Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir, The Latehomecomer. The final chapter addresses the lay of the land in Hmong American studies, constituting a comprehensive literature review. Diversity in Diaspora showcases the desire to shape new contours of Hmong American studies as Hmong American scholars themselves address new issues. It represents an essential step in carving out space for Hmong Americans as primary actors in their own right and in placing Hmong American studies within the purview of Asian American studies.
Mental Health Issues
Author: Barbara J. SilverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Nationality listing of 79 entries to books and journal articles. Intended to help develop appropriate mental health services for Southeast Asian refugees in America. Includes Cambodians, Laotians and Hmongs, Vietnamese, and Indochinese. Useful primarily to mental health professionals. Each entry gives bibliographical information, population, audience, and annotation. Index by audience and population.
Moderators of Bicultural Self-efficacy and Mental Health Among Asian Americans
Author: Dhara ShahPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The relationship between acculturation and mental health among Asian Americans has been established. For example, the integration strategy, often associated with bicultural competence, has been shown to positively predict well-being and self-esteem, and negatively predict various indicators of distress (Nguyen, Messe, & Stollak, 1999; Oh, Koeske, & Sales, 2002; Yoon, Lee, & Goh, 2008). Further, biculturalism (Chen, Benet-Martinez, & Bond, 2008) and bicultural self-efficacy (David, Okazaki, & Saw, 2009) have been associated with positive mental health outcomes among Asian Americans. That is, perceiving oneself as capable of navigating various domains (e.g., values, behaviors) within two cultures is associated with better mental health. Little is known, however, regarding the factors that may influence the strength of this relationship. Thus, the present study aimed to identify some moderating factors of the relationship between bicultural self-efficacy and mental health among Asian Americans. Considering previous research examining the factors associated with acculturation and mental health (Berry, 1980; Nguyen & Benet-Martinez, 2007; Padilla, 2006), it was hypothesized that bicultural identity integration, cognitive flexibility, psychological flexibility, and resilience would each moderate the relationship between bicultural self-efficacy and satisfaction with life, and between bicultural self-efficacy and psychological distress. Results indicated that bicultural identity integration approached significance, indicating that of all the hypotheses presented in this study, it may be the only moderator of the relationship between bicultural self-efficacy and life satisfaction. Thus, viewing two cultures as compatible may act as a protective factor, or buffer, against the negative effects of low bicultural self-efficacy on some aspects of mental health. Further, the null findings suggest that the relationships between the measured variables may be more complex than simple moderation. It is recommended that future research continue to explore and test moderation and mediation models, while considering alternative measures and specific subscales. Recommended service implications for Asian Americans include interventions geared to increase one's level of bicultural identity integration or bicultural selfefficacy, as well as to encourage systems or communities to provide the appropriate resources needed to do so.