Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life
Strategies for Clinical Practice with Asian Americans
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Beschreibung
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.
Addresses the unique needs of multi-generational Asian American families Discusses the role of religion in Asian American families Includes cultural narratives Provides research to practice applications Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Karen Mui-Teng Quek
Themen in »Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life«
Asian-American family therapy Asian-American mental health Chinese immigrant families Chinese-Americans and religion Collectivism Faith-based community Faith-based counseling Gender and power Immigrant family therapy Intergenerational connections Korean immigrant families Korean-Americans and religion Relational focus Work-family conflict
Stimmen zu »Transition and Change in Collectivist Family Life«
“Quek and Fang’s edited book … features a collection of qualitative studies conducted by both current researchers and practitioners in Asian American clinical practice. … Readers of this book are most likely practitioners working with Asian Americans searching for practical strategies to engage a population who has notoriously underutilized mental health services. … Quek and Fang’s edited book gives readers a different perspective on working with Asian Americans. … I would highly suggest this book to the targeted audience.” (Alexander Lin Hsieh, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (43), October, 2017)
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