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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.
Understanding the rates and distribution of mental disorders / Doris F. Chang -- Examining the usefulness of DSM-IV / Richard H. Dana -- Toward a new paradigm : a cultural systems approach / Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Rita Chi-Ying Chung -- Challenging the myth of a culture free nosological system / Keh-Ming Lin, Margaret Lin -- Assessing acculturation and cultural variables / Gargi Roysircar, Michael Lynch Maestas -- Models of cultural orientation : differences between American-born and overseas-born Asians / Jeanne L. Tsai, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton -- Cultural variations in self-construal as a mediator of distress and well-being / Sumie Okazaki -- The use of culturally-based variables in assessment : studies on loss of face / Nolan Zane, May Yeh -- Universal and indigenous dimensions of Chinese personality / Fanny M. Cheung -- Interpreting cultural variations in cognitive profiles / Lisa A. Suzuki, Tamiko Mogami, Ellen S. Kim -- The conception of depression in Chinese Americans / Yu-Wen Ying -- Assessing Asian and Asian American parenting : a review of the literature / Su YeongKim, Vivian Y. Wong -- Assessing psychiatric prevalence rates among Asian Americans / Karen S. Kurasaki, Alan K. Koike -- The place of ethnographic understanding in the assessment of Asian American mental health / Edwina S. Uehara, Nancy Farwell, Greg Yamashiro, Michael Smukler -- The clinical assessment of Asian American children / May Yeh, Joyce Wu Yeh -- Examining the role of culture in educational assessment / Jonathan Sandoval -- A cultural accommodation approach to career assessment with Asian Americans / Frederick T.L. Leong, Mei Tang -- Theory and method of multicultural counseling competency Assessment / Richard M. Lee, Adam J. Darnell -- Assessment of cultural competence in mental health systems of care for Asian Americans / Jean Lau Chin -- Advances in the scientific study of Asian Americans / Stanley Sue.
edited by Karen S. Kurasaki, Sumie Okazaki, Stanley Sue.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, ©2002
International and cultural psychology series