Asian Families in Canada and the United States, 1st ed. 2021 Implications for Mental Health and Well-Being Advances in Immigrant Family Research Series
This book presents a comprehensive overview of Asian families residing in Canada and the United States by portraying and analyzing Asian Canadian and Asian American immigrant families in an integrated yet nuanced way. Chapters use an interdisciplinary approach to provide more comprehensive coverage of the vast diversity as well as common trends and shared characteristics of Asian families. Specifically, the volume examines the experiences of families whose ancestry can be traced to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Integrated overview of Asian American and Asian Canadian families, including an exploration of the historical and current immigration policies.
- Experiences of families of East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, and West Asian ancestry across Canada and the United States.
- Asian religious traditions and worldviews, traditional practices, and religio-cultural views on gender, sexuality, and family.
- Specific Asian immigrant groups on immigration demographics, family dynamics and relationships, gendered roles, parenting practices and beliefs, and implications for mental health.
- Challenges and issues that families face as Asians and immigrants, the strength and resilience of families, with extensive reviews on various intervention and prevention programs.
- Methodological strategies in investigating Asian families and their impact on the field.
Asian Families in Canada and the United States is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, parenting and family studies, social work, and all interrelated disciplines.
Chapter 1: The Complexities of Asian Families from Around the World: Creating New Lives in
Canada and the United States
Susan S. Chuang & Uwe P. Gielen
Part A: History, Religion, and Culture
Chapter 2: Comparing and Contrasting Asian Families in Canada and the United States Uwe P. Gielen, Susan S. Chuang, Roy Moodley, Spencer B. Talbot
Chapter 3: Asian Families: Religion, Spirituality, and Worldviews
Tracy S. Tiemeier
Part B: Specific Countries and Regions of Origin
East Asia
Chapter 4: Chinese Families from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Susan S. Chuang, Xuan Li, & Ching-Yu Huang
Chapter 5: Growing up in Two Worlds: Young Chinese Americans in New York City
Uwe P. Gielen & Jonathan Palumbo
Chapter 6: Japanese Families
Bobbie Kabuto
Chapter 7: Korean Families
Jessica J. Jeong & Ann H. Kim
South Asia
Chapter 8: Bangladeshi Families
Abdul Khaleque
Chapter 9: Indian Families
Uma A. Segal
Chapter 10: Pakistani Families
Ahmed Afzal
West Asia
Chapter 11: Arab Families from the Levant
Julie Hakim-Larson & Shawna A. Scott
Part C: Counseling and Therapy for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Chapter 12: Asian-Origin Families in Canada and the United States: Challenges and Resilience
Kieu Anh Do, Yan Ruth Xia, & Xiaolin Xie
Chapter 13: Providing Therapy with Asian Immigrant Families: A Review of Prominent Issues
and Treatment Considerations
Daniel Kaplin, Denise Farrelly, Kristen Parente, & Florette Cohen
Part D: Methodology Considerations
Chapter 14: Critically Assessing the Methodological Challenges of Exploring Chinese
Immigrant Fathers
Susan S. Chuang, Xuan Li, Ching-Yu Huang, & Yang Hu
Susan S. Chuang, Ph.D. (University of Rochester), is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research focuses on fathering, parenting, parent-child relationships of young children among immigrant and ethnic families in various sociocultural contexts (Asian: Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan; Latino/a: Paraguay, US; Black: Jamaica). Her second line of research examines families and immigration, collaborating with various national organizations in Canada. She conducts numerous volunteer workshops for the local communities that focus on various topics (e.g., parenting, education, child/youth development, employment). She has organized six international conferences on immigrant families.
Roy Moodley, Ph.D. (University of Sheffield), is an Associate Professor in clinical and counseling psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Moodley is also the Director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy. His research interests include critical multicultural counseling and psychotherapy, race and culture in psychoanalysis, global south psychologies; traditional healing and mix-race relations.
Uwe P. Gielen, Ph.D. (Harvard University), is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College, New York City, USA. His work focuses on cross-cultural and international psychology, Chinese American immigrant adolescents and young adults, international family psychology, and moral development. His more than 190 publications include 30 edited, co-edited, and co-authored volumes and nine special journal issues. He has lectured in 34 countries and has served as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, the International Council of Psychologists, and the International Psychology Division (52) of the American Psychological Association.
Saadia Akram, Ed.D. (University of Toronto), is a registered ps
Presents an integrated overview of Asian Canadian and Asian American immigrant families in the United States and Canada
Focuses on immigrant families of East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, and West Asian ancestry in North America
Uses an interdisciplinary approach to gain greater insights into the vast diversity of Asian immigrant families
Identifies common trends and shared characteristics of Asian immigrant families
Date de parution : 03-2021
Ouvrage de 295 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
