{"title":"Attitudes toward counseling among Asian Indians in the United States.","authors":"Panganamala Nr, Plummer Dl","doi":"10.1037//1099-9809.4.1.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037//1099-9809.4.1.55","url":null,"abstract":"Research suggests that Asian Indian immigrants do not consider counseling as an option for problem resolution. This study examined attitudes toward counseling among 101 Asian Indians and predicted that Asian Indian immigrants would espouse negative attitudes toward counseling and thus dismiss counseling as a coping strategy, whereas second-generation immigrants would have more positive opinions. Perceived prestige, pride, and privacy were factors predicted to positively correlate with negative attitudes. Results from an attitude survey created by the authors suggest that Asian Indians reported more neutral or fairly positive attitudes toward counseling than were expected. Individuals who immigrated before 10 years of age responded with more positive attitudes to counseling than did those who immigrated at a later age.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"4 1","pages":"55-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57273925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming out in primetime: the mental health impact of Ellen's \"debut\".","authors":"Caitlin Conor Ryan, Andrew M. Boxer","doi":"10.1037//1099-9809.4.2.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037//1099-9809.4.2.135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"4 2 1","pages":"134-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57274000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The healing power of culture stories: what writers can teach psychotherapists.","authors":"E R Shapiro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The personal narrative as the shared story of one's life in cultural context is increasingly being viewed by psychotherapists as a useful way to support the work of healing. This article uses the life course narratives of creative writers, especially those who write from outside the margins of the dominant culture, as shared resources for growth. The article focuses on Isabel Allende's book Paula, which tells the story of how the experienced her daughter's death as both a shattering below and a life-expanding opportunity to revisit her lifelong storehouse of relationships and cultural resources. Out of these narratives, she drew new strengths and insights that helped her cope with her loss and create a new relationship with her daughter's spirit. The article suggests how psychotherapists concerned with honoring the complexity of culturally diverse life stories can learn to use personal narratives as resources for healing, for ourselves and with others.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"4 2","pages":"91-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20506714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual aggression among Asian Americans: risk and protective factors.","authors":"G C Hall, A K Windover, G G Maramba","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rates of sexual aggression among Asian Americans are relatively low. It is possible that these low rates are because Asian Americans are less likely than other groups to develop developmental, motivational, and situational risk factors associated with sexual aggression. Moreover, an emphasis in Asian cultures on self-control of sexual and aggressive behavior may serve as a protective factor. Nevertheless, patriarchal aspects of Asian cultures may place some Asian Americans at risk for sexual victimization or perpetration of sexually aggressive behavior. Although Asian Americans may be at less risk for sexual aggression than other groups, interventions that counteract the patriarchal aspects of Asian cultures may further reduce risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"4 4","pages":"305-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20730082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asian Americans and standards of attractiveness: what's in the eye of the beholder?","authors":"T A Mok","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article attempts to address standards of physical attractiveness in the United States and the effects these standards have on Asian Americans. In the U.S., attractiveness appears to be defined overwhelmingly by White criteria, and people of color are often neglected or overlooked. There appears to be convergence from a number of fields (i.e., ethnic studies, film studies, and literature, in addition to experts in the field of ethnic minority mental health) that White standards of attractiveness exert a deleterious effect on Asian Americans. This article will discuss the limited mental health research that does exist in this area and make suggestions for further research in this field. Discussion will center around acculturation and ethnic identity as possible mediating factors that may influence reactions to standards of attractiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20386157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Projective assessment of Latinos in the United States: current realities, problems, and prospects.","authors":"R. Dana","doi":"10.1037//1099-9809.4.3.165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037//1099-9809.4.3.165","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the current status of projective assessment with Latino populations in the United States and suggests improvements in the quality of these services and in assessor cultural competencies. Major issues have included assessor bias, culturally inappropriate service delivery etiquette, psychometric inadequacies of many methods, and ignorance of relevant cultural issues in assessment practice, particularly cultural identity descriptions for personality study and cultural formulations to increase accuracy of clinical diagnoses. A rationale for projective assessment is followed by descriptions of several tests. Suggestions for reduction of bias include guidelines for projective assessment practice and recommendations for resources to improve reliability of interpretations. A research method that combines training with validation of the outcome of the entire assessment process is described.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"4 3 1","pages":"165-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57274050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing the repressed needs of the Arabic client.","authors":"M Dwairy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In comparison to families in Western society, the traditional Arabic family plays a relatively greater role in providing support for adult progeny. This serves to condition adult offspring to continue to comply with the will and values of the family. Therefore, in exchange for familial support, Arabic individuals learn to repress authentic needs and emotions, and within that process they relinquish the need for self-actualization. Arabic society discourages individualism and opposes self-actualization by means of simultaneous punishment and moralization. Thus, there is a relatively greater development of the social value system (or superego) and comparatively less development of the self (or ego). In comparison to Western society, Arabic individuals continue to experience greater oppression during adulthood. Given these cultural differences, the processes of reliving and activating repressed needs and emotions, which ultimately serves to promote self-actualization, will transform intrapsychic conflicts into interpersonal and social ones. Thus, personal actions typically encouraged during Western psychotherapy are likely to produce significant social oppression. Indeed, promoting awareness of repressed needs and emotions often leads the Arabic client to become more helpless, because such wishes will rarely be socially sanctioned or satisfactorily fulfilled. Therefore, when addressing repressed needs and emotions in psychotherapy, ego strength, cultural identity, and degree of strictness of the client's family of origin must be considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20175850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A bio-ecological case study: a Caribbean child.","authors":"S A Gopaul-McNicol, E Armour-Thomas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present article presents how the bio-ecological assessment system is applied in assessing a child's cognitive intelligence beyond a psychometric intelligence test. The recognition that there are many types of intelligence, such as musical and bodily kinesthetic, is exemplified. The case presented is that of a child with deficient cognitive functioning on the psychometric tests, but advanced functioning on the \"Other Intelligence Assessment Measure.\" Diagnostic impressions are given and implications for report writing and interventions are suggested.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"3 2","pages":"145-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20176488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The phenomenology of ritualized and repeated behaviors in nonclinical populations in the United States.","authors":"S. H. Franzblau","doi":"10.1037/1099-9809.3.4.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.3.4.259","url":null,"abstract":"The question of whether ritualized and repeated behaviors might be part of a person's \"normal\" repertoire, providing them with feelings of self-efficacy, is explored in a phenomenological study in which nonclinical subjects who engage in ritualized and repeated behaviors describe their behaviors, and reflect on their feelings before, during, and after engaging in these rituals. Results seem to support the hypothesis that engaging in these behaviors is perceived as reducing feelings of anxiety, fear, and discomfort, and increasing feelings of control and security. Subjects also report that they would feel anxiety and lack of control if confronted with the possibility of interference with rituals. Results contribute to the conceptualization of ritualized and repeated behaviors as coping strategies in an individualized society, which function to alleviate anxiety and promote self-efficacy. It is suggested that this paradigm be used to explore obsessive-compulsive disorder in clinically diagnosed populations of ritualizers, in terms of etiology and for purposes of treatment.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":"3 4 1","pages":"259-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1037/1099-9809.3.4.259","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57513882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}