{"title":"Immigration patterns, social support, and adaptation among Korean immigrant women and Korean American women.","authors":"Y Kim, D Grant","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are little empirical data available on the mental health and social functioning of Korean American Women (both native U.S. born and foreign Korean-born U.S. residents, inclusive). State-of-the-art research used to inform social work practice is exploratory descriptive. With the goal of contributing to the social work knowledge base regarding this understudied population, this article uses an emic understanding and approach to examine immigration patterns, social support networks, and issues around adaptation experienced by Korean American women. Issues examined include gender role disruption, limited use of social services, and evidence of depressive symptoms in Korean American women and subsequent risk of substance abuse, suicide, battering, loss of employment, deficits in parenting, and mental health problems. Focus on these areas of functioning suggests the need for development of culturally competent community, family, individual, and organizational-level intervention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20336384","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}
G P Danko, R H Miyamoto, J E Foster, R C Johnson, N N Andrade, A Yates, J L Edman
{"title":"Psychiatric symptoms in offspring of within vs. across racial/ethnic marriages.","authors":"G P Danko, R H Miyamoto, J E Foster, R C Johnson, N N Andrade, A Yates, J L Edman","doi":"10.1037/1099-9809.3.4.273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.3.4.273","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A large number of adolescents of interracial ancestry (parents comprising various combinations of African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, European-American, Chinese, Filipino, Hispanic, Japanese, Korean, Puerto Rican, Samoan, and Tongan ancestry) were contrasted with a monoracial European-American sample in the degree to which they reported symptoms of depression, anxiety, conduct disorder/aggression, and substance abuse. The adolescents of interracial ancestry were subdivided into three groups in terms of parental ancestry: both parents of interracial ancestry, one parent of interracial and the other of monoracial ancestry, and both parents of monoracial but different ancestries. The interracial ancestry groups did not differ significantly from one another or from the European American sample in terms of symptom scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20338215","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":"Constructing common ground: borderland experiences in America.","authors":"D. Wellman","doi":"10.1037//1099-9809.3.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037//1099-9809.3.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"Distinguishing among there different versions of diversity, the author provides an autobiographical account of a situation in which racial differences were treated as mutually enhancing resources. Drawing on additional historical and contemporary examples, he suggests that American social \"borderlands\" are sites that encourage and facilitate the flowering of inclusive, multidimensional identifies.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57273486","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":"Intergroup similarities in judgements of psychiatric symptom severity.","authors":"R C Johnson, G P Danko, N N Andrade, R A Markoff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers have stated that racial/ethnic groups, even if residing in the same locale, differ substantially in their judgments of the severity of psychiatric symptoms. Severity was defined as the degree to which a symptom would lead to the belief that the person manifesting the symptom had some form of mental disturbance or psychological problem needing treatment. Research participants residing in Hawaii's, varying in sex, age, educational level, and ethnicity, rated the severity of 49 psychiatric symptoms. All groups were in close agreement with one another in their severity ratings, suggesting that group differences in beliefs may be far less than had been claimed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20175855","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":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20336386","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}
F M Baker, A Bondurant, C Pinderhughes, R Fuller, S Kelley, S P Kim, E Triffleman, J Spurlock
{"title":"Survey of the cross-cultural content of U.S. psychiatry residency training programs.","authors":"F M Baker, A Bondurant, C Pinderhughes, R Fuller, S Kelley, S P Kim, E Triffleman, J Spurlock","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To establish the extent of cross-cultural content contained in the 224 psychiatric residency training programs, the Directors of Residency Training were surveyed by mail. Thirty-seven percent (N = 83) of Directors responded; 92% (N = 76) had cross-cultural content, 99% (N = 82) had opportunities to work with minority patients, and 77% (N = 64) had supervision by some minority faculty. Responding programs reported a need for teaching videotapes (85%, N = 71), cross-cultural references (78%, N = 65), academic psychiatrists familiar with different cultural groups (76%, N = 63), and cross-cultural supervision (75%, N = 62).</p>","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20218885","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":"Understanding cross-cultural prognostic variability for schizophrenia.","authors":"Amy G. Weisman","doi":"10.1037/1099-9809.3.1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.3.1.23","url":null,"abstract":"Research suggests that critical and negatively charged family environments correlate with poor prognosis for schizophrenia across cultures. International research also suggests that the increasing industrial status of a country is associated with a less favorable outcome for the disorder. This article reviews the literature on culture and schizophrenia. An argument is made for using an attribution-affect model to help identify factors that may lead to unfavorable emotional reactions toward individuals with schizophrenia. In addition, specific sociocultural values and beliefs are proposed that are hypothesized to contribute to a favorable clinical course for schizophrenia in less industrialized countries.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1037/1099-9809.3.1.23","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57513794","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. Gopaul-McNicol, E. Armour-Thomas","doi":"10.1037/1099-9809.3.2.145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.3.2.145","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1037/1099-9809.3.2.145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57513827","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":"10.1037//1099-9809.3.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037//1099-9809.3.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57273473","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":"Intergroup similarities in judgements of psychiatric symptom severity.","authors":"R. Johnson, G. Danko, N. Andrade, R. Markoff","doi":"10.1037//1099-9809.3.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037//1099-9809.3.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have stated that racial/ethnic groups, even if residing in the same locale, differ substantially in their judgments of the severity of psychiatric symptoms. Severity was defined as the degree to which a symptom would lead to the belief that the person manifesting the symptom had some form of mental disturbance or psychological problem needing treatment. Research participants residing in Hawaii's, varying in sex, age, educational level, and ethnicity, rated the severity of 49 psychiatric symptoms. All groups were in close agreement with one another in their severity ratings, suggesting that group differences in beliefs may be far less than had been claimed.","PeriodicalId":79483,"journal":{"name":"Cultural diversity and mental health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57273544","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}