Download or read book Understanding Acculturation and Adjustment Among Vietnamese Refugee Adolescents Across Life Domains written by Shanika L. Blanton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Growing Up American written by Min Zhou and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnamese Americans form a unique segment of the new U.S. immigrant population. Uprooted from their homeland and often thrust into poor urban neighborhoods, these newcomers have nevertheless managed to establish strong communities in a short space of time. Most remarkably, their children often perform at high academic levels despite difficult circumstances. Growing Up American tells the story of Vietnamese children and sheds light on how they are negotiating the difficult passage into American society. Min Zhou and Carl Bankston draw on research and insights from many sources, including the U.S. census, survey data, and their own observations and in-depth interviews. Focusing on the Versailles Village enclave in New Orleans, one of many newly established Vietnamese communities in the United States, the authors examine the complex skein of family, community, and school influences that shape these children's lives. With no ties to existing ethnic communities, Vietnamese refugees had little control over where they were settled and no economic or social networks to plug into. Growing Up American describes the process of building communities that were not simply transplants but distinctive outgrowths of the environment in which the Vietnamese found themselves. Family and social organizations re-formed in new ways, blending economic necessity with cultural tradition. These reconstructed communities create a particular form of social capital that helps disadvantaged families overcome the problems associated with poverty and ghettoization. Outside these enclaves, Vietnamese children faced a daunting school experience due to language difficulties, racial inequality, deteriorating educational services, and exposure to an often adversarial youth subculture. How have the children of Vietnamese refugees managed to overcome these challenges? Growing Up American offers important evidence that community solidarity, cultural values, and a refugee sensibility have provided them with the resources needed to get ahead in American society. Zhou and Bankston also document the price exacted by the process of adaptation, as the struggle to define a personal identity and to decide what it means to be American sometimes leads children into conflict with their tight-knit communities. Growing Up American is the first comprehensive study of the unique experiences of Vietnamese immigrant children. It sets the agenda for future research on second generation immigrants and their entry into American society.

Download or read book The Acculturation of Vietnamese Refugee Adolescents and Adults in Los Angeles written by Julie Neustadt Heifetz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bridging the Many Worlds of Vietnamese Adolescents written by Huong Huynh Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Group Problem Solving Training for Vietnamese Refugee Adolescent Girls written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author conducted a problem solving training group with five English-speaking Vietnamese refugee adolescent girls. This was a primary mental health prevention program geared toward reduction of family conflict. The author anticipated that through the use of the cognitive problem solving techniques learned in the group, the girls would improve their ability to cope with family conflicts related to acculturation to American society. Improved coping skills would lead to a decrease in the experience of symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other distressing problems. The girls would also experience increased satisfaction with their families. The author reviewed the refugee mental health, and the problem solving literature. Psychological issues play a part in refugee migration and in the acculturation process. Indeed, such issues contribute to the common generational conflicts in acculturating families. The tasks and crises of individual and family development affect the efforts of family members to acculturate, and contribute to conflicts between members. The author established the extent and nature of conflict in Vietnamese refugee families through an examination of empirical studies and anecdotal reports. She discussed the various methods that clinicians have used to ameliorate family conflict in Vietnamese and other immigrant families, and described the importance of cultural considerations in therapy. Through a discussion of D'Zurilla's (1986, 1988) problem solving therapy, she demonstrated how this type of cognitive - behavioral intervention is culturally appropriate for Vietnamese adolescent girls. The author conducted six group sessions during which the participants learned D'Zurilla's problem solving method. In order to test the hypotheses that there would be changes in the girls' command of the problem solving method, and in their levels of symptomatic behavior, and other problems, the author administered four assessment measures before beginning the sessions. These were the Index of Family Relations (IFR) (Hudson, 1982), The Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25) (Mollica, et al., 1987), the Youth-Self Report (YSR) (Achenbach and Edelbrock, 1987), and the Problem Solving Test, an original measure devised by the author. The participants completed the same battery of measures at the completion of the group. The author included a detailed outline of the six sessions of Problem Solving Training, including the stories of problem situations that the participants used to practice the method. The author also provided a narrative of the events that occurred in each session and a discussion of the results of the group. Results of the assessment measures were somewhat unclear and contradictory. The author discussed the possible reasons for the contradictions in the outcome data. She suggested that because of cultural factors, the tests used might not have accurately measured the distress of the girls. The girls did demonstrate at post testing an increased facility with the problem solving method. The author concluded with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the project, and recommendations for research.

Download or read book The Handbook of Culture and Psychology written by David Matsumoto and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a state of the art review of selected areas and topics in cross-cultural psychology written by eminent figures in the field. Each chapter not only reviews the latest research in its respective area, but also goes further in integrating and synthesizing across areas. The Handbook of Culture and Psychology is a unique and timely contribution that should serve as a valuable reference and guide for beginning researchers and scholars alike.

Download or read book Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition written by John W. Berry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic Edition of 'Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition', first published in 2006, includes a new introduction by the editors, describing the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for this vital field of study. It emphasizes the importance of continued actions and policies to improve the quality of interactions between multiple ethno-cultural groups, and highlights how these issues have developed the field of cross-cultural psychology. In the original text, an international team of psychologists with interests in acculturation, identity, and development describes the experience and adaptation of immigrant youth, using data from over 7,000 immigrant youth from diverse cultural backgrounds and national youth living in 13 countries of settlement. They explore the way in which immigrant adolescents carry out their lives at the intersection of two cultures (those of their heritage group and the national society), and how well these youth are adapting to their intercultural experience. It explores four distinct patterns followed by youth during their acculturation: *an integration pattern, in which youth orient themselves to, and identify with both cultures; *an ethnic pattern, in which youth are oriented mainly to their own group; *a national pattern, in which youth look primarily to the national society; and *a diffuse pattern, in which youth are uncertain and confused about how to live interculturally. The study shows the variation in both the psychological adaptation and the sociocultural adaptation among youth, with most adapting well. This Classic Edition continues to be highly valuable reading for researchers, graduate students, and public policy makers who have an interest in public health, psychology, anthropology, sociology, demography, education, and psychiatry.

Download or read book Vietnamese Refugee Adolescents Acculturation written by Kim Oanh Cook and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology written by David L. Sam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the topic of acculturation has evolved from a relatively minor research area to one of the most researched subjects in the field of cross-cultural psychology. This edited handbook compiles and systemizes the current state of the art by exploring the broad international scope of acculturation. A collection of the world's leading experts in the field review the various contexts for acculturation, the central theories, the groups and individuals undergoing acculturation (immigrants, refugees, indigenous people, expatriates, students and tourists) and discuss how current knowledge can be applied to make both the process and its outcome more manageable and profitable. Building on the theoretical and methodological framework of cross-cultural psychology, the authors focus specifically on the issues that arise when people from one culture move to another culture and the reciprocal adjustments, tensions and benefits involved.

Download or read book Making Sense of Fractured Lives written by Diem T. Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugee mental health is a critical global health problem. For refugees, exposure to war, violence, torture, and other forms of trauma can leave deep physical, psychological, and emotional imprints with long-term consequences on mental health. But beyond the exposures to the violence happening in their homelands, refugees’ migration journeys, resettlement, and on-going acculturation experiences also add to their mental distress. Without treatment, mental distress continues to surface to disrupt the recovery and adaptation of families and communities. Using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, this qualitative study examines the long-term consequences of exposure to trauma, resettlement and on-going acculturation stress on refugee communities’ mental health. The study focuses specifically on the Vietnamese refugee community in King County, Washington as a case study. Vietnamese refugees make up one of the largest and oldest refugee communities in the United States since the establishment of the Refugee Act of 1980. There is a sense that many Vietnamese refugees have “made it” as an acculturation story. Across major U.S. cities, we see the presence of the Vietnamese people establishing roots and rebuilding families and communities. But underneath this layer of success lies a great many untold stories of pain that have been overshadowed by the need to move forward. Many Vietnamese continue to face challenges connected to past exposure to trauma as well as on-going acculturation stress. The findings from this case study will further our understanding of the long-term impacts of exposures to trauma, migration, and acculturation on the community’s recovery and adaptation with implications for research, practice, and community education.

Download or read book The Influence of Acculturation and Emigration Trauma on Identity Formation in Vietnamese Refugee Adolescents written by Margaret Miryam Shemaria and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acculturation of Vietnamese Refugees written by Quang Viet Tran and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acculturation of Russian Refugee Adolescents written by Andrew Morozov and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative study was to uncover the meaning of acculturation as experienced by the Russian refugee adolescents in the domain of peer relationships. This qualitative study implemented a purposeful sampling strategy. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 refugee adolescents from Russia (3 ethnic Russians and 9 Meskhetian Turks), male and female, aged 15-18, who resided in Denver, Colorado. Applying Moustakas's (1994) phenomenology method of analysis, 8 main themes emerged. The essence of the phenomenon can be described in terms of the refugee adolescents' need for self-worth and belongingness. Belongingness is understood as identification with and acceptance by peers of the culture of origin and host culture in a culture-contact situation upon immigration. It was found that exclusion by peers pushed refugee adolescents to search for restoration of dignity, acceptance, and identification with other culture(s) available to them. The findings revealed important factors moderating acculturation to the American culture in the peer relationships domain: refugee adolescents' perception of pre-migration experience, a limited pool of potential partners, deprivation of the adult status, perceived discrepancy in the level of maturity between themselves and their American peers, cultural discrepancies in understanding friendship and ways of courtship, English language competence/use/ preference, and perceived discrimination/negative treatment by part of the American peers from the dominant culture. In particular, negative treatment received from members of the dominant American culture was identified as a factor moderating acculturation to non-dominant American cultures in the peer relationships domain, and along with other factors, served as a basis for identification of the participants with the heterogeneous group of immigrant/minority youth from different countries who perceived similar negative treatment from their American counterparts. Perceived negative treatment was found to be a powerful risk factor, creating conditions for reactive identity formation towards the American culture, idealization of an oppositional culture, and self-radicalization. Implications for social work education, research, and practice, as well as future research opportunities are suggested.

Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Download or read book The Role of Information and Communication Technology in the Acculturation of Vietnamese Refugees written by Khanh A. Tran and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant refugee populations in the United States is the Vietnamese. This group initially fled their native country to escape political oppression at the conclusion of the Vietnam War in 1975 and continued to flee in a series of separate waves that continued for more than three decades. As a relatively new immigrant group in the U.S., the Vietnamese still face a variety of challenges as they try to reestablish their lives and adapt in a new cultural environment. Acculturation is a complex process that is influenced by a number of factors. Throughout history, U.S. immigration policy has significantly affected the admission and adaptation of refugees. As shifts in the ideological frameworks, economic demands, and attitudes towards the rest of the world occurred in the twentieth century, which eventually brought the liberalization of immigration policy, this influence slowly decreased. This allowed for factors in the domestic political, economic, and social environments to become more powerful in affecting how refugees adapt in the U.S. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become integral aspects in both assisting and complicating the acculturation process for refugees. These technologies are helping Vietnamese refugees culturally adjust in American communities as well as maintain ties with their native culture; thus, illustrating the multifaceted nature of acculturation. However, the impact of ICTs is not uniform across all of the different waves of refugees who fled from Vietnam. This study demonstrates that interaction and communication are key aspects in cross-cultural adaptation and the importance of media in contemporary everyday life.

Download or read book Acculturation Adjustment and Length of Residence of Vietnamese Refugees written by Marianne Celano and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acculturation and Parent child Relationships written by Marc H. Bornstein and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) sponsored a conference that brought together scholars who work to define and develop assessments of acculturation, and who study the impact of acculturation on families. The goals of the conference were to evaluate both the status of acculturation as a scientific construct and the roles of acculturation in parenting and human development. The goal of this volume is to advance the state-of-the-art. Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships: Measurement and Development is a must-read for researchers, students, and policymakers concerned with cultural factors that affect the lives of parents and children.