Download or read book Vietnamese American Families Perceptions of Children s Mental Health written by Nancy Hieu Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More research is needed in the area of counseling children (Thompson, 2007) and specifically with ethnic minority children. Despite the large population and higher prevalence of mental health concerns due to refugee and immigrant status compared to the overall American population, the Vietnamese American population underutilizes mental health services. The current study expands on existing research using a constructivist lens and multiple case study approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four Vietnamese American mothers who had children 12 and under who had or are currently using mental health services. Two primarily were Vietnamese speaking and two were primarily English speaking. Participants shared perceptions of mental health for Vietnamese American children, and described their experiences with mental health services for their children. The findings of this study indicate that Vietnamese beliefs and values, perceptions of problems, perceptions of factors contributing to mental health, approaches to addressing mental health concerns, and experiences of treatment all impacted the participants perceptions of their children's mental health service use. Implications of the findings will be detailed according to the Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006), combined with an integrative model for Vietnamese Americans (Lam, 2005), and detailed in regards to practice, training, and future research."--Preface.

Download or read book Vietnamese American Families Perceptions Of Children s Mental Health written by Nancy Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More research is needed in the area of counseling children (Thompson, 2007) and specifically with ethnic minority children. Despite the large population and higher prevalence of mental health concerns due to refugee and immigrant status compared to the overall American population, the Vietnamese American population underutilizes mental health services. The current study expands on existing research using a constructivist lens and multiple case study approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four Vietnamese American mothers who had children 12 and under who had or are currently using mental health services. Two primarily were Vietnamese speaking and two were primarily English speaking. Participants shared perceptions of mental health for Vietnamese American children, and described their experiences with mental health services for their children. The findings of this study indicate that Vietnamese beliefs and values, perceptions of problems, perceptions of factors contributing to mental health, approaches to addressing mental health concerns, and experiences of treatment all impacted the participants perceptions of their children's mental health service use. Implications of the findings will be detailed according to the Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 1998; Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006), combined with an integrative model for Vietnamese Americans (Lam, 2005), and detailed in regards to practice, training, and future research.

Download or read book Vietnamese Refugee and American Children written by Mitzi Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 150 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 Asian American Parenting written by Yoonsun Choi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families. Delving beneath longstanding generalizations and assumptions that have often hampered intervention with this diverse and growing population, expert contributors analyze the intricate dynamics of generational conflict and child development in Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and other Asian American households. Wide-angle coverage identifies critical factors shaping Asian American family process, from parenting styles, behaviors, and values to adjustment and autonomy issues across childhood and adolescence, including problems specific to girls and young women. Contributors also make extensive use of quantitative and qualitative findings in addressing the myriad paradoxes surrounding Asian identity, acculturation, and socialization in contemporary America. Among the featured topics: Rising challenges and opportunities of uncertain times for Asian American families. A critical race perspective on an empirical review of Asian American parental racial-ethnic socialization. Socioeconomic status and child/youth outcomes in Asian American families. Daily associations between adolescents’ race-related experiences and family processes. Understanding and addressing parent-adolescent conflict in Asian American families. Behind the disempowering parenting: expanding the framework to understand Asian-American women’s self-harm and suicidality. Asian American Parenting is vital reading for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working family therapy cases who seek specific, practice-oriented case examples and resources for empowering interventions with Asian American parents and families.

Download or read book Vietnamese American Service Providers Perceptions of Child Welfare Services to Vietnamese Americans written by Phoenix N. Tran and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study found that participants were dissatisfied with the child welfare system. Most of the participants perceived that Vietnamese American children and families were fearful of child welfare workers. In addition, child welfare workers were perceived to lack knowledge of the Vietnamese American culture and its values. Bilingual and bicultural child welfare workers were presented as a better alternative to translators and interpreters. Participants of the study offered strategies for building collaborations and partnerships with the Vietnamese community, which included knowledge of the cultural values.

Download or read book Asian American Mental Health written by Karen Kurasaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Family social networks and mental health service use among Vietnamese Americans in multigenerational families written by Alvin Shiulain Lee and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Asian American and Pacific Islander Children and Mental Health written by Frederick T. Leong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-its-kind, two-volume set examines physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that undermine—or support—healthy development in Asian American children. How do skin color, culture, racial and ethnic identities, politics, economics, and environment influence children's mental health and academic success? Asian American and Pacific Islander Children and Mental Health spotlights these forces and more. This unique, two-volume work examines a wide range of factors that affect children, including family conditions and economic status, child abuse, substance abuse, gangs, and community stability, as well as prejudices such as the common expectation that Asian Americans are a "model minority" and their children "whiz kids." Since education is key to success, contributors consider the factors affecting Asian American children largely in the context of educational readiness and academic adjustment. However, the set is not limited to exploring problems. It also looks at factors that help Asian American children be mentally healthy, engaged, and successful at school and in later life. Volume one of the set explores development and context, while volume two looks at prevention and treatment.

Download or read book Vietnamese Refugee and American Children Perceptions of Self Peers Teachers Vietnamese and Americans written by Mitzi Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vietnamese Americans Perceptions of Child Maltreatment written by Nhi Thao Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Mental Health and Acculturation in Asian American Families written by Nhi-ha Trinh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the United States. When Asian immigrants arrive in the United States, they regularly encounter a vast number of difficulties integrating themselves into their new culture. In Handbook of Mental Health and Acculturation in Asian American Families, distinguished researchers and clinicians discuss the process of acculturation for individuals and their families, addressing the mental health needs of Asian Americans and thoroughly examining the acculturative process, its common stressors, and characteristics associated with resiliency. This first-of-its-kind, multi-dimensional title synthesizes current acculturation research, while presenting those concepts within a clinical framework. In addition to providing an in-depth look at both past and present research and offering directions for future topics to explore, the book also offers a range of practical tools such as research scales to measure levels of acculturation, interview techniques, and clinical approaches for special populations including children, the elderly, and their families. Thought-provoking and informative, Handbook of Mental Health and Acculturation in Asian American Families will enhance the understanding of the clinical and sociocultural problems Asian Americans face, providing clinicians with all the necessary insights to better care for their patients.

Download or read book Finding One s Way to a Place where I Am Respected written by Hannah Thuy Thi Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the high prevalence of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among first-generation Vietnamese Americans, their underutilization of mental health services continues to persist. The question of how culturally sensitive mental health services can be delivered to engage this population effectively in treatment has been a key issue for disparities research for the past several decades. Ample literature has identified individual, sociocultural and structural factors that influence mental health service use among this population, but very few studies have explored the perceptions of the clients themselves about mental illness or their pathways to care. Twenty-one individual, inductive, and qualitative one-on-one interviews were conducted to address three aims: 1) to explore the conceptualizations of health among first-generation Vietnamese Americans living with depression and/or PTSD, 2) to illustrate the pathways through which this population obtained outpatient mental health services, and 3) to describe their expectations and perceptions of outpatient mental health treatment. Constructivist grounded theory (GT) guided all aspects of this study. The participants were mostly female and ranged in age from 42 to 74 years. Two major themes, "bounded within these four walls" and finding one's way to "a place where I am respected," emerged as overarching processes through which the participants described their experiences. Their rich stories portrayed journeys through losing, finding and reclaiming their self worth -- journeys marked with losses, sacrifices, disruptions, stigma, resilience, coming to terms with their conditions, and managing their illnesses. These men and women remained optimistic on the road to reclaiming their sense of self worth, despite being crippled by their legacies of war, trauma, and migration to the United States. Their stories offer a culturally nuanced understanding of how participants explained their emotional discomforts, how they found their various ways to agencies that could help ease these discomforts, and the unexpected resources and relationships they gained from outpatient mental health care. This study's findings provide strong implications for social work research, practice, and policy that can help empower these individuals to find purpose and hope in their lives.

Download or read book Vietnamese American Parents Perception of Special Education written by Sheila Doan Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In order to understand the perception of special education services through the experiences of Vietnamese parents, a study utilizing a semi-structured interview was carried out with five parents. With the use of an interview questionnaire developed by Jeanette Misaka (1992), the researcher was able to discover six themes that affect a families' own understanding of their child's disability and special education services. The six themes that emerged were: appropriate communication, sense of connectedness, trust, understanding, cultural competency, and severity of the disability. The themes presented from the findings in this research study provide a guide for teachers and administrators to use as they relay information about a child's disability to the family."--Abstract, p. 1.

Download or read book Asian American Communities and Health written by Chau Trinh-Shevrin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective. It provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence the distribution of disease and illness in Asian American communities. The book explores the diversity within the Asian community with respect to health seeking behavior and knowledge, socioeconomic status, educational level, cultural traditions, and specific health care needs and issues. By examining the contextual factors that impact health, the book seeks to facilitate a meaningful dialogue and identify creative solutions for health disparities faced by racial and ethnic minority communities.

Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Download or read book Culturally Diverse Parent Child and Family Relationships written by Nancy Boyd Webb and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly diverse social environment, misunderstandings often arise between practitioners in the helping professions and clients from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. This book investigates the culturally specific beliefs and child-rearing practices of five major racial/ethnic groups: African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans. Analyses of case vignettes illustrate the book's dual focus on the practitioners' own views in addition to those of their culturally diverse clients. Guidelines offer suggestions for effective engagement and work with culturally diverse families.