Culture in Asian American Community Psychology: Beyond the East-West Binary

Sumie Okazaki, Anne Saw

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Abstract

In response to a call to better integrate culture in community psychology (O'Donnell in American Journal of Community Psychology 37:1-7 2006), we offer a cultural-community framework to facilitate a collaborative engagement between community psychologists and ethnic minority communities, focusing on Asian American communities as illustrations. Extending Hays' (Addressing cultural complexities in practice: Assessment, diagnosis, and therapy, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2008) ADDRESSING framework for considering cultural influences on a counseling relationship, the proposed framework provides a broad but systematic guidepost for considering three major cultural-ecological influences on Asian American communities: Race and Ethnicity (R), Culture (C), and Immigration and Transnational Ties (I). We provide a sequence of steps that incorporate the ADDRESSING and the RCI frameworks to facilitate the collaborative community-based research or social action.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)144-156
Number of pages13
JournalAmerican journal of community psychology
Volume47
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Keywords

  • Asian Americans
  • Community
  • Culture
  • Ethnicity
  • Immigration
  • Race

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Health(social science)
  • Applied Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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