Premium
Immigrant Women and Counseling: The Invisible Others
Author(s) -
Yakushko Oksana,
Chronister Krista M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2005.tb00346.x
Subject(s) - immigration , sociocultural evolution , mental health , psychological intervention , psychology , population , social ecological model , acculturation , gerontology , medicine , sociology , geography , psychiatry , environmental health , anthropology , archaeology , pathology
The number of women immigrating to the United States is growing because of current global changes (A. J. Marsella & E. Ring, 2003). Understanding and serving the mental health needs of this population is a new challenge for American counselors and counseling scholars. In this article, an ecological model (U. Bronfenbrenner, 1979) is used to describe the mental health needs of immigrant women, outline various counseling strategies and interventions, and systematically explore the sociocultural variables influencing immigrant women's experiences in the U.S.