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Culture in Asian American Community Psychology: Beyond the East–West Binary
Author(s) -
Okazaki Sumie,
Saw Anne
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-010-9368-z
Subject(s) - community psychology , health psychology , ethnic group , cross cultural psychology , immigration , sociology , asian americans , cultural psychology , cultural diversity , psychology , gender studies , social psychology , public health , anthropology , political science , medicine , nursing , law
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.