title: Finding the bicultural balance: immigrant Latino mothers raising "American" adolescents.
abstract: This article discusses the cross-cultural issues that confront immigrant Latino parents living and raising adolescents in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the need for social work practitioners, who, as they aid a family's integration into mainstream society, will listen to the parents' concerns and incorporate their past experiences and traditional culture into the assessment and treatment processes. Implications for practice, programs, and policy are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Hunter College School of Social Work, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Yolanda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Quinones-Mayo
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dempsey
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007843:Latin America / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States