Culture in Asian American community psychology: beyond the East-West binary.
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.
Okazaki
Sumie
S
Department of Applied Psychology, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York, 10003, USA. sumie.okazaki@nyu.edu
Saw
Anne
A
D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012111:Residence Characteristics