Counseling Asian Indian immigrant families : a pastoral psychotherapeutic model / Varughese Jacob.

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Counseling Asian Indian immigrant families : a pastoral psychotherapeutic model / Varughese Jacob.

9783319643076 (electronic book)
331964307X (electronic book)
9783319643069

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

English

1 online resource (441 pages)

10.1007/978-3-319-64307-6 doi

HV4005 .J33 2017

305.9/06912
158.3086912

This book provides insight into the unique challenges facing Indian and South Asian immigrants in the West--particularly in the United States. It explores the "baggage" they carry; their expectations versus the realities of negotiating a new cultural, social, religious, and economic milieu; nostalgia and idealization of the past; and the hybridity of existence. Within this context, the author discusses factors which often contribute to intergenerational family conflict among this population. Jacob asserts that this conflict is largely a product of differences in cultural values and identity, acculturation stress, and the experience of marginality. After analyzing and interpreting empirical data collected from two hundred families, he proposes the "Praxis-Reflection-Action" (PRA) Model: a five-stage therapeutic model and the first pastoral psychotherapeutic model developed for the Asian Indians living in the West.

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