This article describes the barriers to Asian Americans' ability to use health care services and analyzes the reasons for the health care system's inability to respond to their needs. Finally, it urges social work to contribute to the system's responsiveness and suggests approaches to social work intervention with and on behalf of Asian Americans.…

A total of 596 Asian American college students responded to a survey investigating the relationship between acculturation and help-seeking. Results indicated that students who were less identified with the majority culture indicated higher likelihood of seeking help from community elders, religious leaders, student organizations, and church…

Examined Gottfredson's theory of career circumscription and compromise with 52 male and 97 female Asian-American college students. Found that there were changes in subjects' preferences for occupational sex type and prestige from early years into adolescent life periods. Sex type was more likely to be compromised than prestige in career choice…

Introduces seven essays on Ronald Takaki's "Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans." Opinion is divided as to the book's merits in terms of its content, organization, and research methodology. Two responses by Mr. Takaki are included. (DM)

Commends the book as a general introduction. Finds, however, that much of the material is secondary, with insufficient attribution. The book's coverage of the postwar period is largely anecdotal and does not record the recent emergence of ethnic and political consciousness, community organization, and artistic expression among Asian Americans. (DM)

Replies to every criticism in the foregoing essays of Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan. Endorses Chan's call for more in-depth research. Explains that the size of the book and the number of sources prevented closer annotation in the first edition. (DM)

Used ethnographic participant-observation research methodology to determine human services available through three Buddhist mutual assistance associations for Southeast Asian refugees living in Midwest. Found that Buddhism was linked to both traditional lifestyle and current efforts to overcome effects of war and trauma. Identified physical,…

Identifies the unique issues of Thai Americans as a cultural minority in the United States. Proposes ways of understanding and responding to Thai-American clients and recommends strategies for working more effectively with these clients. (Author)

Data from the Collaborative Perinatal Project analyzed for a subsample of 100 Asian Americans showed a higher IQ for the Asian American sample at age 7, and larger cranial capacity at birth, 4 months, 1 year, and 7 years as compared to Whites and Blacks. Socioeconomic status related to cranial capacity and IQ scores, but not stature or weight.…

Asian Americans (n=182) and European Americans (n=235) completed Crites Career Maturity Inventory and the Self-Construal Scale; Asian Americans also completed an acculturation scale. Asian Americans exhibited less mature career choices; highly acculturated Asian Americans and those with lower interdependent self-construal were similar to European…

Investigates the perceptions and experiences of school counselors with Asian-American students. Examines the variation of counseling techniques between Asian-Americans and White-Americans and differences in counseling strategies. Discusses implications for cultural-based counseling techniques. (Contains 49 references and 1 table.) (GCP)

This study explores the bereavement process of Chinese persons in Hong Kong, with the focus on how they make meaning of the death as well as how they maintain a bond with the deceased. A review of video- and audiotapes of 52 bereaved persons in bereavement counseling pointed to how these concepts are reflected in key themes that appeared…

This article presents a childhood beyond the Confucian shadow by studying children at play. It looks at the Confucian image of the ideal child and its association with the traditional Chinese perceptions of play and the education of children. Against this conceptual and historical discussion, children's games and toys are analysed to provide an…

This article outlines a dialogical approach to understanding how South Asian-American women living in diasporic locations negotiate their multiple and often conflicting cultural identities. We specifically use the concept of voice to articulate the different forms of dialogicality--polyphonization, expropriation, and ventriloquation--that are…

One theme that is reflected throughout this special issue on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) is a paradox of anti-oppressive education activism, namely, the paradox of defining a group for which to advocate while refusing to say what makes for that group. This Afterword reflects on the challenges of developing educational research…