Counseling Asian Indian Immigrant Families

A Pastoral Psychotherapeutic Model

Varughese Jacob

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319643076
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy Counselling
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the Author
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
• Chapter 2: Historical and Cultural Factors in Ethnic Identity Formation of Asian-Indian Immigrants: Understanding the Context ...
• Chapter 3: Cultural Identity and Intergenerational Conflicts
• Chapter 4: Presentation and Interpretation of the Empirical Data
• Chapter 5: Relationship, Culture, Community and Personhood
• Chapter 6: Marginality and Theology of New Marginality
• Chapter 7: Cohesive Self and New Marginality: A Mutual Critical Correlation
• Chapter 8: The Praxis-Reflection-Action Model: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Pastoral Care and Psychotherapy
• Chapter 9: Application of Praxis-Reflection-Action Model of Pastoral Counseling
• Appendix
• References
• Index