BUSSW Professor Hyeouk Chris Hahm’s New Publication Presents Guidelines for Conducting Culturally Relevant and Clinically Effective Intervention with Asian American Families

BUSSW’s Hyeouk Chris Hahm, Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Research Department, recently produced and co-edited her latest publication titled Asian American Parenting: Family Process and Intervention. The text provides social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners with data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families.

This book is the collection of the research that was conducted to detail the dynamics surrounding generational conflicts, protective factors, and child development in Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and other Asian American families.

Critical factors that shape the Asian American family process were analyzed, including parenting styles, behaviors, and values to adjustment and autonomy issues across childhood and adolescence. Challenges specific to girls and young women were also included in the analysis. The myriad paradoxes surrounding Asian identity, acculturation, and socialization in contemporary America are also addressed in the book.

Featured topics include:

• Rising challenges and opportunities of uncertain times for Asian American families.
• A critical race perspective on an empirical review of Asian American parental racial-ethnic socialization.
• Socioeconomic status and child/youth outcomes in Asian American families.
• Daily associations between adolescents’ race-related experiences and family processes.
• Understanding and addressing parent-adolescent conflict in Asian American families.
• Behind the disempowering parenting: expanding the framework to understand Asian-American women’s self-harm and suicidality.

Asian American Parenting: Family Process and Intervention is essential reading for social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working family therapy cases who seek specific, practice-oriented case examples and resources for empowering interventions with Asian American parents and families.

Hyeouk Chris Hahm is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Social Research Department at BUSSW. Her practice and scholarly research focuses on HIV/STI infections among Asian Americans, acculturation, health risk behaviors, health care utilization among Asian American adolescents and sexual minority populations, and health status and health care utilization among people with mental illness.