Counseling Asian Indian Immigrant Families A Pastoral Psychotherapeutic Model /

• Main Author: Jacob, Varughese (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Child and School Psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

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...