Intergenerational Ties in Immigrant Families

Strengthening Intergenerational/ Intercultural Ties in Immigrant Families:

Presently, 12.6 percent of Americans are immigrants, many of whom originated from Latin America and Asia. While adult immigrants tend to retain traditional ethnic values, their children are more likely to embrace mainstream American culture resulting in intergenerational conflict, increasing the risk of school failure, gang involvement, substance abuse, depression, and suicide. Informed by social learning theory, Strengthening Intergenerational/Intercultural Ties in Immigrant Families (SITIF) is a culturally competent, community-based intervention that targets immigrant parents' affect, cognition, and behavior to enhance intergenerational communication and intimacy. Pilot data supporting its effectiveness with Chinese American parents will be presented.

Yu-Wen Ying is a professor at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. She has published extensively in the area of Asian American mental health, including cross-cultural adaptation, acculturation, intergenerational relationships in immigrant families, depression, and prevention interventions and has also studied self-care in social workers. She is the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Contributions Award from the Asian American Psychological Association and the 2004 Teacher of the Year Award from UC Berkeley.

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