Asian American Identities, Relationships, and Post-Migration Legacies - Reflections from Marriage and Family Therapists

Bringing together the personal and professional narratives of Asian American family therapists, this book offers insight into the Asian American experience through systemic theory and frameworks, individual and community stories, and clinical considerations.

The Asian American experience is still a largely invisible and unknown one, especially in the field of marriage and family therapy. With a contextual lens, this book highlights how understanding family migration legacies and individual generational status relative to time, place, and context is critical to doing meaningful work with Asian Americans. Filled with thought-provoking case studies and reflective questions, chapters discuss the impact of stereotyping on mental health, the historical and present ways that Asian American racialization invisibilizes individual and collective experiences, shame associated with bicultural identity, gender, generational trauma, media representations, and more. Each chapter bridges thes