Teresa D. LaFromboise

TL;DR: Assimilation, acculturation, alternation, multicultural, and fusion models that have been used to describe the psychological processes, social experiences, and individual challenges and obstacles of being bicultural are reviewed and summarized for their contributions and implications for investigations of the psychological impact of biculturalism.

TL;DR: This chapter examines available data from treatment outcome studies with minorities and examines what is known about outcomes of mental health treatments for ethnic minorities and begins to answer these important questions about providing care to growing and diverse ethnic minority populations.

TL;DR: The Cross-Cultural Counseling Inventory (CCCI) as discussed by the authors is a measure based on the American Psychological Association Division 17 Educa- tion and Training Committee's tridimensional characteristics of cross-cultural counseling competence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined resilience among a sample of American Indian adolescents living on or near reservations in the upper Midwest and found that having a warm and supportive mother, perceiving community support, and exhibiting higher levels of enculturation were each associated with increased likelihood of positive outcomes in the face of adversity.

TL;DR: Examination of cultural effects takes into account perceived discrimination, as one indicator of culture conflict, and traditional practices, as a measure of cultural identification to indicate that discrimination is strongly associated with depressive symptoms among American Indian adults and that engaging in traditional practices is negatively related to depressive symptoms.