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Publication Date: 2007-Nov
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Cultural Accommodation as Method and Metaphor
Leong, Frederick T. L.
American Psychologist, v62 n8 p916-927 Nov 2007
The author summarizes the cultural accommodation model (CAM) of cross-cultural psychotherapy (F. T. L. Leong & S. H. Lee, 2006). This summary is divided into 2 parts, with the 1st part describing the theoretical development of the CAM as a method of psychotherapy and the research approach underlying it. This section includes a description of the author's program of research in which the development of the CAM, as well as its precursors, is embedded. L. H. Rogler, R. G. Malgady, and O. Rodriguez's (1989) framework has served as the foundation of the author's program of research on Asian American mental health. In focusing on the 4th stage of L. H. Rogler et al.'s model, F. T. L. Leong (1996) developed an integrative and multidimensional model of cross-cultural psychotherapy based on C. Kluckhohn and H. A. Murray's (1950) tripartite model. The CAM is an extension of F. T. L. Leong's (1996) integrative multidimensional model. The 2nd part of this article provides some speculation about the development of the CAM as a metaphor for the author's development as a psychotherapist and a psychological scientist.
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Psychotherapy, Asian Americans, Models, Psychological Studies, Mental Health, Figurative Language
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Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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