Child and Family Center
Barcelona Conference Room
2:30-3:30 pm

December 10, 2004

May Lim
Counseling Psychology, University or Oregon
"Psychosocial Adjustment of Southeast Asian Immigrant Youth"

Abstract: The largest majority (36%) of the current 724,600 foreign-born Asians living in the U.S. are from Southeast Asia (U.S. Census, 2000). The lack of studies on Southeast Asians, coupled with the community's growing mental health issues, points to the need for increased research on this population. A more comprehensive and integrative model of psychosocial development that considers important cultural variables that have been previously unexamined in other developmental models would better inform the design and implementation of therapeutic interventions for the Southeast Asian population. May Lim's project proposes a developmental model for Southeast Asian immigrant youths by examining the role of family acculturation levels, parent acculturative stress, and conflict within the parent-adolescent relationship on the psychosocial adjustment of this population.