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- Title
Introduction to the Special Issues.
- Authors
Sandhu, Daya Singh
- Abstract
The article presents information on a special issue of "Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development," on Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. The special issue is a step toward introducing and sensitizing the counselors and other mental health practitioners to the special needs and concerns of this rapidly increasing minority. The major aim of this special issue on Asian and Pacific Islander Americans is to enhance better understanding of all types of racial and ethnic clients whom counselors encounter on a daily basis in this multicultural society. Asian and Pacific Islander Americans is a category of people, designed for convenience by the United States Bureau of the Census, that consists of an exceptional array of many distinct cultural and ethnic categories. Due to its small number, this population of Americans have been the members of the "invisible minority" in the past. Information about this category of people is scant and misleading. Under the false notion of its being a "model minority," many of the problems of Asian and Pacific Islanders have been ignored. Since the passage of the Immigration Laws of 1965, the population of Asian Americans has Increased dramatically.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PACIFIC Islander Americans; ETHNOLOGY; AMERICANS; ASIANS; MULTICULTURALISM; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, 1997, Vol 25, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0883-8534
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.2161-1912.1997.tb00311.x