Related Agencies and Websites

• Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity
• Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)
• Immigrant and Refugee Children
• National Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
• National Center for Cultural Competence
• National Immigration Forum
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Newcomer in American Schools: Meeting the Educational Needs of Immigrant Youth
• Refugee Mental Health Program

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

• Adolescent culture brokering and family functioning: a study of families from Vietnam. Trickett, E.J., & Jones, C.J. (2007). Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 13, 143-150.
• A bimensional model of acculturation for examining differences in family functioning and behavior problems in Hispanic immigrant adolescents. Szapocznik, J. (2007). Journal of Early Adolescence, 27, 405-430.
• Classroom drama therapy program for immigrant and refugee adolescents: a pilot study. Rousseau, C. et al., (2007). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12, 451-465.
• Parental self-efficacy and social support as predictors of parenting practices and children's socioemotional adjustment in Mexican immigrant families. Izzo, Charles; Weiss, Laura; Shanahan, Timothy; Rodriguez-Brown, Flora. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community. The Haworth Press Inc: US, 2000. 20 (1-2): p. 197-213.
• Refugees' responses to mental health screening. Ovitt, N., Larrison, C.R., & Nackerud, L. (2007). International Social Work, 46, 235-250.
• Self- and parent assessment of mental health: Disagreement on externalizing and internalizing behaviour in young refugees from the Middle East. Montgomery, E. (2008). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 13, 49-63.
• The school adjustment of South Asian immigrant children in the United States. Bhattacharya, Gauri. Adolescence. 2000 Spr. 35 (137): p. 77-85.

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