Asian Americans: Vulnerable Populations, Model Interventions, and Clarifying Agendas

Part I Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 1. Asian Voices
Chapter 2. Race-related Stressors and Psychological Trauma: Contributions of Asian American Vietnam Veterans
Chapter 3. Environmental Health and Chinatown
Chapter 4. Asian Americans with Disabilities
Chapter 5. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Asian Americans and Their Families
Chapter 6. Differentiating Racial and Ethnic Identity for Asian American Individuals and Communities

Part II Model Interventions
Chapter 7. S.O.S.- Shame, Obligation, Survival: Asian Americans and Domestic Violence
Chapter 8. Transforming Learning and Community Health: Voices and Experiences of Cambodian American Young Women on the Street Frontier
Chapter 9. Pedagogies of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Circle of Healing with Refugees and Veterans in Asian American Studies
Chapter 10. Teaching Who Killed Vincent Chin? 1991 and 2001
Chapter 11. Diversity Imperative: Learning Needs of Asian American Nursing Students

Part III Clarifying Agendas
Chapter 12. Response to Dementia Related Illness: An Ethnographic Study in a Chinese American Community
Chapter 13. Long Term Care: Proposed Model
Chapter 14. Improving Health for Elderly Asian Americans

• "Dr. Zhan has assembled a very distinguished group of authors who bring their research findings and scholarship together with the cultural and sociological issues of the Asian American population. In many ways, this book provides fascinating and forceful discussions of a culture that represents the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States."

  --Dr. Joyce C. Clifford, RN, PhD, FAAN

  The Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership

• Career Catalog 2008