This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a 10-week filial therapy training model as a method of intervention for immigrant Korean parents in the United States. Results of the analyses of covariance revealed that the immigrant Korean parents in the experimental group significantly increased their level of empathic interactions with their children and their attitude of acceptance toward their children, and significantly reduced their level of stress related to parenting as compared to parents in the control groups. This study supports the use of filial therapy for promoting the parent-child relationship in immigrant Korean families in the United States. Filial therapy helps immigrant Korean parents to be therapeutic agents for their children.The population of immigrant Koreans in the United States has steadily increased since the enactment of the 1965 Immigration Act (Hurh, 1998;Min, 1995Min, & 1998. Since family migration was encouraged by the Act, immediate family members and other relatives who had already settled in the United States invited their family members and relatives in Korea to the new country (Hurh, 1998). Therefore, Korean immigrants became the second largest Asian immigrant group in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s despite their short immigration history (Min, 1995(Min, & 1998.Immigration is a process of uprooting, adjusting, and re-rooting for any immigrant group (Hurh, 1998). Immigrant families experience a
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