Understanding Acculturation and Its Use in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Ibrahim, Farah A.; Heuer, Jianna R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18057-1_4

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“…In this article, we posit that acculturation is not just for new immigrants or from the first contact with a host culture (cf. Ibrahim & Heuer, 2016); instead, research and theory development around the acculturation process could focus on perceived microaggressions and racism. This would expand the research populations to include communities of color typically not associated with acculturation (e.g., African Americans and Native Americans).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The fourth recommendation for psychologists is to conceptualize acculturation stress or distress (Ibrahim & Heuer, 2016) as racialized interactions wherein persons of color must question how they should engage with White people, despite having adopted dominant cultural norms and behaviors. For persons of color, developing better resilience means understanding how to be intentional in their actions-when to take care of and/or when to question the White person's presumed expectations.…”

Section: Practice Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ibrahim and Heuer (2016) summarized decades of acculturation research and found that studies primarily focused on immigrant groups in contact with a host culture, like the one in the United States. Much of this acculturation scholarship grew from the work of John W. Berry, a Canadian cross-cultural psychologist (Berry, 2006; Berry, Phinney, Sam, & Vedder, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet, even for all the sophistication in acculturation theories, research connecting racism and acculturation has focused on the interpersonal perceptions of racism and race-related stress (Concepcion et al, 2013; Ibrahim & Heuer, 2016) as aspects and experiences of the acculturation process. Dominant White cultural values are not connected to White supremacy but left as neutral (i.e., nonracial) mainstream value and belief systems (Ibrahim & Heuer, 2016). These models also place a premium on personal choice, inferring that persons of color have the power to choose how they will interact with the environment and the people in it.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although current research on acculturation (Ibrahim & Heuer, 2016), microaggressions (Wang et al, 2011), race-related stress (Pittman, Cho Kim, Hunter, & Obasi, 2017), and racial trauma (Comas-Díaz, 2016) have expanded our understanding of the ways in which people live in dominant cultural environments, existing acculturation theories have yet to fully explicate the foundational White supremacist ideologies of the dominant culture’s values and beliefs, and specifically, in the context of psychology, the additional psychological distress that acculturation has on people of color (Alamilla, Kim, Walker, & Sisson, 2017). In fact, these significant acculturative historical contexts have become practically unnoticed—even minimized—by some researchers (Rudmin, Wang, & de Castro, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Racial trauma, microaggressions, and becoming racially innocuous: The role of acculturation and White supremacist ideology.

Liu

Garrison

et al. 2019

American Psychologist

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Acculturation theories often describe how individuals in the United States adopt and incorporate dominant cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors such as individualism and selfreliance. Theorists tend to perceive dominant cultural values as "accessible to everyone," even though some dominant cultural values, such as preserving White racial status, are reserved for White people. In this article, the authors posit that White supremacist ideology is suffused within dominant cultural values, connecting the array of cultural values into a coherent whole and bearing with it an explicit status for White people and people of color. Consequently, the authors frame acculturation as a continuing process wherein some people of color learn explicitly via racism, microaggressions, and racial trauma about their racial positionality; White racial space; and how they are supposed to accommodate White people's needs, status, and emotions. The authors suggest that acculturation may mean that the person of color learns to avoid racial discourse to minimize eliciting White fragility and distress. Moreover, acculturation allows the person of color to live in proximity to White people because the person of color has become unthreatening and racially innocuous. The authors provide recommendations for research and clinical practice focused on understanding the connections between ideology, racism, microaggressions and ways to create psychological healing.

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