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| Wei Chin HwangSummaryAffiliation: Claremont McKenna College Country: USA Publications
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Acculturative family distancing: links with self-reported symptomatology among Asian Americans and LatinosWei Chin Hwang
Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 40:123-38. 2009..AFD occurs along two dimensions: communication difficulties and cultural value incongruence...- Disaggregating the effects of acculturation and acculturative stress on the mental health of Asian AmericansWei Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 14:147-54. 2008.... 
Qi-gong psychotic reaction in a Chinese American womanWei-Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 31:547-60. 2007- The impact of perceived racial discrimination on the mental health of Asian American and Latino college studentsWei Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 14:326-35. 2008..Findings highlight the need to address discrimination across multiple social and professional settings and to understand the broad array of mental health outcomes... 
Acculturative family distancing (AFD) and depression in Chinese American familiesWei Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 78:655-67. 2010..It is a more proximal and problem-focused formulation of the acculturation gap and is hypothesized to increase depression via family conflict...- Major depression in Chinese Americans: the roles of stress, vulnerability, and acculturationWei Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:189-97. 2007..This study examined the relationship between recent negative life events, level of acculturation and other psychosocial risk factors in predicting major depression in Chinese Americans... - The psychotherapy adaptation and modification framework: application to Asian AmericansWei Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Am Psychol 61:702-15. 2006..However, it may also serve as a point of departure to adapt therapies for other ethnocultural groups... - A conceptual paradigm for understanding culture's impact on mental health: the cultural influences on mental health (CIMH) modelWei Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA, 91711 United States
Clin Psychol Rev 28:211-27. 2008..Implications for clinical research and practice are discussed... - Predictors of help seeking for emotional distress among Chinese Americans: family mattersJennifer Abe-Kim
Department of Psychology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California 90045 2659, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 70:1186-90. 2002..In addition to family conflict, mental health service use was predicted by negative life events, emotional distress, and insurance coverage. Implications of the findings for assessing and treating Asian American clients are explored... - Ethnic differences in clinical presentation of depression in adult womenHector F Myers
Department of Psychology, UCLA, P O Box 951563, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 8:138-56. 2002..Additional research is needed to validate these results and to investigate their clinical significance... - Age of first onset major depression in Chinese AmericansWei Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 11:16-27. 2005..Competing theories of acculturation-related risk are discussed and directions for future research are proposed... - Parenting and childhood anxiety: theory, empirical findings, and future directionsJeffrey J Wood
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:134-51. 2003..Improved methodological designs are proposed, including the use of repeated-measure and experimental designs for examining the direction of effects... - Daily living skills in school-age children with and without anxiety disordersAmy Drahota
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, California, USA
Br J Clin Psychol 52:107-12. 2013..Anxiety may interfere with school-age children's independent behaviour and hence, their daily living skills (DLS). Nonetheless, this has not been tested in previous studies of children with clinical anxiety... - Cultural influences on help-seeking attitudes in Asian American studentsJulia Y Ting
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 79:125-32. 2009..These findings suggest that reducing societal stigma and increasing individual tolerance to stigma should be a focus for prevention and intervention programs on college campuses... - Psychosis and shamanism in a Filipino-american immigrant: clinical case studyWei-Chin Hwang
Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 31:251-69. 2007 - State of the science on psychosocial interventions for ethnic minoritiesJeanne Miranda
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 1:113-42. 2005