Immigration and acculturation : mourning, adaptation, and the next generation / Salman Akhtar.

Moving from one country to another causes a radical alteration of one's cultural and geophysical surround. Separation from friends and family, loss of valued possessions, and encountering new ways of living result in mental pain and disorienting anxieties. In Immigration and Acculturation, Salm...

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Main Author: Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, ©2011.
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505 0 |a Leaving and arriving -- The trauma of geographical dislocation -- Being and becoming -- Work and money -- Sex and marriage -- Friendship and socialization -- Religion and politics -- The dusk and the dawn -- Encountering Middle age and getting old -- The next generation -- The wounded healer -- Challenges of being an immigrant therapist. 
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650 0 |a Emigration and immigration  |x Psychological aspects. 
650 0 |a Manners and customs. 
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650 7 |a Acculturation  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Emigration and immigration  |x Psychological aspects  |2 fast 
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