Understanding Asian American clients: Problems and possibilities for cross-cultural counseling with special reference to Korean Americans

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 91-114

  Eum Kim, Yea Sun ^a,b  

^a FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

^b American Family Therapy Academy   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian American; Asian American values; Counseling mistakes; Cross cultural counseling; Ethnic match; Problems of Asian Americans

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248606364     PISSN: 15313204     EISSN: 15313212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J051v12n03_05     Document Type: Article

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