A Brief Review of Mental Health Issues among Asian and Pacific Islander Communities in the U.S.
A Brief Review of Mental Health Issues among Asian and Pacific Islander Communities in the U.S.
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10.31372/20200504.1124
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2021
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Park M
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本文的目的是提供美国亚洲和太平洋岛民（API）社区心理健康问题的简要总结。API包括来自远东亚洲的个人（例如，韩国、中国）、中亚（如，阿富汗、乌兹别克斯坦）、南亚（例如，印度、巴基斯坦）、东南亚（例如，泰国、菲律宾）、西亚（例如，伊朗、沙特阿拉伯）和太平洋岛屿（例如，夏威夷、萨摩亚、马里亚纳群岛、斐济、帕劳、法属波利尼西亚、马歇尔群岛、密克罗尼西亚、新西兰、托克劳群岛、纽埃和库克群岛）。他们总共说一百多种语言和方言。API社区的这种多样性为研究、教育和实践带来了独特的挑战和机遇。关于API社区心理健康问题的现有文献因缺乏高质量数据和分类程度不足而受到损害。这种知识差距阻碍了我们制定针对文化和语言的干预措施的能力，反过来，API社区经历了心理健康差异和心理健康服务的差异。为了推动该领域的发展，未来的API研究工作应重点关注阐明不同API子组之间的差异，确定解释此类差异的原因，并检查此类差异对研究、实践、教育和政策的影响。
The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief summary of mental health issues among Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities in the U.S. APIs include individuals from Far East Asia (e.g., Korea, China), Central Asia (e.g., Afghanistan, Uzbekistan), South Asia (e.g., India, Pakistan), South East Asia (e.g., Thailand, Philippines), Western Asia (e.g., Iran, Saudi Arabia), and Pacific islands (e.g., Hawaii, Samoa, Mariana island, Fiji, Palau, French Polynesia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Zealand, Tokelau islands, Niue, and Cook Islands). Collectively they speak more than one hundred languages and dialects. Such a diversity across the API community presents unique challenges and opportunities for research, education, and practice. The existing body of literature on mental health issues in API communities is marred by the lack of high-quality data and insufficient degrees of disaggregation. Such a knowledge gap hindered our ability to develop culturally and linguistically tailored interventions, and in turn, API communities have experienced mental health disparities and mental health services’ disparities. To move the field forward, future research effort with APIs should focus on articulating variations across different API subgroups, identifying what explains such variations, and examining the implications of such variations to research, practice, education, and policy.