Family Psychology and Cultural Diversity: Opportunities for Theory, Research, and Application

This article builds on the authors' work with troubled Hispanic youth and their families to extend the concept of contextualism. First, it discusses family and culture as literatures that have emerged from a contextualist perspective but are separate from each other. Second, it integrates these...

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Published in:The American psychologist 1993-04, Vol.48 (4), p.400-407
Main Authors: Szapocznik, José, Kurtines, William M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cultural Diversity
Culture (Anthropological)
Families
Family
Family Members
Family Relations
Hispanic American people
Hispanics
Human
Latinos/Latinas
Psychology
Young people
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Summary:This article builds on the authors' work with troubled Hispanic youth and their families to extend the concept of contextualism. First, it discusses family and culture as literatures that have emerged from a contextualist perspective but are separate from each other. Second, it integrates these literatures by introducing the concept of the embeddedness of the individual within the context of the family within the context of culture. Finally, this concept of the embeddedness of contexts is extended to encompass a view of families embedded within culturally diverse contexts.
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.48.4.400