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Understanding and Counseling Korean Americans: Implications for Training

✍ Scribed by CATHERINE Y. CHANG; JANE E. MYERS

Publisher
American Counseling Association
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
951 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0011-0035

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✦ Synopsis

Korean Americans are a growing subgroup of the U.S. population with distinct characteristics and counseling needs. These characteristics and needs are considered and implications for counselor training are explored.

Asian and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing minority group in the United States (Gould, 1988). In 1990, there were over 7.4 million Asian and Pacific Islanders living in this country. It is estimated that by the year 2000, this number will grow to more than 12,000, and by the year 2050, the increase will be to over 40 million (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995). There are over 29 distinct subgroups that comprise this population, including persons of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Thai, Hmong, Pakistani, and Korean cultures (Moy, 1992). Within the population of Asian and Pacific Islanders, Korean Americans are one of the most rapidly increasing immigrant groups (Kim & Rew, 1994). Of the 7.4 million persons in the total Asian and Pacific Islander population in 1990, 800.000 (1 1%) were Korean Americans (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995).

Although the number of Asian and Pacific Islanders is increasing, an understanding of these individuals and groups remains limited (Nah, 1993). One reason for this situation is the extreme diversity within and between subgroups of the total population. In fact, among ethnic groups, there is as much between-group variation as within-group variation among Asian Americans (Leong, 1986). The varying circumstances of Asian American populations, Catherine Y; Chang i s a doctoral student, and Jane E. Myers i s a professor; both i n the Department of Counseling and Educational Development at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

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