Patience is a virtue.

Keep away from being straightforward.

Develop a Rapport.

Providing a solution-focused approach.

Educate the client on the counseling process.

Be compassionate and attentive.

Pay attention to overall body language as this can play an integral role in the therapeutic process.

Migration to the U.S. has opened doors. Such as better healthcare, housing opportunities, and protection of children from deportation.

Language barriers, institutional barriers, and post-immigrant adjustments still exist.

Funding and more educational opportunities.

Identity

Value family

Social stigma influences non-participation in treatment.

Gender roles are a key component with men having more authority.

Practices include Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and other faiths.

Pay attention to body language, and self-control, but refrain from direct eye contact.

Refrain from being blunt.

Recognize the client's perspective.

Set clear but firm goals.

Ensure that the client feels equal in power throughout the counseling process.

Respect

Be familiar with Asian approaches to healing that could be different than the intervention you provide.

Controversy over racial profiling with elite admissions into Universities.

"The model minority myth is the perception of high academic and economic achievement among Asian Americans".

Healthy Immigrants -due to the lack of reporting

Using words such as foreigner without care of how long they've lived in the U.S.

Glass Ceiling Effect

Individualized racism