Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds
Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds
A Bicultural Skills Training Prevention Program to Help Immigrant Families Cope with Acculturation Stress
This chapter examines how bicultural skills training might be used within prevention programs to help Latino immigrant families cope with acculturation stress. In particular, it describes the Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds bicultural skills training model designed to help Latino families adjust to life in the United States and avoid the stress and problems associated with assimilation. The chapter begins with an overview of acculturation-based prevention and intervention programs as well as bicultural skills training before turning to the Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds bicultural skills training model. It explains Entre Dos Mundos's theoretical background and its key concepts, including action-oriented groups that use a variety of psychodrama techniques such as role reversal, doubling, mirroring, and empty chair. It also discusses the results of an experimental trial of Entre Dos Mundos and concludes with an assessment of how the health and well-being of immigrant families are influenced by ethnic identity and familism, bicultural identity integration, and parent-adolescent cultural conflict and discrimination experiences.
Keywords: bicultural skills training, Latino immigrant families, acculturation stress, Entre Dos Mundos, assimilation, acculturation, action-oriented groups, ethnic identity, familism, bicultural identity integration
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