ABSTRACT

Limited psychological research has disaggregated the experiences of Asian American (AA) from international Asian (IA) college students seeking psychotherapy. When combined, important differences between these groups are overlooked. We examined archival data collected from AA, IA, and European American (EA) students at a large, Western, university counseling center. Results indicated no significant differences between groups related to maximum number of psychotherapy sessions attended or likelihood of treatment discontinuance. However, we found significant differences between these groups on a number of items related to presenting concerns and to severity of presenting distress, with IA students presenting with the most distress, followed by AA, and finally EA. We also found significant differences between groups in treatment improvement, with EA students experiencing most improvement, followed by AA, and IA students. Future research should continue to investigate how specific concerns and experiences of AA and IA students are similar and different.

摘要

有限的心理学研究已经从寻求心理治疗的国际亚裔（IA）大学生中分列了亚裔（AA）的经历。当合并在一起时，这些组之间的重要差异就被忽略了。我们在一个大型的西方大学咨询中心检查了从AA，IA和欧洲裔（EA）学生那里收集的档案数据。结果表明，与参加心理治疗的最大次数或停止治疗的可能性有关的组之间无显着差异。但是，我们发现这些组之间在与表达担忧和表达困扰的严重程度相关的许多项目上存在显着差异，其中IA学生表现出最大的困扰，其次是AA，最后是EA。我们还发现各组在治疗改善方面存在显着差异，EA学生的进步最大，其次是AA和IA学生。未来的研究应继续调查AA和IA学生的具体关注点和经历是如何相似和不同的。