Permission to come home : reclaiming mental health as Asian Americans

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Personal Author:

Wang, Jenny T.

Edition:

First Edition.

Physical Description:

xi, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary:

"The first of its kind, Permission to Come Home is a crucial resource for the rapidly growing community of Asian Americans, immigrants, and other minorities and marginalized people to practice mental and emotional self-care. This book helps readers work on their mental health while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage and embodying a new, complete, and whole identity. Throughout, Dr. Jenny Wang weaves together personal stories of strength, pain, and resilience with incisive analysis of Asian American and immigrant identities and how they affect our individual and collective mental health"--

Contents:

Introduction -- Permission to question -- Permission to feel -- Permission to rage -- Permission to say no -- Permission to take up space -- Permission to choose -- Permission to fail -- Permission to play -- Permission to grieve -- Permission to come home -- Final thoughts -- Resources -- Appendix: Example of core values -- Reading group guide.

Subject Term:

Asian Americans -- Mental health -- United States.

Immigrants -- Mental health -- United States.

Minorities -- Mental health -- United States.

Self-care, Health

Publication Info:

New York, NY : Balance, 2022.

Subject:

Asian Americans -- Mental health -- United States.

Immigrants -- Mental health -- United States.

Minorities -- Mental health -- United States.

Self-care, Health

Asian Americans -- United States

Emigrants

Foreign-born population

Foreign population

Foreigners

Migrants

Ethnic minorities

Minority groups

Health care, Self

Health self-care

Medical self-care

Self-care, Medical

Self health care

Self-help, Health

SAILS ISBN:

9781538708002

Available:

Library	Shelf Number	Shelf Location	Status
Searching... New Bedford Free Public Library	362.2089 WAN 2022	NONFICTION	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community.

Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today--they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services.

Permission to Come Home takes Asian Americans on an empowering journey toward reclaiming their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American together with her insights as a clinician and evidence-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang explores a range of life areas that call for attention, offering readers the permission to question, feel, rage, say no, take up space, choose, play, fail, and grieve. Above all, she offers permission to return closer to home, a place of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom. For Asian Americans and Diaspora, this book is a necessary road map for the journey to wholeness.

"Dr. Jenny T. Wang has been an incredible resource for Asian mental health. I believe that her knowledge, presence, and activism for mental health in the Asian American/Immigrant community have been invaluable and groundbreaking. I am so very grateful that she exists." --Steven Yeun, actor, The Walking Dead and Minari

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Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Clinical psychologist Wang debuts with an edifying examination of how cultural expectations impact Asian Americans' mental health. "When we are able to visualize the frameworks restricting us, we are then able to access the freedom to choose something different," Wang writes, inviting Asian Americans to probe cultural assumptions and narratives by exploring points of tension and discomfort, and describing experiences common to diaspora. For example, Wang notes that white supremacy imposes the "fear-based framework" that Asian Americans should refrain from "taking up space" and be "quiet" and "compliant." The author encourages readers to step outside these limitations by articulating what makes them afraid, identifying small ways to start taking up more space, attending to how others respond to their actions, and developing a support system. Other chapters urge readers to permit themselves to "rage," "play," and "say no," and provide steps to achieve these goals. Wang's jargon-free prose and psychology-backed explanations elevate her recommendations, such as when she cites research showing how emotionality improves decision-making and warns against idealizing stoicism. This is a timely and insightful reconsideration of mental health in the Asian American community. Agent: Charles Kim, Serendipity Literary. (May)

Introduction	p. ix
Chapter 1 Permission to Question	p. 1
Chapter 2 Permission to Feel	p. 27
Chapter 3 Permission to Rage	p. 57
Chapter 4 Permission to Say No	p. 83
Chapter 5 Permission to Take Up Space	p. 115
Chapter 6 Permission to Choose	p. 137
Chapter 7 Permission to Fail	p. 165
Chapter 8 Permission to Play	p. 189
Chapter 9 Permission to Grieve	p. 211
Chapter 10 Permission to Come Home	p. 239
Conclusion: Final Thoughts	p. 262
Resources	p. 264
References	p. 267
Appendix: Examples of Core Values	p. 269
Acknowledgments	p. 270
Reading Group Guide	p. 273
About the Author	p. 276

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