This paper will review the predominant models developed by researchers to assess the psychological adaptation of immigrants in the host society. The use of ihe terms assimilation and acculturation, to reflect the process of change undergone by immigrants, will be discussed. Although these terms have been used interchangeably, the outcome of change is very different in each. Ihe difference between assimilation and acculturation is reflected in the models of adaptation regrouped under linear and bidimcnsional models. A third model, called orthogonal cultural identification, is presented in light of the criticisms made of the first two types of models.
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While severely and persistently depressed patients were prone to express maladaptive interpersonal dispositions, over the course of group therapy, they showed increasingly agentic and beneficial patterns of cognitions, motives, and behaviors.
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