Much research focuses on the western family unit, but more research around south Asian families, the dynamics at play, the migrant experience and various factors relevant to our community has emerged. Below we have compiled research more relevant to the south Asian family. useful to therapists looking for

Therapy models and approaches

• Bhangra: An Integrative Counselling Technique for the South Asian Community By Janjua, Herman
• Enhancing the Quality of South Asian Marriage Through Systemic-Constructivist Couple Therapy (SCCT): Investigating The Role of Couple Identity in Marital Satisfaction By Saunia Ahmed
• Music Therapy in the South Asian American Diaspora By Sangeeta Swamy
• Psychotherapy with South Asian Women: Dilemmas of the Immigrant and First Generations By Pratyusha Tummala-Narra 
• Spirituality-Based Counseling Improves Family Relationships and Quality of Life among Cohabiting South Asian Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law By Samta P Pandya

Migrant experience

• Acculturation and ethnic identity in marginal immigrant South Asian men in Britain: A psychotherapeutic perspective By Dhillon K & Ubhi M
• Feminist Therapy: Its Use and Implications for South Asian Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence By Diya Kallivayalil
• Group Counseling with South Asian Immigrant High School Girls: Reflections and Commentary of a Group Facilitator By Thakore-Dunlap, U and Van Velsor, P
• Straddling the Cultural Divide: Second Generation South Asian Canadian Secondary Students Negotiate Cultural Identity Through Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction By Farha D Shariff