137). On the other hand, family therapists working with Asian Americans have found the structural approach, combined with strategic interventions, helpful (Hays, 2008, p. 185). Sciarra (1999) found that SFT was effective in helping immigrant families experiencing intrafamily separation and reunification (para. 1). For example, parents who arrive in the United States before their children often expect their reunited children to be immediately happy and grateful and feel helpless and victimized by their children's negative behavior, causing dysfunction in the family hierarchy (para. 4). Bicultural effectiveness training, used in the context of SFT, reframes the conflict between reunited immigrant parents and children as a conflict between cultures, and the result of this training is the “transition from intergenerational dysfunction to bicultural effectiveness” (par..