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A Balancing Act: Integrating Evidence-Based Knowledge And Cultural Relevance In A Program Of Prevention Parenting Research With Latino/A Immigrants, José Rubén Parra-Cardona, Gabriela López-Zerón, Melanie M. Domenech-Rodriguez, Ana Rocío Escobar-Chew, Michael R. Whitehead, Cris M. Sullivan, Guillermo Bernal
A Balancing Act: Integrating Evidence-Based Knowledge And Cultural Relevance In A Program Of Prevention Parenting Research With Latino/A Immigrants, José Rubén Parra-Cardona, Gabriela López-Zerón, Melanie M. Domenech-Rodriguez, Ana Rocío Escobar-Chew, Michael R. Whitehead, Cris M. Sullivan, Guillermo Bernal
Psychology Faculty Publications
Family therapists have a unique opportunity to contribute toward the reduction of widespread mental health disparities impacting diverse populations by developing applied lines of research focused on cultural adaptation. For example, although evidence-based prevention parent training (PT) interventions have been found to be efficacious with various Euro-American populations, there is a pressing need to understand which specific components of PT interventions are perceived by ethnic minority parents as having the highest impact on their parenting practices. Equally important is to examine the perceived cultural relevance of adapted PT interventions. This qualitative investigation had the primary objective of comparing and contrasting …