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- Title
Advances in Latino Family Research: Cultural Adaptations of Evidence-Based Interventions.
- Authors
BERNAL, GUILLERMO; DOMENECH RODRÍGUEZ, MELANIE M.
- Abstract
The stark contrast between frequent calls for research and practice that are applicable across a broad spectrum of cultural and ethnically diverse groups and the dearth of empirical knowledge about Latino families provided the impetus for this special issue on advances in Latino family research. A focus on empirically based practice frames the issue, focusing specifically on how concepts (expressed emotion, parenting style) can be used within interventions, how Latino parents perceive efforts to deliver evidence-based interventions, and how pilot projects that delivered culturally adapted interventions in three separate cities impacted family functioning. In all, the introduction highlights the complexities for researchers in meeting the needs of the field to ensure that effective interventions are applicable across cultural groups. Meeting the challenges is important to address the need of the growing Latino population. Advances in intervention research with ethnic minorities also stand to contribute to the advancement of intervention research broadly. This special issue provides examples of efforts that are underway to better understand what treatments work for Latino families, provided by whom, for what specific problems, and in which specific circumstances, paving the way to begin attempting to answer a challenge posed more than 40 years ago by Gordon Paul.
- Subjects
HISPANIC Americans; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; ETHNIC groups; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); FAMILIES; CULTURAL pluralism; PARENTING; PARENT-child relationships; EMOTIONS
- Publication
Family Process, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01275.x