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Defining culturally appropriate community interventions: Hispanics as a case study
Author(s) -
Marín Gerardo
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(199304)21:2<149::aid-jcop2290210207>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , ethnic group , intervention (counseling) , psychology , social psychology , racial group , cultural group selection , cultural diversity , predicate (mathematical logic) , clinical psychology , sociology , psychiatry , computer science , anthropology , programming language
This article proposes three components that are needed in order to develop communitywide change interventions that are culturally appropriate or group‐specific. The basis for the development of targeted group‐specific interventions is the quickly accumulating evidence that shows that ethnic and/or racial groups differ in terms of their cultural values, norms, expectancies, and attitudes. These differences predicate the notion that in order to be effective, community interventions need to take into consideration the specific characteristics of the group being targeted. Culturally appropriate community interventions are defined, therefore, as meeting each of the following characteristics: (a) The intervention is based on the cultural values of the group, (b) the strategies that make up the intervention reflect the subjective culture (attitudes, expectancies, norms) of the group, and (c) the components that make up the strategies reflect the behavioral preferences and expectations of the group's members. The implications of this definition for the development of a culturally appropriate intervention for Hispanics are also discussed.