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A Culturally Adapted Intervention for Mexican‐Origin Parents of Adolescents: The Need to Overtly Address Culture and Discrimination in Evidence‐Based Practice
Author(s) -
ParraCardona Rubén,
LópezZerón Gabriela,
Leija Silvia Gisela,
Maas Megan K.,
Villa Monica,
Zamudio Efraín,
Arredondo Melecia,
Yeh HsuehHan,
Domenech Rodríguez Melanie M.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/famp.12381
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , immigration , psychology , intervention (counseling) , mental health , acculturation , focus group , biculturalism , qualitative research , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , sociology , political science , social science , anthropology , law , neuroscience , neuroscience of multilingualism
Latino/a populations in the United States are negatively impacted by widespread mental health disparities. Although the dissemination of culturally relevant parent training ( PT ) programs constitutes an alternative to address this problem, there is a limited number of efficacious culturally adapted PT prevention interventions for low‐income Latino/a immigrant families with adolescents. The current manuscript describes the level of acceptability of a version of the Generation PMTO ® intervention adapted for Latino/a immigrant families, with an explicit focus on immigration‐related challenges, discrimination, and promotion of biculturalism. Qualitative reports were provided by 39 immigrant parents who successfully completed the prevention parenting program. The majority of these parents self‐identified as Mexican‐origin. According to qualitative findings, participants reported overall high satisfaction with immigration and culture‐specific components. Parents also expressed high satisfaction with the core Generation PMTO parenting components and provided specific recommendations for improving the intervention. Current findings indicate the need to adhere to the core components that account for the effectiveness of PT interventions. Equally important is to thoroughly adapt PT interventions according to the cultural values and experiences that are relevant to target populations, as well as to overtly address experiences of discrimination that negatively impact underserved Mexican‐origin immigrant families. Due to the exploratory nature of this study, the efficacy and effectiveness of the adapted prevention intervention remains to be established in empirical research.