Reflections on adapting parent training for Chinese immigrants: Blind alleys, thoroughfares, and test drives.
Reflections on adapting parent training for Chinese immigrants: Blind alleys, thoroughfares, and test drives.
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针对中国移民调整家长培训的思考:死胡同、大道和试驾。
作者:
A. Lau
Being raised in a context outside the White American middle-class experience can lead an interventionist to approach parent training (PT) dissemination with some trepidation about the fit of standard practice with the sensibilities of immigrant families. How would my own immigrant Chinese parents have responded to this guidance in childrearing? How would specific PT practices be viewed, and how could they be encouraged in families who may be wary of or wholly unaccustomed to these strategies? I have previously argued that cultural adaptations should be guided by data that inform the design of specific content or process adaptations (Lau, 2006). This would safeguard against less defensible, improvised drifts away from fidelity that may be inert or even detrimental to treatment outcomes. For example, displacing skills training to include discussion of cultural values decreased the efficacy of the Strengthening Families Program adapted for Asian American and Latino families (Kumpfer, Alvarado, Smith, & Bellamy, 2002). Accordingly, we conducted a series of studies to inform adaptations that would be relevant and responsive to the needs of Chinese Americans. This chapter includes reflections on the research pursuits that proved fruitful and those that did not. In this chapter, we discuss the path traversed to our revised hypotheses about promising strategies for optimizing PT for immigrant Chinese families. This path had some blind alleys and detours, but thankfully some thoroughfares, too.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)