Cultural Sensitivity and Adaptation in Family-Based Prevention Interventions

By K. Kumpfer, R. Alvarado, Paula Smith, N. Bellamy. Prevention Science, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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Effective recruitment and retention of minority research participants. (2006, background): “(60) reviewed four studies comparing outcomes of generic and culturally adapted interventions to enhance family cohesiveness targeting urban and rural African American, Hispanic, and Ojibwa Indian substance abusers and their children.”
Best Practice Guidelines on Prevention Practice, Research, Training, and Social Advocacy for Psychologists (2007, background): “Yet many prevention programs emphasize Western values and were developed and validated in middle-class communities (Kumpfer et al., 2002; Vera & Reese, 2000).”
Making the Case for Selective and Directed Cultural Adaptations of Evidence-Based Treatments: Examples From Parent Training (2006, background): “A vital observation is that adaptations that effectively reduce dosage of the standard behavioral strategies or eliminate critical content can reduce positive outcomes (Castro et al., 2004; Kumpfer et al., 2002).”
The Cultural Adaptation of Prevention Interventions: Resolving Tensions Between Fidelity and Fit (2004, background): “By implication, prevention interventions that are “culturally blind” will fail to prompt community participation, likely eroding program outcome effects (Kumpfer et al., 2002).”
Considering Culturally Relevant Parenting Practices in Intervention Development and Adaptation (2007, background): “These results are consistent with the extant literature highlighting the potential benefit of tailored services in both the amelioration of risk and the fostering of resilience in Black/African American families (Kumpfer et al., 2002; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001a).”
Is the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program Acceptable to Parents from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds? (2011, background): “…for parents or children of culturally diverse backgrounds, and some studies have found negative outcomes for parents where practitioners have eliminated important content or reduced the number of behavioural strategies in order to adapt the program (Castro et al. 2004; Kumpfer et al. 2002).”