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Towards Culturally Relevant Preventive Interventions: The Consideration of Racial Socialization in Parent Training with African American Families

Journal of Child and Family Studies volume 13, pages 277–293 (2004)Cite this article

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We present a rationale for the inclusion of culture-based parenting practices (i.e., racial socialization) in the design and implementation of empirically based parenting programs with African American families. We begin with a discussion of the limitations of the current parent training literature related to cultural considerations. Second, we examine the cultural and racial contexts of parenting for African Americans, review the literature on racial socialization, and discuss empirical support for considering its inclusion in parent training programs. Third, we examine the extent to which racial socialization operates in low-income African American families by presenting the findings from a qualitative pilot. We conclude by discussing how findings from the qualitative pilot might inform intervention efforts.

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  1. Research Scholar, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC

    Stephanie I. Coard

  2. Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Atlanta, GA

    Scyatta A. Wallace

  3. Associate Professor, School, Community, and Clinical Child Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development Programs, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    Howard C. Stevenson Jr.

  4. Associate Professor, Child Study Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

    Laurie M. Brotman

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Coard, S.I., Wallace, S.A., Stevenson, H.C. et al. Towards Culturally Relevant Preventive Interventions: The Consideration of Racial Socialization in Parent Training with African American Families. Journal of Child and Family Studies 13, 277–293 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JCFS.0000022035.07171.f8

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  • parent training
  • racial socialization
  • cultural relevance
  • African American families