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- Cultural Adaptation and Implementation of Family Evidence-Based Interventions with Diverse PopulationsPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Xie, JingFamily evidence-based interventions (FEBIs) are effective in creating lasting improvements and preventing children’s behavioral health problems, even in genetically atrisk children. Most FEBIs, however, were designed for English-speaking families. Consequently, providers have difficulty engaging non-English-speaking populations in their own country or in other countries where the content, language, and recruitment methods of the FEBIs do not reflect their culture. The practical solution has been to culturally adapt existing FEBIs. Research suggests this can increase family engagement by about 40 %. This article covers background, theory, and research on FEBIs and the need to engage more diverse families. Steps for culturally adapting FEBIs with fidelity are presented based on our own and local implementers’ experiences in 36 countries with the Strengthening Families Program. These steps, also previously recommended by a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime panel of experts in family skills interventions, include: (1) creating a cultural advisory group, (2) assessing specific needs of cultural subgroups, (3) language translation, (4) hiring implementers from the culture, (5) developing culturally adapted training systems, (6) making cultural adaptations cautiously during repeated delivery, (7) continuous implementation quality and outcome evaluation to assure effectiveness in comparison with the original FEBI, (8) developing local and international dissemination partnerships, and (9) securing funding support for sustainability. Future efficacy trials should compare existing FEBIs to culturally adapted versions to determine comparative cost effectiveness.
- Cultural adaptations of evidence-based family interventions to strengthen families and improve children’s developmental outcomes.Publication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Xie, JingEvidence-based parenting and family interventions are effective in improving parenting skills, positive parent–child relations and children's developmental outcomes. Programmes based on “principles of effective prevention” do not prove that a programme works. Evidence-based programmes (EBPs) are programmes tested in multiple randomized control trials by different researchers and producing large effect sizes. Hence, selecting a family EBP that best matches the local family needs and culturally adapting is the best route to positive family outcomes versus creating a new unproven programme. Lists of EBPs include the author's recent UNODC worldwide search and www.strengtheningfamilies.org. This article includes recommendations for culturally adapting and implementing a family EBP in diverse cultures plus lessons learned from dissemination of the author's Strengthening Families Programme (SFP) to 22 countries. These include ideas for developing local and international partnerships, language translations, developing new training systems and materials, and funding support from developed nations for the implementation and evaluation.
- Cultural and Gender Adaptations of Evidence Based Family InterventionsPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Xie, JingThis chapter will review culturally and gender-adapted evidence-based family prevention and intervention programs. The growing ethnic populations in the USA and other Western countries have created the need for the development and evaluation of culturally adapted programs. The rapid spread worldwide of Western youth culture has also made effective parenting more critical to youth outcomes in non-Western cultures, requiring an extension of the evidence base for family programs to include populations in Europe, Asia, and Africa
- Strengthening Families For Middle/Late ChildhoodPublication . Kumpfer, Karol; Magalhães, Cátia; Whiteside, Henry; Xie, Jing