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Behavioral health problems in children and adolescents are increasing in the
USA and worldwide. This chapter will begin by covering the history and
possible causes of changes in the traditional two-parent family structure and its
negative impact on childrenās development and health. These structural family
changes resulted in changes in family functioning with the loss of fathers,
resulting in increased family poverty and reduced parental involvement.
Solutions including broader implementation of the family interventions proven
to increase family nurturing and improve childrenās behavioral health outcomes
will be reviewed including their effectiveness results. These family evidencebased
interventions also reduce differential generational acculturation and
family conflict prevalent when families from one traditional culture move into
a less traditional Western culture. The need for cultural adaptation to increase
acceptability and dissemination capacity of health promotion programs is
stressed. Despite 20 years of randomized control trial research on evidencebased
family interventions, there is a research to practice gap depriving families
of the best family services and increasing social and health-care costs. Hence,
this chapter ends with policy recommendations to have a broader public health
impact including using computer information technology to reduce the cost and
increase dissemination of effective health promotion and family interventions.
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health familie
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Springer