Conceptualizing alcohol treatment research for Hispanic/Latino adolescents.
This paper briefly reviews the Community-Based Intervention Research Group's ongoing efforts in conceptualizing alcohol treatment research for Hispanic/Latino adolescents. I begin by defining Empirically Supported Therapies (ESTs), Developmentally Sensitive Therapies (DSTs), and Culturally Sensitive Therapies (DSTs). I then argue that these three perspectives need to be integrated for the field to advance. Next, I discuss the complexities inherent in the integration of EST, DST, and CST, and suggest a 'flexible core approach' may be the most feasible and promising approach to integration. Finally, I introduce the concept of 'amenability to treatment' and describe how it may be applied to understanding how race/ethnicity-related variables may influence response to treatment.
Wagner
Eric F
EF
Community-Based Intervention Research Group, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA. eric.wagner@fu.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans