Developing culturally effective family-based research programs: implications for family therapists.
Recently, some family scholars have developed greater sensitivity to the relative neglect of families of color in clinical and empirical research. Consequently, a proliferation of research elucidating many nuances of ethnic families has come to the forefront, containing a wealth of knowledge with useful implications for family therapists and other mental health providers. The findings of these studies hold enormously important implications for how family therapists can better engage and accommodate families of color in therapy. In this article we discuss some of the etiological and methodological issues associated with planning, conducting, and disseminating family-based prevention and intervention research programs with ethnic minority families.
Turner
William L
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Department of Family Social Science, College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, USA. wlturner@che.umn.edu
Wieling
Elizabeth
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Allen
William D
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D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005006:Ethnicity; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008388:Marital Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D008913:Minority Groups; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012107:Research Design; D014481:United States