title: Filial therapy for children's behavioral and emotional problems in mainland China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Filial therapy as a therapeutic intervention to promote parent-child interaction and improve child's behavior across culture.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To review the state of the science of filial therapy and explore whether filial therapy would be an effective parenting program in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four research articles related to the impact of filial therapy, used with Chinese immigrants, Koreans, and Native Americans, were located in a search of nursing, medical, psychological, and social science literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings indicated that filial therapy is a culturally sensitive and effective intervention. The overall limitations, some recommendations for future research, and the discussion of efficacy of filial therapy in China were provided.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. yg4@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Yuqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004493:Education; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D012649:Self Concept