Race, Culture, and Ethnicity: Implications for a Community Intervention |
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| Authors: | Velma M. Murry Beth A. Kotchick Scyatta Wallace Bethany Ketchen Kenya Eddings Laurie Heller Ida Collier |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens, GA;(2) Psychology Department, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, MD;(3) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA;(4) Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA;(5) Parents Matter! Program, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR;(6) Parents Matter! Program, University of Georgia, Athens, GA;(7) Parents Matter! Program, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR |
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| Abstract: | We present an overview of research on African American families and emphasize in this discussion limitations of approaches used in the past to study African American families. We also discuss and identify challenges for designing and implementing community, family-based programs targeting competence-promoting behaviors in African American families. In addition, we attempt to accomplish the following objectives: (1) identify themes in studies of African American families, including bias in prior research; (2) discuss ways in which prior approaches and conceptual models guiding studies of African Americans have created challenges for the development and implementation of community-based intervention and research programs; and (3) present the Parents Matter! Program as an example of a community-based prevention effort that attempted to overcome many of the challenges created by prior research efforts. |
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| Keywords: | Parents Matter! Program historical perspectives African American families prevention and intervention approaches family-based prevention |
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