This is a culturally tailored program for Latino immigrant parents and their children with a history of mild to moderate behavioral problems. The objective is to promote a positive parent-child relationship, develop children’s social and emotional skills, reduce antisocial behaviors through effective interventions, intensify parental supervision of children, and assist families in negotiation and problem-solving.
The program combines cultural elements associated with the immigrant experience, such as notions of “coping” and “education,” with five intervention components:
1) Skills incentive;
2) Problem-solving;
3) Positive engagement;
4) Boundary-setting; and
5) Monitoring.
The intervention is implemented in 12 sessions over 12 weeks in individual and group formats, plus two additional sessions on immigration and biculturality, and two additional parental training sessions.