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Principal Investigator: Kristen
McCabe
Funding: NIMH (8/2000 - 7/2004; $564,018)
The ultimate goal of this Mentored Career Development Award
(K01) is to establish an independent program of research focused
on developing and testing culturally responsive interventions
for young minority children. The immediate research goal of
this award is to modify Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT),
an efficacious intervention for young behavior-disordered
children (age 2-7), to be more culturally responsive to Mexican
American families. The research plan for this award is divided
into two phases. First, the PCIT intervention will be modified
to be culturally appropriate and tested for feasibility with
a small number (N=5) of Mexican American children with behavior
disorders. Second, a pilot effectiveness trial comparing Modified
PCIT to Standard PCIT and treatment as usual will be conducted
with 75 Mexican American families presenting for treatment
of disruptive behavior disorders at a community clinic. The
results of the final phase will provide preliminary data on
whether culturally based modifications to treatments can improve
outcomes and will provide a model for the cultural modification
of treatments for a range of ethnic minority groups.
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2007
CASRC