Developing Culturally Responsive Treatments for Children

Principal Investigator

• Kristen McCabe

Funding

• NIMH
  • 8/2000 - 7/2004; $564,018

Project Description

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

1. 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.
2. 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.