Evaluating the Feasibility of the Incredible Years Attentive Parenting Program as a Universal Prevention for Racially Diverse Populations

SummaryParenting training (PT) can be implemented as prevention or intervention to effectively address children’s behavioral and psychosocial problems. In the current study, we described the implementation of the newly developed Incredible Years (IY) Attentive Parenting Program as a universal/primary prevention in a community mental health setting with racially diverse families, as well as evaluated its feasibility in terms of the attendance and treatment outcomes. In a pre-post design, 152 parents with 3- to 6- year-old children participated in the IY Attentive Parenting Program. FindingsParents reported a significant reduction of emotional problems and conduct problems in their children. Minimal differences among demographic factors (i.e., race and gender) were found in parents’ attendance, parenting stress, as well as children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms and prosocial behaviors.ApplicationThe current study provided the empirical support for the feasibility of the recently developed Incredible Years Attentive Parenting Program as a universal prevention implementation with racially diverse families.

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Evaluating the Feasibility of the Incredible Years Attentive Parenting Program as Universal Prevention for Racially Diverse Populations

Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion ◽

10.1177/2632077020976401 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 263207702097640

Author(s):

Xiang Zhou ◽

Richard M. Lee ◽

Judy Ohm

Keyword(s):

Prevention Program ◽

Psychosocial Problems ◽

Prosocial Behaviors ◽

Parenting Program ◽

Universal Prevention ◽

Incredible Years ◽

Racially Diverse ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Child Externalizing Behaviors ◽

The Incredible Years

Parenting training (PT) can be implemented as a prevention program to effectively address children’s behavioral and psychosocial problems. In the current feasibility study, we implemented the Incredible Years (IY) Attentive Parenting Program as universal/primary prevention in a community mental health setting with racially diverse families. We evaluated the attendance and treatment outcomes in a one-group pre–post design. A total of 152 parents (88% mothers; 81% non-White) participated in the IY Attentive Parenting Program. Parents who completed the program reported a significant decrease in conduct problems and an increase in prosocial behaviors in their children. Minimal differences among race and gender were found in parents’ attendance, parenting stress, and children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms and prosocial behaviors. However, pretreatment child externalizing behaviors predicted parents’ attendance. The study provides preliminary support for the feasibility of the recently developed IY Attentive Parenting Program as a universal prevention program for behavioral and psychosocial problems in children.

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Epilogue

Your Sister in the Gospel ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199338665.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 134-138

Author(s):

Quincy D. Newell

Keyword(s):

Latter Day Saints ◽

Racially Diverse ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Joseph Smith ◽

Mormon History ◽

History Of ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

And Gender ◽

Ways Of Being ◽

Late Twentieth Century

After her death, Jane James faded into obscurity until the late twentieth century, when she gained new fame. Mormons used her story to reimagine their church as racially diverse and Joseph Smith as racially egalitarian. For historians of American religion and others, James’s story gives the history of Mormonism from below and shows the limits of Mormonism’s democratizing impulse. It illustrates the variety of Mormon religious experience and shows the limits of focusing on temple rituals and priesthood. James’s Mormonism differed from that of other Latter-day Saints and thus illustrates how race and gender shaped ways of being Mormon. James also shaped Mormon history in subtle but crucial ways. Her presence in present-day LDS discourses suggests that she has finally achieved what she worked so hard for during her life: Mormons of all races now hold her in “honourable remembrance,” as her second patriarchal blessing promised her.

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The Intersectional Effects of Diverse Elections on Validated Turnout in the 2018 Midterm Elections

Political Research Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1065912920945781 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (4) ◽

pp. 988-1003 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vladimir E. Medenica ◽

Matthew Fowler

Keyword(s):

Voter Turnout ◽

Racial Diversity ◽

The United States ◽

Demographic Information ◽

Racially Diverse ◽

Data Set ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Gender Influence ◽

Midterm Elections ◽

And Gender

The 2018 midterm elections in the United States were unprecedented in their gender and racial diversity. Voters across the country, especially younger voters, elected the most diverse U.S. Congress in history. Despite increased electoral diversity along lines of gender, race, and the intersections of both, extant literature has remained siloed, focusing on the effect of either gender or race on turnout but rarely examining both in relation to one another. Using a novel data set of racially diverse young adults that includes demographic information for congressional candidates and vote-validated data, this study investigates how the intersection of race and gender influence voter turnout across diverse electoral contexts. Our study provides important insights for both unpacking the 2018 elections and more generally understanding how race and gender interact to influence youth voter turnout as candidate profiles and electoral contexts continue to diversify.

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Gender Matters: The Perceived Role of Gender Expression in Discrimination Against Cisgender and Transgender LGBQ Individuals

Psychology of Women Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0361684320929354 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 323-341

Author(s):

Steph M. Anderson

Keyword(s):

Sexual Orientation ◽

Thematic Analysis ◽

Meaning Making ◽

National Sample ◽

Racially Diverse ◽

Gender Ideologies ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Gender Expression ◽

And Gender

Although violation of gender norms has been discussed as a fundamental component of and underlying foundation for anti-queer discrimination, less research has directly attended to how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals interpret the role of gender expression in discriminatory experiences. Based upon a racially diverse national sample of 138 cisgender and transgender LGBQ individuals, I discuss results from a content and thematic analysis of discrimination narratives. Findings reveal the centrality of gender expression—how one embodies masculinity and femininity—within participant stories. While gender expression was central to meaning-making among all participants, the type of discrimination experienced and participants’ interpretation of the events depended on whether their gender expression “revealed” or “concealed” their queerness. Race and gender identity also informed participants’ interpretations, underscoring the need for greater attention to how gender norm expectations are racialized and cisnormative. These findings challenge the conceptualization of sexual orientation as an “invisible” identity and the notion of “passing” (i.e., being perceived as straight) as a uniform privilege for some LGBQ individuals. Instead, these results situate the perception of sexual orientation as context-dependent and highlight the need for advocacy efforts that identify and challenge strict gender ideologies, in particular gender binaries.

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The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Rap Music Perceptions: A Content Validation Study of the Rap-Music Attitude and Perception Scale

Urban Social Work ◽

10.1891/2474-8684.3.1.25 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 25-50

Author(s):

Edgar H. Tyson ◽

Tiffany L. Brown ◽

Antoine Lovell

Keyword(s):

Hip Hop ◽

Rap Music ◽

Group Differences ◽

Racially Diverse ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Music Attitude ◽

Development Approach ◽

And Gender ◽

Qualitative Responses ◽

Insight Into

ObjectivesThis study examines the content validity of a newly developed measure, the Rap-Music Attitude and Perception (RAP) scale.MethodsUtilizing data from a racially diverse sample of undergraduate college students (N= 871), this investigation highlights an underutilized mixed method, qualitative–quantitative scale development approach, while investigating relationships between race, gender, and rap music views.FindingsResults indicate overlap between themes identified in participants' qualitative responses and RAP scale items. Furthermore, there were several within and between (race and gender) group differences in the endorsement of RAP scale items.ConclusionsImplications of these results support the utility of the RAP for examining perceptions of rap music and provide insight into how the intersection of race and gender relates to hip-hop music themes.

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Queer solidarities: New activisms erupting at the intersection of structural precarity and radical misrecognition

Journal of Social and Political Psychology ◽

10.5964/jspp.v6i2.905 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 608-630 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Michelle Fine ◽

María Elena Torre ◽

David M. Frost ◽

Allison L. Cabana

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

The United States ◽

State Violence ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Racially Diverse ◽

Race And Gender ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship ◽

Research Collective ◽

Inclusive Sample

This article investigates the relationship between exposure to structural injustice, experiences of social discrimination, psychological well being, physical health, and engagement in activist solidarities for a large, racially diverse and inclusive sample of 5,860 LGBTQ/Gender Expansive youth in the United States. Through a participatory action research design and a national survey created by an intergenerational research collective, the “What’s Your Issue?” survey data are used to explore the relationships between injustice, discrimination and activism; to develop an analysis of how race and gender affect young people’s vulnerabilities to State violence (in housing, schools and by the police), and their trajectories to activism, and to amplify a range of “intimate activisms” engaged by LGBTQ/GE youth with powerful adults outside their community, and with often marginalized peers within. The essay ends with a theoretical appreciation of misrecognition as structural violence; activism as a racialized and gendered response to injustice, and an elaborated archive of “intimate activisms” engaged with dominant actors and within community, by LGBTQ/GE youth who have been exiled from home, school, state protection and/or community and embody, nevertheless, “willful subjectivities”.

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Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000114 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 113-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Michael S. Rodi ◽

Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽

Christine Walrath ◽

Robert L. Stephens ◽

D. Susanne Condron ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Suicide Prevention ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Service Access ◽

Referral Patterns ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Lee Smith ◽

Prevention Behavior ◽

Key Variables ◽

And Gender ◽

To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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