Family Literacy Programs for Latino Families in the United States

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina C. Castro ◽  
Julia Mendez ◽  
Sandra Garcia ◽  
Diana Westerberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Literacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latino Families ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
Family Literacy Programs

Characteristics of Three Family Literacy Programs That Worked

2010 ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Lesley Morrow ◽  
Alan Mendelsohn ◽  
Melanie Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Family Literacy ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
Family Literacy Programs

Familial influences on internalizing symptomatology in Latino adolescents: An ecological analysis of parent mental health and acculturation dynamics

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4pt2) ◽  
pp. 1191-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Smokowski ◽  
Roderick A. Rose ◽  
Caroline B. R. Evans ◽  
Katie L. Cotter ◽  
Meredith Bower ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Family System ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latino Families ◽  
Latino Adolescents ◽  
Parent Mental Health

AbstractThe aim of this study was to examine if family system dynamics (e.g., parent mental health, marriage quality, conflict, and cohesion) that have often been overlooked when studying Latino families play a more important role in predicting adolescent internalizing symptoms than acculturation processes. Data comes from the Latino Acculturation and Health Project, a longitudinal investigation of acculturation in Latino families in North Carolina and Arizona (Smokowski & Bacallao, 2006, 2010). Researchers conducted in-depth, community-based interviews with 258 Latino adolescents and 258 of their parents in metropolitan, small-town, and rural areas. Interviews were conducted at four time points at intervals of approximately 6 months. Parent and adolescent ratings of the adolescent's internalizing symptoms were used as the dependent variable in a longitudinal hierarchical linear model with a rater effects structure. Results showed that parent–adolescent conflict and parent mental health (fear/avoidance of social situations and humiliation sensitivity) were significant predictors of adolescent internalizing symptoms. Acculturation scales were not significant predictors; however, internalizing symptoms decreased with time spent in the United States. Females and adolescents from lower socioeconomic status families reported more internalizing symptoms, while participants who had been in the United States longer reported fewer internalizing symptoms. Implications were discussed.

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