Cultural adaptations of evidence-based family interventions to strengthen families and improve children's developmental outcomes

Quality of Life, Treatment Adherence, and Locus of Control: Multiple Family Groups for Chronic Medical Illnesses

“…The Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Association showed interest in working with us on the disease's psychosocial difficulties. The program was translated into Spanish, an adaptation recent publications suggested should be made, and applied "as is" (Kumpfer, Magalhaes, & Xie, 2012).…”

Una intervención eficaz basada en las habilidades familiares para la prevención de problemas de salud en hijos de padres adictos a alcohol y drogas

“…Adolescent substance use has been increasing possibly because of the worldwide economic recession, but also because of increased neglect of children rapidly increasing world wide as parents work harder to earn a living wage (Kumpfer, Xie, & Magalhães, 2012). Hence, they have less time to monitor their children's behaviours, which are critical mediators of later problem behaviours.…”

“…The cultural adaptation team is recommended to follow the steps to implementation and cultural adaptation that the program developers and trainers have found to produce the most effective outcomes. These steps were detailed in the recent UNODC publication (UNODC, 2009) and in journal publications (Kumpfer, Pinyucheon, de Melo, & Whiteside, 2008;Kumpfer, Xie, & Magalhães, 2012).…”

Advancing Intervention Science Through Effectiveness Research: A Global Perspective

“…Prevention researchers have recommended that nations scale-up their translation of EBPs and EBIs from research to practice in order to achieve a broader public health impact (e.g., Kumpfer et al 2012a). By making EBPs and EBIs more widely known to practitioners via university courses, national web-site lists, conferences, and training workshops, the gap between research and practice in the field have been appreciably reduced in the last decade in English speaking countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Canada, which maybe more likely to implement interventions largely developed from a linguistically syntonic efficacy-effectiveness research base.…”