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Examining ethnic disparities in provider and parent in-session participation engagement.
- Source :
- Journal of Children's Services; 2017, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p47-58, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Purpose Well-documented ethnic disparities exist in the identification and provision of quality services among children receiving community-based mental health services. These disparities extend to parent treatment engagement, an important component of effective mental health services. Currently, little is known about differences in how providers support parents’ participation in treatment and the degree to which parents actively participate in it. The purpose of this paper is to examine potential differences in both provider and parent in-session participation behaviours.Design/methodology/approach Participants included 17 providers providing standard community-based mental health treatment for 18 parent-child dyads, with 44 per cent of the dyads self-identifying as Hispanic/Latino. In-session participation was measured with the parent participation engagement in child psychotherapy and therapist alliance, collaboration, and empowerment strategies observational coding systems.Findings Overall, results indicate significantly lower levels of parent participation behaviours among Hispanic/Latino families compared to their Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino counterparts. No significant differences were seen in providers’ in-session behaviours to support parent participation across Hispanic/Latino and Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino families.Research limitations/implications These findings contribute to the literature on ethnic differences in parent treatment engagement by utilising measures of in-session provider and parent behaviours and suggest that further investigation is warranted to documenting and understanding ethnic disparities in parents’ participation in community-based child mental health treatment.Originality/value This paper contributes to the evaluation of differences in parent treatment engagement through demonstrating the utility of an in-session observational coding system as a measure of treatment engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COGNITIVE therapy
ETHNIC groups
FAMILY medicine
HEALTH services accessibility
HEALTH status indicators
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL quality control
MENTAL health
MINORITIES
PARENTING
QUESTIONNAIRES
VIDEO recording
PILOT projects
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
INTER-observer reliability
PARENT attitudes
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17466660
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Children's Services
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123488428
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-12-2016-0022