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Ethnocultural Parent Education in Canada: Current Status and Directions

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1994

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The delivery of parent education services to families from ethnocultural communities in Canada is considered. Despite the increased recognition of the importance of matching programs to the needs of participants, an extensive review of the literature revealed only five published studies evaluating parent education programs within ethnocultural communities. Because it was hypo-thesized that ethnocultural parent education programs exist in Canada despite the paucity of published data, community and tertiary care organizations were surveyed regarding their efforts in this area. The majority of service providers that responded to the survey indicated they do employ special provisions for parents from ethnocultural communities. The most frequently endorsed provisions included: addressing cultural issues within the program curriculum, utilizing ethnocultural facilitators, and offering the program in the first language of the participants. Future directions that follow from the findings are discussed. In particular, the need for empirical evaluation regarding the utility and acceptability of these cultural provisions is stressed.

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L'étude porte sur la prestation des services d'éducation parentale auprès de familles de communautés ethnoculturelles du Canada. Malgré la reconnaissance accrue de l'importance d'adapter les programmes aux besoins des participants, une revue exhaustive de la littérature n'a permis de relver que cinq recherches évaluatives de programmes d'éducation parentale dans les communautés ethnoculturelles. L'hypothèse a été faite alors que de tels programmes d'éducation parentale devaient bien exister malgré la rareté des données publiées, ce qui a conduit à mener une enquète auprèe des organisations de soins tertiaires et des services communautaires en vue de mesurer les efforts consentis dans ce domaine. La majorité des services ayant répondu à l'enquète ont fait état de measures particulières développées à l'adresse des communautés ethnoculturelles. Les mesures d'action les plus fréquentes comprenaient: l'inclusion de questions culturelles dans la programmation des cours, l'utilisaton de facilitateurs d'origine ethnoculturelle, et l'offre de cours dans la langue maternelle des participants. Les perspectives futures se dégageant des résultats de l'enquète sont ensuite examinées. On retient en particulier la nécessité d'une évaluation empirique portant sur l'utilité et la pertinence de ces diverse measures d'ordre culturel.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 13Number 1April 1994
Pages: 43 - 54

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Version of record online: 1 May 2009

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Kathryn H. Short
University of British Columbia
Charlotte Johnston
University of British Columbia

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