The Familias Unidas intervention, a multilevel
selective preventive intervention for urban poor
Hispanic immigrant families, shows promise in its ability
to engage participants and alter important parenting
practices linked to later adolescent problem behaviors.
The essence of the program of research at the
Center for Family Studies is to design, test, and refine
interventions based on information about for whom
intervention is working, for whom it is not working,
and whether we can improve the effectiveness across
a wider population. The value of the Familias Unidas
intervention rests in part on the accrual of data across
a number of studies and with respect to two specific research
areas that will help us refine and improve the
intervention. First, our program of research continues
to examine the intervention’s effects on hypothesized
proximal mediators and on distal developmental
outcomes such as conduct disorder and substance
abuse. Familias Unidas’s developmental model predicts
that working with families and parents to change
the structure (i.e., interactions) of an adolescent’s social
ecology will change the likelihood of negative
developmental outcomes. The future work of this
project includes more refined tests of the developmental
model through longitudinal multilevel mediation
modeling (Krull & McKinnon, 1999) and tests
of the specific mechanisms by which the intervention
had its effect (Kazdin, 2001). Because the base rates of
The Familias Unidas intervention, a multilevel
selective preventive intervention for urban poor
Hispanic immigrant families, shows promise in its ability
to engage participants and alter important parenting
practices linked to later adolescent problem behaviors.
The essence of the program of research at the
Center for Family Studies is to design, test, and refine
interventions based on information about for whom
intervention is working, for whom it is not working,
and whether we can improve the effectiveness across
a wider population. The value of the Familias Unidas
intervention rests in part on the accrual of data across
a number of studies and with respect to two specific research
areas that will help us refine and improve the
intervention. First, our program of research continues
to examine the intervention’s effects on hypothesized
proximal mediators and on distal developmental
outcomes such as conduct disorder and substance
abuse. Familias Unidas’s developmental model predicts
that working with families and parents to change
the structure (i.e., interactions) of an adolescent’s social
ecology will change the likelihood of negative
developmental outcomes. The future work of this
project includes more refined tests of the developmental
model through longitudinal multilevel mediation
modeling (Krull & McKinnon, 1999) and tests
of the specific mechanisms by which the intervention
had its effect (Kazdin, 2001). Because the base rates of
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