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SUMMARY:Family influences on the health risk behaviours and well-being of 
 African American adolescents - Prof Cleopatra Howard Caldwell
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CONTACT:Johanna M Lukate
DESCRIPTION:An extensive review of parenting behaviors by Kumpfer (2003) i
 dentified parental support and success at monitoring youth’s activities 
 as two behaviors necessary for developing resiliency and competence in ado
 lescents. By far\, most parental support research has focused on mothers\;
  however\, emerging research highlights the significance of the father’s
  role in adolescent development. Nevertheless\, maternal support continues
  to be the primary focus of most research. Although findings from previous
  studies are useful\, they often do not consider how race-related stressor
 s may interact with parenting behaviors to influence the well-being of eth
 nically diverse Black adolescents. Mounting evidence suggests that parenti
 ng within African American families can be affected by both cultural and s
 ocioeconomic variations in family environments associated with the consequ
 ences of economic hardship and racial discrimination. Studies have found\,
  for example\, that positive racial identity development is an important s
 ocialization goal within most African American families. Some scholars sug
 gest this is reflective of the cultural value of a collective orientation 
 within African American families that results from the need to provide emo
 tional support in an attempt to protect their children from the harsh real
 ities of racial rejection. Few studies have tested this proposition with e
 thnically diverse Black adolescents. My presentation will address this lim
 itation by examining the moderating influences of maternal support and rac
 ial identity attitudes on the relation between perceived discrimination an
 d psychological well-being among African American and Caribbean Black adol
 escents from the United States. I will also discuss findings from a cultur
 ally-based intervention that incorporates race-related socialization. The 
 intervention is designed to prevent youth risky behaviors by strengthening
  the parenting skills of nonresident African American fathers as a key str
 ategy for protecting preadolescent boys. Because parenting occurs within t
 he wider society\, it will be critical to discuss broader ecological issue
 s with implications for facilitating or hindering effective parenting beha
 viors. 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
  Site
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