The Strong African American Families Program: Translating Research Into Prevention Programming

A randomized prevention trial contrasted families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a contextual model positing that regulated, communicati...

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Published in:Child development 2004-05, Vol.75 (3), p.900-917
Main Authors: Brody, Gene H., Murry, Velma McBride, Gerrard, Meg, Gibbons, Frederick X., Molgaard, Virginia, McNair, Lily, Brown, Anita C., Wills, Thomas A., Spoth, Richard L., Luo, Zupei, Chen, Yi-fu, Neubaum-Carlan, Eileen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adult
African Americans
Alcohol
Alcohol drinking
Alcohol Drinking - prevention & control
Alcohols
Biological and medical sciences
Black American people
Child
Child development
Child Rearing
Children
Children & youth
Developmental psychology
Drinking
Families & family life
Family
Family - psychology
Family studies
Family support
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Goal Orientation
Human sexual behavior
Humans
Intervention
Interventions
Male
Mothers
Negative Attitudes
Parent Child Relationship
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting
Parenting skills
Parents
Parents & parenting
Pretests
Prevention
Preventive programmes
Program Evaluation
Psychological Theory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Race
Risk behaviour
Rural Areas
Rural Population
Sex
Sexual Abstinence
Sexuality
Socialization
Substance abuse
USA
Young people
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Summary:A randomized prevention trial contrasted families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a contextual model positing that regulated, communicative parenting causes changes in factors protecting youths from early alcohol use and sexual activity. Parenting variables included involvement-vigilance, racial socialization, communication about sex, and clear expectations for alcohol use. Youth protective factors included negative attitudes about early alcohol use and sexual activity, negative images of drinking youths, resistance efficacy, a goal-directed future orientation, and acceptance of parental influence. Intervention-induced changes in parenting mediated the effect of intervention group influences on changes in protective factors over a 7-month period.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00713.x