Honoring children, making relatives: The cultural translation of parent-child interaction therapy for American Indian and Alaska Native families
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2011
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Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
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The Indian Country Child Trauma Center, as part of the National Child Traumatic Stress
Network, designed a series of American Indian and Alaska Native transformations of evidence-based treatment models. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) was culturally adapted/translated to provide an effective treatment model for parents who have difficulty with appropriate parenting skills or for their children who have problematic behavior. The model, Honoring Children—Making Relatives, embeds the basic tenets and procedures of PCIT in a framework that supports American Indian and Alaska Native traditional beliefs and parenting practices that regard children as being the center of the Circle. This article provides an overview of the Honoring Children—Making Relatives model, reviews cultural considerations incorporated into ICCTC’s model transformation process, and discusses specific applications for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy within the model.
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Native American, sex trafficking, prostitution
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Bigfoot, D. S., & Funderburk, B. (2011). Honoring children, making relatives: The cultural translation of parent-child interaction therapy for American Indian and Alaska Native families. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 43(4), 309-318.