Confia en mi, Confio en ti: Applying developmental theory to mitigate sociocultural risk in Latinx families.

ABSTRACT: Ed Zigler was a champion for underprivileged youth, one who worked alongside communities to fight for long-lasting systemic changes that were informed by his lifespan and ecological perspective on the development of the whole child. This paper reports on the development, implementation, and preliminary outcomes of an intervention that embodied the Zigler approach by adopting a community participatory research lens to integrate complementary insights across community-based providers (promotoras), Latinx immigrant families, and developmental psychologists in the service of promoting parent-child relationship quality and preventing youth aggression and violence. Analyses from the first 112 Latinx mother-youth dyad participants (46% female children, ages 8-17) in the resultant, Confía en mí, C

SUBMITTER: Borelli JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8105258 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature