To provide a culturally competent parent training program for Hmong American parents, we sought to identify their cultural preferences and parenting needs, as well as to culturally adapt an evidence-based parent training program-Incredible Years (Webster-Stratton, 2006). Using a community-based participatory research framework, the study consisted of the following four distinctive phases: (a) gather stakeholders and identify the problem through a survey and focus group, (b) obtain qualitative data from Hmong American parents through theater testing and feasibility groups to elicit their feedback on the Incredible Years curriculum, (c) culturally adapt the Incredible Years curriculum based on thematic analysis of the qualitative data, and (d) pilot test the revised parenting curriculum and reflect upon the process of conducting community-based research. What is the public significance of this article?It remains a challenge to effectively engage communities of color that underutilize mental health services. The authors present a cultural adaptation process to the Incredible Years parent training program for Hmong American parents. Using a community-based participatory research design, the authors offer a step-by-step, culturally responsive approach to engage and empower a local community receiving parent training.

Parenting training (PT) can be implemented as a prevention program to effectively address children’s behavioral and psychosocial problems. In the current feasibility study, we implemented the Incredible Years (IY) Attentive Parenting Program as universal/primary prevention in a community mental health setting with racially diverse families. We evaluated the attendance and treatment outcomes in a one-group pre–post design. A total of 152 parents (88% mothers; 81% non-White) participated in the IY Attentive Parenting Program. Parents who completed the program reported a significant decrease in conduct problems and an increase in prosocial behaviors in their children. Minimal differences among race and gender were found in parents’ attendance, parenting stress, and children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms and prosocial behaviors. However, pretreatment child externalizing behaviors predicted parents’ attendance. The study provides preliminary support for the feasibility of the recently developed IY Attentive Parenting Program as a universal prevention program for behavioral and psychosocial problems in children.

SummaryParenting training (PT) can be implemented as prevention or intervention to effectively address children’s behavioral and psychosocial problems. In the current study, we described the implementation of the newly developed Incredible Years (IY) Attentive Parenting Program as a universal/primary prevention in a community mental health setting with racially diverse families, as well as evaluated its feasibility in terms of the attendance and treatment outcomes. In a pre-post design, 152 parents with 3- to 6- year-old children participated in the IY Attentive Parenting Program. FindingsParents reported a significant reduction of emotional problems and conduct problems in their children. Minimal differences among demographic factors (i.e., race and gender) were found in parents’ attendance, parenting stress, as well as children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms and prosocial behaviors.ApplicationThe current study provided the empirical support for the feasibility of the recently developed Incredible Years Attentive Parenting Program as a universal prevention implementation with racially diverse families.