An innovative CPF role provided support encouragement, clinical, and professional advice. There were discordant views regarding the benefits of the CPF role in addressing cultural issues, which requires further examination.

Higher education administrators are increasingly committed to proactive communication with the parents of their students, but little empirical research exists that demon-282 strates the effectiveness of such communication. This investigation evaluated the effects of varying frequency of communication by randomly assigning first-year college students and their parents to receive 0, 1, or 4 documents that described activities associated with student success in college and urged them to discuss these activities with one another. Students and parents were then mailed a followup survey that assessed their recall regarding how many documents they had received, accuracy of recognition about the content of the documents, and extent of communication about these topics. Results indicated that, for parents, significant linear relationships existed between receipt of more documents, recall of receiving a greater number of mailings, and greater accuracy in recognizing content. Recall and recognition among students, however, were not differentially affected by receiving more documents. For both students and parents, receipt of more documents was not associated with increased frequency of conversations about specific content. Across experimental conditions, parents reported having more frequent conversations with their students than students reported having with their parents. These outcomes suggest that parents, but not their children, are attentive to the content of communications from college administrators, especially when they are sent frequently and within a short time frame

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ObjectiveThis interpretive phenomenological analysis study aimed to explore the marriage experience of diaspora Indians who chose to marry a non‐Indian partner and to fill in the literature gap to inform the counseling practices.BackgroundDiaspora Indians have the lowest level of interracial marriage of any immigrant group living in the United States at about 20%. The resistance to marrying someone of another culture and insufficient empirical research in the field makes it difficult for counselors to adjust counseling services when dealing with diaspora Indian interracial couples.MethodUsing interpretivism and phenomenology as the philosophical ground for the research, the researcher explored the subjective experiences of interracial marriage among diaspora Indians through in‐depth interviews, which were transcribed and analyzed using coding and thematic analysis.ResultsThe results illustrate those cultural issues, based on the differences between the collectivist nature of the Indian American community and the individualist American culture, caused considerable stress on interracial marriage and were the major driver of therapeutic intervention for the interracial couple.ConclusionThe study identified various coping mechanisms that could potentially reduce marital stress among diaspora Indians engaged in interracial marriage. Findings indicate that the cultural perspective should be at the core of counseling services rendered to interracial couples.ImplicationsMulticultural competence and cultural humility are essential for helping practitioners to understand nuances related to interracial marriage, especially those joining the collectivist diaspora Indian culture with that of more individualistic races and ethnicities in the United States. Future studies in the field may use longitudinal research for observing the evolution of interracial couples while managing their cultural differences and other marital issues.

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