![]() This summarization is followed by a discussion of a five-step intervention process for use with immigrant parents and for training of professionals who deal with immigrant parents. The paper describes different types of “adaptive adult” metaphors (e.g., past and future oriented), and discusses images held by groups who have experienced either a duality of private and public culture or changes in their cultural context. ![]() Central to the framework is the concept of the “adaptive adult” which serves as a guiding image for the organization of socialization goals, child-rearing ideologies, perceptions, and values of socializing agents in a given culture or group. The paper begins with a summarization of the conceptual framework upon which the guidelines are based. ![]() These guidelines are based on a conceptual framework derived from the multicultural reality of Israeli society and are supported by a growing body of studies on cross-cultural child development, immigration, and minority families. This paper proposes guidelines to both parents and professionals for the prevention and reduction of risk associated with cultural differences, conflicts, and misinterpretations. ![]() This is because such families may experience sociocultural and socioeconomic change and a loss of their former support networks that may result in poverty, social isolation, unemployment, and low self-esteem that may impact on parent-child relationships and increase the risk for maltreatment. The literature on families in changing cultural contexts indicated many potential sources of risk for children. ![]()
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