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PCIT was originally developed as a treatment for behavior disturbances. It was developed based on behavioral strategies known to be acceptable to European-American families in the United States. With this origin, it is possible that PCIT is a culturally biased treatment and may not be well suited to other cultural groups. Some experts in multicultural issues have discussed whether it would be advantageous to make culturally specific adaptations to PCIT with the hope of providing better mental health services to groups that traditionally have been underserved. Within the United States, several systematic trials with PCIT in different subcultures have been conducted to see if the effects of PCIT differ based on cultural group. These studies have looked at whether adaptations of PCIT are necessary to be used with African-American families, Mexican-American children, Native Americans, and for families in Puerto Rico (see Chapter 19).
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McNeil, C.B., Hembree-Kigin, T.L. (2010). PCIT Around the World. In: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88639-8_24
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