Chardée Galán
Pennsylvania State University, PA·Psychology
Young people who face social challenges tied to their background are at greater risk of depression, anxiety, and behavior problems. Conversations with caregivers that build pride in one's background and teach ways to cope can help offset that harm.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
parent-child communication
caregiver-child communication
video feedback
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2027
What they work on
- Refine the Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Background-Related Communication Competency (VIP-BCC) through repeated feedback rounds with advisory boards of youth, parents, family coaches, researchers, and clinicians.
- Test the refined intervention with five parents of 10- to 14-year-olds to find gaps in the curriculum and obstacles to delivery before a larger pilot.
- Assess the feasibility, acceptability, and early efficacy of VIP-BCC in a proof-of-concept single-arm trial with families.
- Measure the program's effects on parents' motivation, skills, confidence, and stress, and on youth coping, self-concept, mental health, and conduct problems.
More about the research
Many parents avoid these talks, however, or find them stressful, or lack the skills and confidence to have them well. Few preventive programs help parents with this, especially parents of early adolescents, who increasingly encounter complex social situations.
Why it matters
A brief program that helps parents talk with their children about their background could support better mental health and behavior in early adolescents facing background-related social challenges. If the pilot shows promise, VIP-BCC could become a preventive tool that family coaches use to build parents' communication skills and confidence and reduce their stress.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Pennsylvania State University: 60 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 743 research doctorates a year.
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