Journal of Child and Family Studies

The Parents Matter! Program: An Introduction

• Introduction

Rex Forehand, Kim S. Miller, Lisa Armistead, Beth A. Kotchick, Nicholas Long

Why Parents Matter!: The Conceptual Basis for a Community-Based HIV Prevention Program for the Parents of African American Youth

Patricia Dittus, Kim S. Miller, Beth A. Kotchick, Rex Forehand

Methodological Overview of the Parents Matter! Program

Joanna Ball, Jennifer Pelton, Rex Forehand, Nicholas Long, Scyatta A. Wallace

The Parents Matter! Program: Building a Successful Investigator-Community Partnership

Laura A. Secrest, Shana L. Lassiter, Lisa P. Armistead, Sarah C. Wyckoff, Jacqueline Johnson, Winona B. Williams, Beth A. Kotchick

The Parents Matter! Program Interventions: Content and the Facilitation Process

Nicholas Long, Barbara-Jeanne Austin, Mary M. Gound, Abesie O. Kelly, Adrienne A. Gardner, Rick Dunn, Stacy B. Harris, Kim S. Miller

Participant Retention in the Parents Matter! Program: Strategies and Outcome

Lisa P. Armistead, Heather Clark, C. Nekol Barber, Shannon Dorsey, Jennifer Hughley, Marcia Favors, Sarah C. Wyckoff

Race, Culture, and Ethnicity: Implications for a Community Intervention

Velma M. Murry, Beth A. Kotchick, Scyatta Wallace, Bethany Ketchen, Kenya Eddings, Laurie Heller, Ida Collier

Lessons Learned from the Parents Matter! Program

Nicholas Long, Kim S. Miller, Leslie C. Jackson, Gretchen K. Lindner, Regina G. Hunt, A. Doris Robinson, W. Dean Goldsby, Lisa P. Armistead

The Parents Matter! Program: Practical, Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, James Jaccard, Eileen Casillas

Book Review: The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. By Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Mohamed Sabaawi