By Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.

Designed to understand and meet the unique needs of African-American parents, Black Parenting: Strategies for Training presents a comprehensive investigation of African-American parenting issues, values and practices - and uses these findings to create new strategies for education and training parents.

Included are: a multifaceted conception of parenting functions and responsibilities, a profile of Effective Black Parenting, the unique context of Black parenting, an intensive comparative study of Black and White parenting images, attitudes and practices, guidelines for implementing parenting programs in Black communities, specific strategies for making programs more culturally-relevant, and a test of standard programs that employ culturally-relevant strategies.

This ground-breaking book provides the first empirical substantiation of the phenomenon of Traditional Black Discipline and highlights what Black parents share with their children about race and race relations. The research and training strategies described in this book form the basis of CICC's Effective Black Parenting Program.