Third Community Advisory Board Meeting: Updates and Reflections�

Effects of Early and Prolonged Parent-Child Separation: Understanding Mental Health among Separated-Reunited Chinese American Children

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NIMHD K99/R00 Award

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PI: Shaobing Su

Agenda (内容）

• Updates （进展）
• Reflections on interview data (反思）
• Challenges during data collection（收据收集的挑战）
• Barriers for families to participate in mental health research and accessing services (移民家庭参与心理研究和服务的阻碍）
• Potential solutions/strategies (可能的解决方案)
• Feedbacks and Advice （反馈和建议）

Updates (进展）

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• Screening survey data collection: Need ~200 participants （ 114 completed）

筛查问卷数据收集: 需要大概200个被试（已完成221个）

• Interviews: Completed 16 parent-child dyads and 4 are attending interviews this week

访谈：完成16对亲子的访谈, 4 对已经预约这周接受访谈

• Transcription and translation（completed 15 parent-child transcripts and 8 parent interview translations）

录音转录和翻译 （完成15对亲子的访谈录音转录和8位家长的中转英翻译）

• Codebooks and Coding （Developed parent and child codebooks, finalized versions are pending)

访谈编码手册和编码（起草了家长和孩子的编码手册，导师正在审阅，最终稿尚未完成）

• Papers and reports （8 paper ideas are proposed, 1 community online talk is proposed）

研究文章和报告 (筹备8个学术文章，1次社区在线报告）

Reflections on interview data (进展和反思）

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• Reasons for separation (分离的原因）
• Perception of separation and reunification (如何看待亲子分离和团聚）

parent-child commonalities and differences （亲子相似之处和不同之处)

• Child mental health（孩子心理健康）

parent-child commonalities and differences （亲子相似之处和不同之处)

• Engagement in Chinese immigrant community (中国移民社区参与）
• Advice for family strengthening interventions (家庭功能提升建议)

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Reflections on interview data (进展和反思）

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• Findings from my daily diary study with satellite babies families:

卫星宝宝家庭日志研究结果发现：

• youth who were separated at 6 months or older reported more mother-child conflict than those who were separated at younger than 6 months old 在6个月或者以上年纪分离的青少年比6个月以下年纪经历分离的青少年报告更多的母亲-孩子冲突
• Mothers of youth with 2 years or longer separation reported less mother-child warmth compared to those whose child experienced a shorter term of separation 相对于分离2年以下的家庭，分离2年或者以上的青少年的母亲报告较低的母亲-孩子温暖互动。
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Reflections on interview data (进展和反思）

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• Findings from my daily diary study with satellite babies families:

卫星宝宝家庭日志研究结果发现：

• Parent-child interaction reported by fathers, mothers, and children was significantly related to child daily mood. Mother-child interaction is especially important in child’s daily mood.

无论是父亲报告，母亲报告，还是孩子报告的亲子互动（父亲-孩子/母亲-孩子），都与孩子的日常情绪有显著的相关。母亲与孩子的互动尤为重要。

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Barriers for families to participate in mental health research and accessing services (移民家庭参与心理研究和服务的阻碍）

• Don’t know much about available resources

不知道哪里有这些资源

• Don’t think it will be helpful

不认为会有帮助

• Families received services perceived as somehow helpful

接受过辅导咨询的家庭认为有一定的帮助

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Potential solutions/strategies (可能的解决方案)

1. How to help these families access free or affordable MH resources?

如何帮助这些家庭接触到免费或者平价的资源？

• How to help these families eliminate or reduce biases towards MH services? 如何帮助这些家庭消除或者减少对心理健康服务的偏见

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Potential solutions/strategies (可能的解决方案)

• Advertisement (宣传）
• Culturally suitable services (文化适应的心理服务）
• Research-community partnership on developing or improving family MH services 研究-社区合作研发和提升家庭和心理服务

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Feedbacks and Advice （反馈和建议）

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