Table 3.
Language Adaptation Team.
Project staff and translation team | |
Project staff | Translators |
First author: Dominican immigrant, PhD. More than a decade working with Latino immigrants and parent training. | Translator: BS, Latino female, educated in Puerto Rico, attending graduate school in the United States; prior experience translating research measures for Latino immigrant adolescents. |
Fourth author: Ecuadorian American, MSW. Prior work history working with Latino immigrant families and also advocating for undocumented Latino youth. | Back translator: BS, European American, male, degree in Spanish/linguistics, lived in Spain and Latin America, prior experience translating research, medical and consent documents for low-income Latino immigrants in Chicago. |
Panel of local experts | |
Clinical members | Parent members |
MSW, Puerto Rican, female: trained in Puerto Rico, working in the United States, and familiar with parent training program. | Mexican immigrant, female: experience being a Latino family advocate and a leader.a |
Bilingual school counselor, Columbian immigrant, female: trained in Columbia and the United States, familiar with using a similar parent training program with Latino immigrant parents.b | Mexican immigrant, male: ESL teacher to Latino adults in a community center serving immigrant families. |
BS social worker, female, Mexican immigrant: trained in the United States. | Colombian immigrant, female: also a school counselor in a predominantly Latino serving school.b |
Note. ESL = English as a second language.
Parent reviewed translated parent handouts with three friends from church.
One local expert was both an immigrant parent and a clinician, and served on both panels.