The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
FPG’s Barbara Hanna Wasik Distinguished Lecture Welcomes Dr. Anna Long
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Anna C. J. Long as the presenter of the inaugural Barbara Hanna Wasik Distinguished Lecture.
Towards Empirically-Supported, Responsive Practice: The Emerging Science of Cultural Adaptation
As the diversity of the United States continues to grow, researchers and practitioners have begun to question how responsive the movement towards empirically-supported treatments (ESTs) has been for ethnic minorities. For instance, scholars have exposed the potentially poor external validity of many ESTs, difficulties transporting ESTs to “real-world” contexts, and the overwhelming theoretical grounding of programs and practices in Western frameworks (Chu & Leino, 2017). Simultaneously, practitioners and professional organizations have highlighted a need to reduce inequities in the educational an