DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVENTION MAP FOR A PARENT EDUCATION INTERVENTION TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AMONG HISPANIC MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

This paper describes development of Padres Trabajando por la Paz a vio lence prevention intervention Sor Hispanic parents to increase parenta l monitoring. The intervention vt ns developed using an innovative new program planning process: intervention mapping. Theory and empirical evidence broadly defined performance objectives and determinants of pa rental monitoring. These objectives rt were further refined through gr oup and individual interviews it with the target parent group. Learnin g objectives for the intervention guided the content of the interventi on that used modeling as the primary method and role model stories as a strategy delivered through newsletters. Stage-matching members of th e target population for their readiness to implement the parental moni toring behaviors further refined the social cognitive message design s trategies. Intervention mapping provides an explicit theory- and data- driven guide for intervention development that maximizes intervention impact for a specific target population.