Instructs social workers and others working with refugees and immigrants in the design of a parent education course, with special emphasis on those parents who are experiencing difficulties in relations with their children. Guidance is based on 3 parent education projects in Providence, Rhode Island; Tacoma, Washington; and the Bronx, New York. Although the projects’ participants all were Cambodian, the results have broad applications to other immigrant and refugee groups. The manual contains: (1) information about the cultural background of Cambodian refugees in the United States; (2) details of each site’s efforts to meet participants’ needs, including goals of the course, major principles of the course design, and evaluation of the course; and (3) conclusions about the overall results of the projects and the design of future courses aimed at minimizing parent-child conflicts. The material also suggests that readers study the accounts of each project to determine how staff decided what to include in the course content, what skills were being imparted to project participants, what learning process would be most effective, and what major changes need to be made in each course.
