Professionals’ and Mothers’ Beliefs About Maternal Sensitivity Across Cultures: Toward Effective Interventions in Multicultural Societies

Interventions for parents of young children often focus on enhancing parental sensitivity. A cognitive match on treatment goals has been shown to relate to the quality of the relationship (or alliance) between a therapist and the person receiving intervention, which in turn predicts the effectiveness of interventions. However, in multicultural societies therapists and patients do not always share the same ethnic background, which could influence...