Symposium contains a presentation and discussion by 3-4 experts on a particular topic. A discussant integrates and summarizes the papers, develops implications for policy and practice from the research, and facilitates audience discussion.

Papers listed below are included in this session.

Discussant: Anthony G. James
Chair: Ashley A. Walsdorf

Summary
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) is a primary way parents of color prepare their children for life in discriminatory contexts. The Racial Socialization Observational Task and Coding System (RSOTCS) was developed to capture ERS in action using three racial dilemmas and a video-recorded, parent-child interaction where families discuss how they would handle the situation. In this symposium, an analysis of parent-adolescent interaction data examining dyadic communication patterns will be presented first, followed by two presentations with results from a research team’s adaptations to the RSOTCS for a younger, pre-adolescent cohort of Black and Latinx children (ages 11-12) and their caregivers (N = 81). The second presentation in this symposium will detail results of a profile analysis of caregivers’ responses to thePolicescenario and associations to child self-regulation. The third presentation will detail profile analysis results of theCounselorscenario and associations to children’s academic engagement and motivation.

Objectives

• To assess the utility of measuring situation-specific, ethnic-racial socialization in vivo among Black and Latinx families and the applicability to clinical contexts
• To address the clinical implications of bidirectional versus unidirectional patterns of dyadic communication during the socialization process, as well as caregivers’ attunement to children’s emotional wellbeing and self-regulatory needs therein
• To prepare clinicians to work with Black and Latinx families who are navigating the socialization of their young members

Subject Codes: parent-child relationships, racism, communication
Population Codes: adolescence, African Americans, Hispanic/Latina/o/x
Method and Approach Codes: direct observation, cluster analysis, quantitative methodology