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Parents encourage behaviors viewed as culturally acceptable and discourage those viewed as culturally unacceptable. Culture heavily influences the specific parenting practices used to encourage and discourage child behavior. In addition, it influences which child behaviors are considered troublesome, the meaning that parents give to those troubles, the stigma associated with seeking help, the people parents go to first for help, and the trust they have in providers. Finally, culture influences the very recommendations that a practitioner provides about how to raise children properly and can be expected to influence parents' acceptance of and adherence to those recommendations. As a result of these cultural influences, practitioners must use a so-called cultural lens as a central focus of professional behavior. That is, practitioners must recognize that all individuals, including themselves, are influenced by historical, ecological, sociopolitical, and disciplinary aspects of culture. A step toward ensuring that ethnically different children and families receive quality services is the adoption of culturally sensitive parent training practices. Although there are only limited data regarding empirically supported decision making in this regard, this chapter attempts to provide information and recommendations that are grounded in religious, social, educational, familial, and legal contexts that shape the experiences and beliefs of Asian American, African American, Native American, European American, and Latino American individuals and the practitioners who serve them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)