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Pattie, Luk-Fong Yuk Yee – Professional Development in Education, 2009
Educational reforms have created tremendous stress for teachers in many parts of the world. This paper discusses the inadequacies of policy-makers treating teachers as having "deficits" that require "fixes", rather than addressing bigger system issues that cause their stress. Drawing from the case of a Hong Kong professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Coping
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Rimmerman, A.; And Others – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1989
This study of 78 mothers of mentally retarded children and adults found that respite care acts as a differential service that can enhance coping resources and is of most benefit to high self-esteem mothers of young developmentally disabled children, especially as a home-based model. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Coping, Developmental Disabilities, Home Programs
Meyer, Neil L. – 1980
Capital improvements programming is one financial managment technique for providing public services within the constraints of limited financial resources--a particular problem for communities experiencing rapid population growth. Long-range planning and improvement of public facilities for water supply, sewage treatment, parks and recreation,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Community Planning, Coping