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Anders-Cibik, Pamela; And Others – 1990
Home-based intervention services for emotionally disturbed youth are also commonly known as in-home services, family-centered services, family-based services, intensive family services, or family preservation services. They have developed as a way to deal with serious family problems that often result in the removal of a child or adolescent from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Family Counseling
Download full textWood, Sally M.; And Others – 1987
The FamiliesFirst project in Davis, California is a child abuse prevention project designed to keep abused children safely at home. During the first year of operation, FamiliesFirst provided in-home prevention services to 59 children in 26 families referred by county Child Protective Services as an alternative to out-of-home placement. Therapists,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Cost Effectiveness
Fieweger, Margaret A. – 1987
While many health care delivery systems are criticized for the dehumanizing way they treat patients, hospice care presents a refreshing alternative to health care for the terminally ill. Patients appropriate for hospice care are those with six months or less to live. Interpersonal communication education is an important component of hospice care…
Descriptors: Death, Family Counseling, Family Problems, Health Personnel
Reedy, Yvonne B.; Walls, Robin – 1996
Family needs assessment is mandated within Head Start programs. Cen-Clear Child Services, Inc., a Head Start program in Pennsylvania, set out to evaluate and revise its approach to information-gathering and to involve families in the planning process using plans based on family strengths and designed to meet family goals. Based on a model designed…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Family Involvement, Family Programs, Home Programs
Rowland, Charity; And Others – 1983
Substitute care for a child at risk has been been associated with psychological distress in the child and his family and a drain on public finances. To investigate the cost effectiveness and ultimate influence on family intactness of home-based family crisis intervention, 77 low income, inner city families with an adolescent child at risk of…
Descriptors: Coping, Cost Effectiveness, Counseling Effectiveness, Crisis Intervention
Drotar, Dennis – 1981
The experience of consultants in a pediatric hospital indicates that infant failure to thrive is almost always associated with strain in the relationships of the infant's caregivers. Consequently, a nontraditional, long-term, home-based, and family-centered model of evaluation and treatment of failure to thrive has been developed which involves…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Crisis Intervention, Disadvantaged, Family Counseling
