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Gault, Stanley C.; Brock, William E.; Donahue, Thomas R. – 1987
Three conference papers explore issues related to work and the American family. The first, by Stanley C. Gault, Chairman of th Board of the National Association of Manufacturers, discusses recent changes in business practices that accommodate changes in the structure of the modern American family. The second, by Secretary of Labor, William E.…
Descriptors: Business, Conflict, Employed Parents, Family Problems
Cohen, George M.; And Others – 1986
This document contains papers from a conference which targeted the needs and interests of counselors working with families. Individual papers in the book include: (1) "Economic, Social and Political Influences on Families" (Lynda Henley Walters); (2) "Family Structures and Stresses: A Counseling Perspective" (Edwin Herr); (3) "Cultural Diversity…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Counselors, Family Counseling
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater. Div. of Home Economics. – 1977
This document is the proceedings of a statewide conference on the family sponsored by the Family Study Center and the Office of University Extension, Oklahoma State University. Participants and resource persons from eight states and 39 communities came together to consider new options for families as they face the adversities of a world with a…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Energy Conservation, Family Problems, Family (Sociological Unit)
Download full textAcampora, Alfonso P., Ed.; Nebelkopf, Ethan, Ed. – 1986
The World Federation of Therapeutic Communities is an international association of drug treatment centers that use the "Therapeutic Community" (TC) to combat chemical dependency and drug addiction. Their 1985 conference focused on bridging services between the TC and the traditional human service systems. A total of 85 separate papers…
Descriptors: Administration, Adolescents, Criminal Law, Drug Addiction
D'Oyley, Vincent, Ed. – 1978
The proceedings from the Toronto Conference present an overview of domestic violence, the roles of the police and judicial system, male/female relationships in domestic violence, the clinical treatment of domestic violence, domestic violence and education, social services, and a bibliography on battered wives. The multi-dimensionality of, and the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Conference Reports, Family Environment, Family Problems
Yoakum, Kathryn S., Ed.; Friesen, Barbara J., Ed. – 1991
This conference proceedings reports on a 1989 meeting addressing respite care for families of children with mental, emotional or behavioral disorders. The conference addressed: (1) respite care concepts, programs, and issues; and (2) planning for designing, financing, and implementing state and local respite programs. The report contains the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Behavior Disorders, Children
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1984
This booklet is the report of the Working Group on Children and Family Breakdown: The Positive Role of Nurses and Midwives, which was convened by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and was attended by members of health disciplines, representatives of community groups, and journalists from the nursing and popular press. These…
Descriptors: Children, Family Problems, Family Structure, Foreign Countries
Sword, Jeane, Ed. – 1987
Sponsored by the Advisory Council of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, the proceedings include the keynote address on the effects of day care on young children and associated guidelines for practice. Four sectional presentations provide discussions of discipline-based art education for early childhood, all-day programs for creative learning in…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Art Education, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Kinch, Richard, Ed. – 1979
To discuss ways to help strengthen family systems was the purpose of a Wingspread Conference held in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference was sponsored by the Coalition for the White House Conference on Families, in cooperation with the Johnson Foundation. There are ten sections to the report, including a brief introduction which provides background…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Family Life, Family Problems, Family Programs
Callahan, Christine – 1986
This booklet describes the work of the Alaska Women's Commission, a state agency dedicated to the achievement of equal legal, economic, social, and political status for women in Alaska. Since its inception, the Alaska Women's Commission has provided funding for regional women's conferences in rural parts of the state. The document describes four…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Family Problems, Females, Political Issues
Lauderdale, Michael L., Ed.; And Others – 1978
The proceedings of the Second Annual National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect (1977) are presented. The first section contains discussions of the following delivery system-related topics: community resource development (planning community protective services, mobilizing communities, maximizing educational resources, approaching…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Resources, Conference Reports
Connecticut State Dept. of Children and Youth Services, Hartford. – 1979
The proceedings of a series of four full-day workshops held during May, 1979, by the Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders Project of the Department of Children and Youth Services and the Connecticut Justice for Children Collaboration are presented. Areas of concern addressed by the workshops included the following: (1) adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Behavior Problems, Community Organizations
Ziegler, Martha – Early Childhood Bulletin, 1996
This issue of the "Early Childhood Bulletin" is a summary of information that was presented at a 1996 conference on autism sponsored by the National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System (NECTAS). Participants included Part H and Part B, Section 619 Program coordinators, individual program providers, and Interagency Coordinating…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Autism, Coordination, Disabilities
National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, Washington, DC. – 1985
The booklet presents excerpts from a December 1984 conference (Washington, D.C.) on disabled and at-risk infants, toddlers, and their families. Parents' perspectives are offered on care for medically vulnerable infants and children (by the mother of a ventilator-assisted child), services for children with mild developmental delays (by a mother of…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Family Problems, Family Programs, Family Relationship
Spitze, Hazel Taylor – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1980
Describes two panels of a 1979 conference on the future of the family. Marriage as an Economic Partnership was a panel that included speakers addressing family law, child abuse, marital property reform, and women's rights. After 50--The New Third of Life discussed needs and problems of the aging. (JOW)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Conferences, Divorce, Family (Sociological Unit)
