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Kruger, Lois; And Others – Social Work, 1979
Social work students conclude from an experience that parents can consider alternative means of disciplining children when they participate in a parent group that is comfortable and when attendance is promoted by provision of tangible services. Parents achieved increased sense of self-worth and learned appropriate ways of expressing anger. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Group Counseling, Parent Counseling, Parents
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Rose, Sheldon D. – Social Work, 1974
Parents on welfare as well as middle class parents took part in a training project designed to help them modify problem behaviors in their children. The guidelines developed in this project for group training and for the evaluation of outcome can be applied in various types of agencies. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Agents, Group Counseling, Parent Counseling
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Gilbert, Gwendolyn C. – Social Work, 1974
Black adolescent parents need counsel from social workers who are able to intervene with a discerning knowledge of concepts, such as neocolonialism, survival, and liberation, that are important to them and to the black community. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Counselor Role, Illegitimate Births
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Jacobson, Doris S. – Social Work, 1979
The author discusses the emotional issues that confront stepparents and stepchildren and describes a program to help stepparents deal with these issues and other conflicts. She also explores the myths of instant adjustment and recreated nuclear families and the realities of the stepparent-stepchild relationship. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Counseling, Foster Family
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Ackerson, Barry J. – Social Work, 2003
Reviews the literature on mentally ill parents and addresses conceptual issues in assessment and services. Critiques methods of assessment and recommends more appropriate and comprehensive assessment protocols. Model programs are discussed with a focus on the development of competent parenting skills combined with social supports for parents who…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Counseling Services, Evaluation Methods, Mental Disorders
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Stein, Theodore J.; Gambrill, Eileen D. – Social Work, 1976
Behavioral modification techniques are used with families of children in foster care as a way of helping them achieve long-range goals for their children. Case examples illustrate the goals, intervention plans, and the outcomes. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Caseworker Approach, Change Strategies, Family Counseling
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Kristal, Helen; Tucker, Ford – Social Work, 1975
Effective treatment of child abuse cases requires multidisciplinary approach in which social workers, psychologists and physicians coordinate their efforts to help abused child and his/her parents by trying to ease tensions at home. Personnel concerned with child abuse should be well acquainted with various conditions that lead to child abuse. (SE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Community Health Services