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Direct linkColeman, Marilyn; Nickleberry, Lynette – Family Relations, 2009
The purpose of this study was to critique in-print, post-1990 copyrighted stepfamily self-help books in order to provide guidance to helping professionals who work with these complex families. Of the 63 books reviewed, trained coders were able to strongly recommend 13 books for being well organized, for relying on clinical or empirical sources of…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Self Help Programs, Guidance, Educational Environment
Schafer, Mark J. – Rural Sociology, 2005
In the 1908s and 1990s African societies responded to reduced state educational capacity by expanding the reach of civil society--non-state societal organizations that sought to organize individuals and mobilize local resources for education and development. In this paper, I argue that rural African families were differentially prepared to respond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Social Capital, Family Structure
Height, Dorothy – The Nation, 1989
Traces the tradition of self-help in the Black community from the slave era through the contemporary civil rights movement. Contrasts the nontraditional female-headed extended Black family with that of the traditional male-headed nuclear White family. Discusses community-based self-help programs for Black families developed by the National Council…
Descriptors: Black Family, Black Organizations, Community Programs, Family Structure
Gary, Lawrence E.; And Others – 1983
This document is the final report of a study conducted to determine what factors contribute to strong Black family life and how these strong families solve problems, in order to add to the knowledge base on stable families so as to enhance practical intervention with families in need, and to identify models of self-help strategies used by stable…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Church Programs, Depression (Psychology)
Download full textSheppard, Harold L.; Striner, Herbert E. – 1966
The purpose of this bulletin is to briefly review relationships of employment, income, and family structure to civil rights of the American Negro population in recent years, and to stimulate the design of new and more effective policies and of more penetrating research activities regarding these relationships. Economic, sociological, and…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Employment, Blacks, Civil Rights
Tett, Lyn – 2001
A study examined the ways a group of people experiencing poverty, poor housing, and stress assessed the impact of these factors on their health through participating in a course called "Health Issues in the Community." It involved people from a range of socioeconomically excluded areas and groups throughout Scotland in identifying and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Developed Nations, Disadvantaged Environment
