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Larner, Mary – 1990
This paper discusses home visiting programs for low income parents and infants and describes five such programs known collectively as the Child Survival/Fair Start (CS/FS) projects, funded by the Ford Foundation. It describes a conceptual model which links risk factors and intervention activities to effects on mothers and children and explains how…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Blacks, Child Welfare, Counseling Services
Download full textBrower, Deb; Wright, Virginia K. – 1986
Extended quotations from informal interviews with eight families focus on the experiences of parents in adjusting to life with a handicapped child. In the first part of this paper, seven interview questions probe the following issues: positive and negative experiences with other people's reactions; most and least helpful actions by others; effects…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Rearing, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1987
The House select committee met to hear testimony from parents, children, service providers, and researchers concerning the effects of job and income loss on families in central Illinois. The testimony of the first panel consisted of personal narratives. A high school student whose parents may move the family in order to find better paying jobs…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Coping, Dislocated Workers, Economic Factors
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1986
This hearing explored the value of work, and how changes in the economy and the composition of the work force have affected families. Witnesses (1) reported data on such topics as the kinds of jobs currently available, women's participation in the work force, unemployment, and labor force growth over the next decade; (2) argued that the economy is…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Demography, Economic Change
Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne (Australia). – 1984
Third in a series of seven volumes containing the proceedings of the 1983 Australian Family Research Conference, this publication deals with marital adjustment and breakdown. Papers are organized into four major sections: education for family tasks, marital satisfaction, adjustment to separation, and construction of family image. Papers and…
Descriptors: Divorce, Educational Needs, Family Life, Family Life Education
Cramer, Patrice A. – 1977
The potential for helping children of alcoholic parents to understand and to cope with the problems they experience was examined. Areas were explored in which supportive services may be provided to children of alcoholic parents. It was concluded that the school staff who have close, continuous contact would be the best and most accessible…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, Counseling Services, Elementary Secondary Education
Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior Coll., Perkinston. – 1980
As a contribution to the statewide Mississippi Student Information System (MisSIS), Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College (MGCJC) conducted two surveys to determine: (1) the reasons students cited for withdrawing from courses during Fall 1979, and (2) the reasons students cited for withdrawing from college during that semester. Survey participants…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Attendance, Counseling Services, Dropout Research
DAVIS, O.L., JR.; MATHEWS, VIRGINIA H. – 1967
THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA IN THE EDUCATION OF THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED WAS ANALYZED BY A COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE, APPOINTED IN MAY 1965. BASIC FINDINGS INCLUDE--(1) MEDIA RESOURCES SEEMED TO BE BOTH LITTLE USED, AND INEFFECTIVELY USED, (2) PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS SEEMED TO BE UNAWARE OF THE AVAILABILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF MEDIA RESOURCES,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bibliographies, Communication Problems, Curriculum Development
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1978
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these Proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the last in a series of 19 hearings dating from…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alcoholism, Antisocial Behavior, Attachment Behavior
Hunter, Edna J., Ed.; Nice, D. Stephen, Ed. – 1978
This volume is a collection of 11 articles which focus on the problems of family life among military personnel with dependent children. Three brief articles included in Chapter I discuss the military child from a developmental perspective, beginning with the preschool child and continuing through latency to adolescence. Chapter II reports on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Androgyny, Books, Child Abuse
Lewis, Hylan – 1974
This paper has a dual purpose. First, it relates the research and writings of DuBois, a social scientist and humanist in the best intellectual tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the sociology of the black family in the United States; and second, it presents selected data having to do with the structure and functioning of…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Black Employment, Black History
Belden, Bernard R. – Journal of Rural and Small Schools, 1986
Recounts the personal experience of returning to the elementary classroom in a rural Ozark school after 30 years in teacher education. Describes how the teacher and the school are often the only hope of children who are engulfed in economic poverty and lack personal security. (NEC)
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Disadvantaged Youth, Family Problems, Grade 1
Johnson, Troy R., Ed. – 1993
This proceedings contains edited transcripts of speeches and workshops given at a conference on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), held at UCLA in January 1992. Workshop titles were: fetal alcohol syndrome; responding to the family in Indian child welfare; joint in-service training for management of Indian Child Welfare Act cases; domestic…
Descriptors: Adoption, Alcohol Abuse, American Indians, Caseworker Approach
Pavetti, LaDonna; Olson, Krista; Nightingale, Demetra; Duke, Amy-Ellen; Isaacs, Julie – 1997
This report addresses expanding welfare-to-work (WTW) programs to increase work among welfare recipients facing personal and family challenges. Section 1 examines what is known about the impact of traditional WTW program models and policy innovations on employment and earning profiles of these recipients. Evidence is presented showing WTW programs…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedRhee, Siyon – Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 1996
Overviews social science research regarding Korean immigrant families and provides culturally relevant social work guidelines for addressing difficulties in marital adjustment or parent-child relationship in Korean families. Interventions include a short-term, task-centered crisis intervention model; a cognitive-behavioral approach for resolving…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship
