This paper describes a program designed to help court-ordered, truant, status-offenders in a small Kansas community. The Truancy Diversion Program involves systems-oriented family interventions in the context of a broader community systems approach to deal with truancy. In this model, families join with the educational system, the mental health…

This literature review provides an overview of the impact of dual careers on family and family therapy. The dual career family currently represents the most common married unit. Because both work and family stress impact psychological well-being variables such as depression and self-esteem, family and work can not be understood as two separate and…

A discussion of the educational problems of big-city school systems which defines the community school concept or philosophy, and emphasizes the role of an energetic school-home partnership composed of the community, parents, leaders, and educators. (JM)

Reviews the effects on parents and children of living in a single parent family, and suggests ways in which school psychologists can aid schools and single parent families. Presents school-based interventions for children and parents. Suggests changes in administrative policies to meet the needs of single parent families. (Author)

Presents instructional aspects of elementary education classrooms in Mexico. Topics addressed are conditions of instruction, instructional priorities, types of instruction, evaluation of instruction, teacher-pupil relationships, and home-school relationships. Implications are given for teachers in the United States who teach transfer students from…

Recommends a leadership role for school counselors in a school-family-community linked services model for developing comprehensive prevention programs. Explores the roots of students' problems and provides examples of successful prevention programs. Discusses the role of schools and implications of school-linked services for counselors. (RJM)

Describes the Fantastic Follow Through Project at the Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond (Virginia), a partnership serving children through grade three and their families by linking home, community, and school. Program evaluation findings support the usefulness of the approach. Recommendations are made for program improvement. (SLD)

Describes project on making a book of stories told to kindergartners by their Yup'ik families. After parents told children stories, children retold and illustrated them at school, and created books. They wrote letters to parents, shared stories at an open house, and received copies of the book. Project encouraged home-school partnership and…

Suggests that family counseling should be the focus of interventions performed by school counselors; presents a model that is brief, collaborative, and competency-based. This family counseling model has the potential to give school counselors a practical decision-making framework, based on systems theory, for answering important precounseling…

Discusses the meaning and benefits of collaboration and how to determine if a program's policies and standards reflect and reinforce the value of collaboration. Offers strategies for building and sustaining collaborative relationships with families and for supporting the collaborative efforts of teaching staff. (TJQ)

This study examined the beliefs of kindergarten, first-, and second-grade teachers regarding families' competence to contribute knowledge to their child's educational process. Findings suggest the need to consider the beliefs of current, as well as prospective, teachers regarding the frequently neglected "other half" of the partnership,…

Explores home-school relations by using three social psychology theories: (1) symbolic interactionism; (2) social exchange theory; and (3) reference group theory. States that these theories can contribute to the understanding and development of home-school relations in Hong Kong (China). (CMK)

This article discusses the role of families in the functional analysis process. It provides an overview of the functional behavioral assessment (FBA) process, evaluates the conceptual and pragmatic issues surrounding the role of families in functional behavioral assessment, and discusses what roles may be most feasible for families and behavior…

Highlights issues related to the increase of non- traditional families and challenges child care directors to learn about these families. Guides directors in developing good relationships with parents, children, and their own staff and provides a list of sample questions to get information. Includes a 16-item bibliography for further information.…

Reviews family literacy initiatives, arguing that many well-intentioned initiatives are driven by poor assumptions and definitions, are limited in scope, have not been evaluated fully, and fail to achieve genuine collaboration between home, school, and community. Suggests that initiatives should consider how they meet needs of all students and…