Kamp for Kids, an innovative summer recreation program for disabled and nondisabled children, was begun and maintained largely by parents efforts. Families periodically spend a weekend at the camp learning to play together and to function as a unit. (CL)

Families can be an important source of encouragement. The purpose of this article is to help clients identify specific ways that encouragement did or did not take place within both their family of origin and/or in their present family. Actual, ideal, or wanted examples, plus specific examples of encouragement in stepfamilies or blended families…

Describes case study in which family systems approach to treating childhood encopresis based on the hypothesis that problematic elements of the family system were contributing to the encopresis. Nuclear family members were included in a family counseling process that used strategic homework, predictions about family behavior, and restructuring…

Reviews status of family scholarship in 1938, finding that over 800 scholarly works on the family had been published in English by that year. Surveys major conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and topics of concern of that era. Concludes that many important issues of 1930s remain unanswered today. (Author/NB)

Explored relationship between divorce and suicide in Japan. Time series analysis was unable to substantiate divorce-suicide pattern for Japan. Although research did not offer support for relationship between divorce and suicide which Durkheim predicted, it did corroborate Durkheim's general theory of family integration. (Author/NB)

Questions whether gerontologists are creating myth about families by emphasizing individual autonomy as independence without family interdependence and by advocating advance directives. Argues that another antifamily trend is developing despite empirical evidence showing that elderly persons prefer family to represent them in surrogate decision…

Conducted 14 interviews representing 9 families and 10 child deaths to examine definition of family after death of child. Found that, although deceased child continued to be defined as member of family to parents, degree to which this definition of family was presented to outsiders varied. Findings have implications for grief counseling.…

This study was part of a larger regional study of induction-year agricultural education teachers in three Western states. Studies have purported that attitude toward teaching is important for understanding and helping induction-year teachers. Thus, developing an instrument to assess induction-year agricultural education teachers' attitudes toward…

Attrition among the agricultural education profession is concerning as approximately 50% of agriculture teachers leave within the first six years of teaching. Therefore, the purpose of the phenomenological study, conducted from an emic perspective, was to explore and describe secondary agriculture teachers' experiences related to remaining in the…

Families choose to enroll their children in fully online schools for many reasons. Online schools offer the possibility of flexible schedules and the potential to learn at a pace and in a manner that is not available to students in their brick-and-mortar schools (Cavanaugh & Clark, 2007). Because online education can allow for individualized…

Rogoff (2003) argues that "Human development is a cultural process….People develop as participants in cultural communities" (p. 3). Children develop within families, and different cultures reflect differences in how they structure activity for this development. For example, middle class North American families generally would not permit…

Few studies have examined the impact of children with genetic disorders and their unaffected siblings on family functioning. In this study, the reciprocal causal links between problem behaviors and maternal distress were investigated in 150 families containing a child with fragile X syndrome (FXS) and an unaffected sibling. Both children's…

The family assessment is one component of the comprehensive psychiatric assessment of the child or adolescent with a psychiatric disorder. This guideline reviews the basic principles in conducting a family interview that gathers history relevant to the child's disorder and observes family interaction associated with the child's disorder. It…

Few studies have investigated school connectedness from the perspectives of the adults working in the school. Using qualitative methods, the present study examined three dimensions of school connectedness in one urban, low-income middle school. Analyses revealed that school personnel cared for students' needs, sometimes at the expense of holding…

Parents of dependent children make up nearly a quarter (3.9 million) of the undergraduate students in the United States, and half of those parents are single parents (1.9 million). Many are pursuing postsecondary education with the hope of improving their families' lives. Research has shown that their strategy is a good one: postsecondary courses…