Discusses how infants and toddlers are affected by violence, and problems they may experience as a result of living in a violent environment. Also discusses the role of child caregivers in providing a safe haven, a stable environment, and consistency, and being effective primary caregivers. (DR)

The Foster Care Charter and the philosophy of the United Kingdom's National Foster Care Association are described. The philosophy distinguishes between "foster carers" and foster parents. (BC)

Describes infant and toddler biting behavior as related to developmental differences in exploring the environment, learning cause-effect relationships, and using power to elicit a response. Discusses ways to deal with biting at each level, how to support parents dealing with the behavior at home, and the importance of taking biting related to…

Presents 10 ways child caregivers can provide themselves with opportunities to develop positive attitudes and improve relationships. Includes visualizing possibilities, setting goals and learning to plan, including personal recreation, finding a mentor, joining a professional organization, keeping a journal, volunteering, striving for balance, and…

Focuses on Latina mothers' well-being and the effects of having a mentally retarded child. Results, based on 148 mothers with and 101 without children with mental retardation, show that the former exhibited significantly higher levels of depressive symptomatology relative to controls. Depression was predicted by low family cohesion and other…

The Caregiver-Environment scale was used to assess the caregiver interaction, play materials, and environmental conditions of 25 infant care centers. Results indicate evidence of construct validity when administrators and caregivers were employed as methods of measuring the effectiveness of the infant care facilities using the scale; however,…

Discusses limited participation by males as family caregivers through the assumption that socialization to dominant gender stereotypes is a universal barrier among men. Seeks to understand the personal meaning caregiving has for men. Utilizes interview data from a sample of 32 men who were chief caregivers for elderly relatives. Discusses ways…

This article presents strategies for improving relationships between child caregivers and families. Strategies include creating family-friendly environments, focusing on the family during phone calls and center tours, supplementing enrollment forms with pages for family books, inviting family members to share stories of their childhood, rethinking…

Preserving the personhood of one's partner emerged as a guiding directive for spouses caring for a partner with dementia. On the basis of data from open-ended interviews with 38 husband and wife caregivers, 4 strategies that facilitate this directive were identified: maintaining continuity, sustaining existing competencies, protecting the partner…

This article examines learning processes of the infant and the caregiver role in the development of social-emotional skills. The "lived experience" model is discussed that takes into account the dual coding of affect and behavior as the architecture of social and emotional development, along with the caregiver role in this process. (Contains…

Examined attitudes of 76 Singaporean preschool teachers and supervisors regarding integrating young children with disabilities into mainstream preschool centers. Findings indicated that the majority of teachers were willing to consider integrating but voiced concerns about their abilities to cope on a daily basis without relevant information about…

Discusses the application of training in social problem solving with family caregivers of persons who have incurred severe physical disabilities. Outlines training procedures (i.e., Project FOCUS) that enable counselors to assist family caregivers in developing effective problem-solving skills that may translate to increased wellness for each…

There is a new National Family Carer Network putting the views across of family carers. They believe family carers have often been given a bad name. Family carers now have more places on the Learning Disability TaskForce, but will it do any better than before? New laws about who can make decisions will help, if they don't imply that parents are…

The large achievement gap between white and minority children cannot be bridged by only improving schools. The factors which need to be looked into are health need of the children, providing stable housing to low-income families and increasing the number of professional caregivers during the out-of- school hours.

The goal of the research reported in this article was to examine the process of forming attachment to caregivers in children new to childcare. We examined child and adult behaviors and the adult's perception of the child at entry, and the ethnic/racial match between the child and caregiver as predictors of attachment relationship quality measured…