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Download full textClark, Marilyn; Nelson, Judith – 1983
Second in a two-part report on a 1982 study by the staff of the Education and Work program at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), this issue presents the complete findings from case studies of 44 unemployed men and women. In order to determine how unemployment affects people, NWREL's study identified and explored the following four…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Case Studies, Emotional Problems, Employment Problems
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1982
First of a two-part report on a 1982 study by the staff of the Education and Work program at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), this issue presents the preliminary findings from questionnaires (and telephone surveys) of 30 unemployed men and women. In order to determine how unemployment affects people, NWREL's study identified and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dislocated Workers, Emotional Problems, Employment Problems
Heffernan, Judith B.; Heffernan, William D. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Examines the situation of 40 Missouri farm families who were forced out of farming because of financial reasons. Includes family members' experiences with 15 common reactions to stress, sources of help, degree of adjustment to the uniform way of life, and characteristics of families and farms involved in the study. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Coping, Dislocated Workers, Family Characteristics
Peer reviewedKobe, Frank H.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1991
Interviews with 137 primary caregivers with developmentally disabled family members (ages 2-62) on waiting lists for out-of-home placement found that caregiver stress was a significant predictor of the urgency of placement need. Behavior problems of the disabled person were almost as important. Lack of support services was correlated with…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Problems, Children, Crisis Intervention
Eberts, Paul; Khawaja, Marwan – 1987
Conceptualizing high local fiscal stress as a variable which includes low fiscal capacity, high local tax effort and high local need requires building a typology reflecting this conceptualization. This study builds such a typology for 166 counties in the northeastern United States and examines the effects of variables taken from a series of…
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Fiscal Capacity, Government Role, Human Services
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
