Parents of children with autism are faced with higher risks of unemployment, divorce, and poorer mental health than parents of children with other disorders. Such parenting stress can be further exacerbated by cultural and environmental factors such as the more conservative and collectivistic Asian values. Therefore, this review identifies and…

Discusses extending AIDS/HIV counseling in developing countries from individual to family and community as a means of facilitating changes and support. Increases in the capacity of communities to care and hope result from the counseling shift from individuals to communities. Gives examples of such counseling shifts in the countries of Brazil, Sri…

The prevention of child abuse is bound up in the joining together of social nurturance and social control, which flow directly from the concept of support systems. Families involved in maltreatment are likely to be cut off from prosocial support systems. In contrast to psychiatric approaches, more recent behavioristic methods concentrate on…