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Doueck, Howard J.; And Others – Family Relations, 1988
Describes how intervention for families with abused or neglected adolescents usually focuses on the troubled youth with the abuse or neglect either overlooked or ignored. Argues that a developmental perspective is essential to the understanding and assessment of the family dynamics of adolescent mistreatment, and presents case examples. Offers…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Development
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Reganick, Karol A. – Childhood Education, 1997
Notes that children and adolescents appear to suffer the most detrimental effects of homelessness. Discusses the problems faced by homeless youth and the educational systems that must respond to them, including causes and demographics of homelessness, detrimental effects of shelters, the victimization of homeless adolescents, and educational and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Development, Childhood Needs
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Court, Nancy J. – Social Work, 1980
Describes advantages of "time line" therapy with 5- to 8-year-old children with history of traumatic experiences. Therapist draws line and, beginning with child's birth, marks below line traumatic events (divorce, hospitalizations, death, accidents). Above line therapist marks child's developmental behaviors and feelings about events.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Needs, Counseling Techniques
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Lochman, John E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
This paper reviews how cascading levels of contextual influences, starting with family factors and extending to neighborhood and school factors, can affect children's behavioral and emotional development. The ability of contextual factors to trigger or to attenuate children's underlying temperament and biological risk factors is emphasized.…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, High Risk Students, Context Effect, Student Behavior
National Inst. of Nursing Research (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1993
This publication reports the findings of an expert panel convened by the National Center for Nursing Research to address health promotion for older children and adolescents (ages 8 through 18), the role of nurses, and the contributions of nursing science. Three chapters focus on basic science, intervention, and application. Each chapter includes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Development, Cognitive Development
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Delaney, Elizabeth M.; Kaiser, Ann P. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1996
Examines the effects of poverty on parenting, noting the work of the Kennedy Center at Peabody College and discussing parenting as a process, how parents are influenced by poverty, how parenting in poverty influences children's development, how children are directly and indirectly influenced by poverty, and factors that mediate the debilitating…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Child Health, Child Rearing