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Direct linkHoeeg, Didde; Grabowski, Dan; Christensen, Ulla – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: To treat childhood obesity, health education interventions are often aimed at the whole family. However, such interventions seem to have a relatively limited effect on weight loss. The purpose of this paper is to examine how families enrolled in a family-based health education intervention manage the intervention in their daily lives and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Obesity, Child Health, Health Promotion
Peer reviewedPowell, Diane S.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1997
Discusses principles associated with strength-based approaches to support families of children with disabilities: a philosophy based on family strength; a partnership approach to service; a family-centered agenda; an individualized response to family needs; a comprehensive view of family development; and an assessment of outcomes based on family…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement, Family Life
Download full textCharms, Vernon; Butts, Bobbye – 1971
The Family Education Project in Brooklyn was designed to involve selected volunteer families of children enrolled in Head Start. The original proposal foresaw a project of three years' duration, with three separate groups of families participating, so that comparative measurements could be taken on the children in each cycle, as well as on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Black Community, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedBacker, Thomas E.; Richardson, Donald – American Psychologist, 1989
The role of psychologists in helping families of the one in five Americans suffering from mental illness is described. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has been active in bridge building between psychologists and families through enhanced communication and improvements in support systems. An agenda of 15 recommendations for further…
Descriptors: Children, Crisis Intervention, Family Counseling, Family Involvement
Peer reviewedMoon, Sidney M.; Thomas, Volker – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2003
This article proposes and discusses three guiding questions that can help counselors conceptualize and differentiate family therapy with gifted and talented adolescents. The questions address the identification of the problem, deciding who is going to participate in the counseling, and deciding what approach to family therapy will be most…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Family Counseling
Evaluation of an Outward Bound School plus Family Training Program for the Juvenile Status Offender.
Peer reviewedPommier, John Henry; Witt, Peter A. – Therapeutic Recreation Journal, 1995
Evaluation of the impact on several self-perception, behavioral, and family functioning variables of an Outward Bound school program with a family training component for adolescent status offenders indicated that treatment group subjects had significantly higher scores on all variables compared to controls at four weeks, though many differences…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Delinquency
Scannapieco, Maria – Children and Youth Services Review, 1994
Presents an exploratory, descriptive study on family-centered, home-based services, involving a secondary analysis of an existing database. Suggests that both these services are effective in the prevention of placement for both high- and low-risk clients. Notes, however, that home-based services seemed to be more effective with multi-problem…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Peer reviewedUnger, Donald G.; Jones, C. Wayne; Park, Elizabeth; Tressell, Patricia A. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2001
A study investigated why some of the low-income single caregivers of 104 children (ages 7-40 months) with disabilities were more involved in early intervention services than others. Difficulties in family functioning and lower levels of knowledge about child development were directly related to caregiver involvement. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
Peer reviewedMalcolm, Liz; And Others – Children & Society, 1996
Asserts that increasing inter-agency conflict is detrimental to needs of children and families. Presents example of one agency (Educational Psychology Service), suggesting that its pressures are common to all agencies and that recent policies conspire to enhance the power of systems rather than of children and families. Discusses effective…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Educational Legislation
Swick, Kevin J. – 1993
This book provides early childhood educators with perspectives and tools that will enable them to strengthen parents and families during the child's earliest year of development. The 25 chapters are divided into 6 parts or themes. Part one focuses on understanding families as learners from an ecological and empathetic perspective, with the premise…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Children, Community Programs
Upshur, Carole C. – 1994
This speech reports on data collected by the Early Intervention Collaborative Study (EICS), which is a longitudinal study following the development of 190 young children with disabilities (and their families) who entered 29 publicly funded early intervention programs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the period from 1985 to 1987. The…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demography, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities
Families, Disability, and Empowerment: Active Coping Skills and Strategies for Family Interventions.
Singer, George H. S., Ed.; Powers, Laurie E., Ed. – 1993
This book presents strategies for building strong partnerships between service providers and the families of individuals with disabilities. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Contributing to Resilience in Families: An Overview" (George H. S. Singer and Laurie E. Powers); "Parent to Parent Programs: A Unique Form of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Community Services, Disabilities, Emotional Adjustment
