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Kohut, Nester C. – 1979
Family conservation is a new approach for strengthening nuclear families on a system level. The family communiversity is an agency developed to effect that approach. A discussion of family conservation on the systems level concerns the need for coping with those forces detrimental to families. The objective of family conservation is to maximize…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Coping, Delivery Systems, Divorce
Black, Maureen M.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
Analysis of service needs of families caring for 571 young adults with mental retardation found that requests for community living were related more to family stressors than to characteristics of the young adult or participation in regular daytime activities. Services most requested were those representing normalizing activities. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adult Children, Community Programs, Family Environment, Family Life
