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Tiffany Phu; Elly Miles; Amy Dominguez; Jason Hustedt; Sarah Enos Watamura; BTS Consortium Principal Investigators – Prevention Science, 2025
The Buffering Toxic Stress (BTS) consortium included six sites in locations that varied widely in racial/ethnic composition and population density. Each site tested a promising parent-child intervention designed to supplement Early Head Start (EHS) services and prevent "toxic stress." To better understand family risk in a large and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Parent Child Relationship, Family Programs
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Daragh Bradshaw; Lynn Fenton; Fiona Donson; Aisling Parkes; Ben Raikes; Leonie Ludwig; Julie Poehlmann – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2025
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows. Identify and map all existing primary studies and systematic reviews (published and unpublished) on social, emotional, educational, and behavioural issues in families affected by parental incarceration, creating a live, searchable and publicly available Evidence…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Parents, Child Behavior
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Poon, Cyanea Y. S.; Herrera, Carla; Jarjoura, Roger; McQuillin, Samuel D.; Keller, Thomas E.; Rhodes, Jean E. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
Youth referred to mentoring programs vary considerably in the range and severity of difficulties (i.e., behavioral, internalizing, social and academic) and environmental challenges they face. However, their patterns of risk and corresponding consequences for mentoring have rarely been investigated. This study draws on data for youth participants…
Descriptors: Risk, Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Profiles
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Linsk, Nathan; Mason, Sally; Fendrich, Michael; Bass, Michael; Prubhughate, Priti; Brown, Allene – Journal of Family Social Work, 2009
Grandparents and other relatives increasingly assume the role of primary caregiver to minor children. This study interviewed family members caring for children whose parents were not available due to parental incarceration, other involvement in the criminal justice system, and substance abuse-related issues. Interviews with 25 African American…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Substance Abuse, Time Management, Caregivers
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Momper, Sandra L.; Jackson, Aurora P. – Social Work Research, 2007
Using data from a sample of 150 Native American mothers of a child 6 to 15 years old, this study examined the relations between and among mothers' gambling, parenting in the home environment, social supports, and child behavior problems. Respondents were recruited from a tribal casino on a Great Lakes Indian reservation. Results indicate that…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Child Rearing, Child Behavior
Moore, Kristin Anderson; Hair, Elizabeth C.; Vandivere, Sharon; McPhee, Cameron B.; McNamara, Michelle; Ling, Thomson – Child Trends, 2006
This brief examines the factors related to depressive symptoms among mothers and explores the implications for acting out behavior in their third grade children. The authors found that children's acting out (externalizing) behavior in the third grade can be affected by a variety of difficulties in the lives of their mothers. Some of these…
Descriptors: Child Development, Mothers, Low Income, Financial Problems