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Beckman, Paula J.; And Others – Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 1986
Families of full-term (N=17) and preterm (N=17) infants were followed throughout the first year of life to examine amount of (and relationship between) reported stress and support services received. Among results was that stress at three months was significantly negatively related to concurrent measures of formal support. (Author/JW)
Descriptors: Family Problems, Family Programs, Infants, Longitudinal Studies
National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, Washington, DC. – 1985
The booklet presents excerpts from a December 1984 conference (Washington, D.C.) on disabled and at-risk infants, toddlers, and their families. Parents' perspectives are offered on care for medically vulnerable infants and children (by the mother of a ventilator-assisted child), services for children with mild developmental delays (by a mother of…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Family Problems, Family Programs, Family Relationship
Download full textWandersman, Lois Pall; Wandersman, Abraham – 1977
This paper describes the Family Development Project which is aimed at developing a systematic model of parenting support for new families and evaluating its effects on family development. The project focuses on Parenting Groups consisting of 6 to 10 couples who meet together as soon after delivery as possible, weekly for 6 weeks, and monthly for 4…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Discussion Groups, Family Environment, Family Life Education
Peer reviewedHutliner, Patricia – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1988
The effects of stress in families of very young handicapped or at-risk children are pervasive, multiple, and sometimes unsuspected. Stress reduction strategies include building on family strengths, empowering families and children, arranging for medical stabilization, providing social and economic stabilization, providing a functional curriculum,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Family Life, Family Problems
PDF pending restorationWandersman, Lois Pall; Wandersman, Abraham – 1976
This document reports on the Family Development Project which is aimed at developing a systematic model of parenting support for new families and evaluating its effects on family development. Parenting groups of six to ten couples begin meeting about six to eight weeks after delivery and meet weekly for six weeks, then monthly for four more…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Rearing, Discussion Groups, Family Environment
Landdeck-Sisco, Jeanne – 1993
The use of crisis nursery care as a viable alternative for the consumer experiencing chronic and ongoing family crises calls for consideration of various programmatic and staffing issues. Combinations of family problems, including homelessness, substance abuse, incarceration, family violence, and chronic illness of a family member, may precipitate…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Community Services
McBroom, Elizabeth, Ed.; And Others – Social Work Papers of the School of Social Work, University of Southern California, 1981
Included in this booklet are nine papers reflecting the social work profession's engagement in the effort to deal with a variety of problems experienced by families and cultural minorities. Covered by individual papers are the following topics: (1) prevention of the troubled marital relationships that are sometimes brought on by the birth of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asian Americans, Child Abuse, Family Problems
Peer reviewedBurns, M. Susan; And Others – Infants and Young Children, 1996
Three case studies describe intervention with infants/toddlers who were exposed to methadone in utero. Intervention included providing therapeutic nursery services and addressing developmental and mental health needs of the children and the high-risk family systems, including parents' knowledge of child development and parents' emotional support…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Child Development, Drug Abuse
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
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
Lonner, Thomas; And Others – 1994
This study examined barriers to utilizing services for children, birth to age 3, through in-depth individual and group interviews with 70 parents and direct service personnel of provider agencies in seven Washington counties. Part 1 of this report offers examples and discussion of the difficulties parents have accessing services and how localities…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Agency Cooperation, American Indians, Coping
Green, Morris, Ed. – 1994
The goal of the Bright Futures project is to respond to the emerging preventive and health promotion needs of infants, children, and adolescents. Bright Futures is sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the United States Public Health Service and the Medicaid Bureau of the Health Care Financing Administration. Over 100 professionals,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers, Child Health
