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Peer reviewedGray, Susan W.; Wandersman, Lois Pall – Child Development, 1980
Suggests that designing home-based interventions as longitudinal development research (rather than outcome evaluation) can provide valuable knowledge about ecological factors that affect the development of competence in parents and children and about effective ways to support families. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Home Programs, Intervention, Literature Reviews, Longitudinal Studies
Bath, Howard I.; Haapala, David A. – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1993
This study assessed child maltreatment group differences in 530 families receiving intensive family preservation services based on the HOMEBUILDERS model. Results indicated that neglectful families, compared to abusive ones, were poorer and more likely to be headed by a single parent, to have mental health and substance abuse problems, and to have…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Family Counseling, Family Programs
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1979
This essay discusses methodological and ethical problems in the implementation and evaluation of home-based intervention programs for young children and their families. Part I notes the difficulties in (1) selecting an appropriate research design to evaluate a program (e.g., preventing sample bias), (2) specifying precisely the intervention method…
Descriptors: Ethics, Family Programs, Home Programs, Home Visits
