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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 Identify and map all existing primary studies and systematic reviews (published and unpublished) on social, emotional, educational, and behavioural issues in families affected by parental incarceration, creating a live, searchable and publicly available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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Kayleigh Garthwaite; Ruth Patrick; Maddy Power; Rosalie Warnock – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
COVID-19 immediately and radically necessitated changes in the way we worked as social researchers; not only in terms of fieldwork, but also in terms of collaboration. In this paper, we outline the rationale, processes, and potential of a collective of 14 research teams both inside and outside of academia working together across the UK to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Caregivers, Low Income Groups
Makol, Bridget A.; De Los Reyes, Andres; Garrido, Edward; Harlaar, Nicole; Taussig, Heather – Grantee Submission, 2021
Researchers often question the validity of multi-informant assessments among adolescents with child welfare involvement. Yet, within other clinical populations, prior research finds that multi-informant reports have a discernable structure characterized by discrete patterns of agreement and disagreement. This structure "tracks"…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Adolescents
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McKinney, Ailbhe; Weisblatt, Emma J. L.; Hotson, Kathryn L.; Bilal Ahmed, Zahra; Dias, Claudia; BenShalom, Dorit; Foster, Juliet; Murphy, Suzanne; Villar, Sofía S.; Belmonte, Matthew K. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Autistic children and adults who are non-verbal/minimally verbal or have an intellectual disability have often been excluded from Autism Spectrum Disorder research. Historical, practical and theoretical reasons for this exclusion continue to deter some researchers from work with this underserved population. We discuss why these reasons are neither…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Communication Disorders, Intervention
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Tsolidis, Georgina – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This is an exploration of methodological debates related to ethnographic research. Reflection on conducting research on school choice in an Australian regional centre is the beginning point for a discussion of what Appadurai describes as a dialectical relationship between the neighbourhood and its capacity to exist and reshape itself in relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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Wildeman, Christopher; Wakefield, Sara; Turney, Kristin – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2013
In a recent "Journal of Marriage and Family" article, Johnson and Easterling (2012) reviewed research on the effects of parental incarceration on child well-being, focusing on the various conceptual frameworks linking parental incarceration and child well-being and the "important methodological and conceptual challenges related to selection bias"…
Descriptors: Parents, Divorce, Well Being, Children
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Lucksted, Alicia; McFarlane, William; Downing, Donna; Dixon, Lisa – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2012
Among potential resources for people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and their families, professionally delivered family psychoeducation (FPE) is designed to engage, inform, and educate family members, so that they can assist the person with SMI in managing their illness. In this article, we review research regarding FPE outcomes and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Early Intervention, Schizophrenia, Mental Disorders
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Vandenbroeck, Michel; Roets, Griet; Roose, Rudi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
Praxeological research is a necessary contribution to the research field in early childhood education and care, which is currently dominated by an evidence-based paradigm that tends to consider the measurement of predefined outcomes as the most valid form of research. We analyse the history of the evidence-based paradigm in the field of medicine…
Descriptors: Evidence, Models, Early Childhood Education, Quasiexperimental Design
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Aman, Michael G.; McDougle, Christopher J.; Scahill, Lawrence; Handen, Benjamin; Arnold, L. Eugene; Johnson, Cynthia; Stigler, Kimberly A.; Bearss, Karen; Butter, Eric; Swiezy, Naomi B.; Sukhodolsky, Denis D.; Ramadan, Yaser; Pozdol, Stacie L.; Nikolov, Roumen; Lecavalier, Luc; Kohn, Arlene E.; Koenig, Kathleen; Hollway, Jill A.; Korzekwa, Patricia; Gavaletz, Allison; Mulick, James A.; Hall, Kristy L.; Dziura, James; Ritz, Louise; Trollinger, Stacie; Yu, Sunkyung; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wagner, Ann – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: Many children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) have serious, functionally impairing behavioral problems. We tested whether combined treatment (COMB) with risperidone and parent training (PT) in behavior management is superior to medication alone (MED) in improving severe behavioral problems in children with PDDs. Method:…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Hyperactivity, Disabilities
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Guishard, Monique – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
Participatory Action Research (PAR) and its many variants are rapidly gaining prominence as viable research tools and methodological alternatives to address histories of exploitation, surveillance, and social exclusion, deeply embedded in mainstream research. However, it is at this transgressive intersection of theory, action, expertise, power,…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Action Research, Research Methodology, Participatory Research
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Greenbaum, Paul E.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Method effects as a source of construct invalidity were evaluated for parent, teacher, and child ratings of problem behaviors among 489 children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances. Multitrait multimethod analysis indicated large method effects for each rater. Such effects may be measurement artifact, situational differences, or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Children, Construct Validity
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Smyth, Bruce – Family Matters, 2002
This article examines methodological issues confronting the study of qualitative and quantitative differences in ways that separated parents share time with their children. Measurement issues explored include disentangling dimensions of contact, identifying economic implications of contact, and measuring quality of contact. Sampling issues relate…
Descriptors: Children, Divorce, Measurement, Parent Child Relationship
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Rueter, Martha A.; Conger, Rand D. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Based on data collected over a three-year period, found that, when both parents and adolescents exhibited ineffective, coercive behavior, parent-adolescent interactions grew more negative over time. When parents exhibited nurturant behavior and adolescents belligerent behavior, disruptive adolescent behavior resulted in a decline in nurturant…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Child Rearing, Longitudinal Studies
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Chimezie, Amuzie – Child Welfare, 1977
This critique of the Grow-Shapiro study entitled "Black Children--White Parents" A Study of Transracial Adoption" reviews and unfavorably critizes the study and suggests alternative ways of approaching the topic. (MS)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Black Youth, Parents, Racial Attitudes
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Shapiro, Deborah; Grow, Lucille J. – Child Welfare, 1977
A reply to a critique of an article on transracial adoption by the authors. (MS)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Black Youth, Parents, Racial Attitudes
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