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Download full textHealth Services Administration (DHEW/PHS), Rockville, MD. Bureau of Community Health Services. – 1980
Designed primarily for parents of children with genetic disorders, the booklet provides information about parent groups. Part 1 describes parent groups, including organization, types of groups, and methods of outreach. A sample letter of invitation to attend a parent group and an outline of the initial meeting is included along with a list of…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Genetics, Guidelines, Parent Associations
Peer reviewedChaney, Reece – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1979
Parent study groups have the potential to reach a large segment of the parent population. These self-help groups do not require a substantial number of professionals to provide help for parents. Parents quickly accept study groups because they can readily see the results of their efforts with their children. (Author)
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Parent Associations, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Counseling
Hoppe, Paul – Exceptional Parent, 1979
The author presents several suggestions for the organization of self-help groups for parents of developmentally disabled children. Guidelines stress that parents are the most important advocates their children will ever have and that parents must often meet to share information among themselves. (SBH)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Parent Associations
Peer reviewedSmith, Ann Volkman – Social Work, 1986
Discusses a model for social work intervention with a self-help group in a hospital setting, designed to reach out and support new parents of premature infants in a neonatal intensive care nursery. Social workers serve as family advocates, instructors, consultants, and facilitators for volunteer veteran parents groups. (ABB)
Descriptors: Hospitals, Neonates, Outreach Programs, Parent Associations
Donner, Richard; Fine, Glenda Z. – 1987
This workbook is a guide for the development of self-help/advocacy groups for parents of children and adolescents who have serious emotional problems. The workbook offers background information and then offers guidelines for: (1) creating a beginning plan for the development of a self-help/advocacy group; (2) developing concrete plans for…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Emotional Disturbances, Parent Associations, Parent Counseling
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
This document contains testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine strategies for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Witnesses include the director of the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse, several representatives from Parents Anonymous, a psychiatric social worker who is also a…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Family Role, Federal Aid
PDF pending restorationNorman, Loretta K., Ed.; Friesen, Barbara J. – 1988
This directory contains information about organizations in the United States that offer support, education, referral, advocacy, and other assistance to parents of children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders. Organizations included are those identified as providing one or more of the following services: education and information;…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Information Services
Miles, M. – 1982
The paper reviews current efforts in early identification and provision of services to the hearing impaired in Pakistan and discusses possible strategies over the next 10 years in rural areas which currently offer no services. Needs in the area of preschool identification and intervention are identified and include proper assessment, appropriate…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Identification, Foreign Countries, Handicap Identification
PDF pending restorationYoakum, Katie S., Ed.; Friesen, Barbara J. – 1986
This directory contains information about 214 organizations that offer support, information, and other services to parents of seriously emotionally handicapped children and adolescents in the United States. The directory listings were compiled from information obtained through a 1985-86 survey of parent organizations conducted by the Families as…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Emotional Disturbances, Information Services, Parent Associations
Stuntzner-Gibson, Denise; And Others – 1990
This 60-item bibliography, a compilation of abstracts of books, articles, handbooks, conference proceedings, and newsletters published from 1978 through 1989, addresses various aspects of groups, programs and other self-help resources for parents and other family members of people with disabilities. Literature in the first section provides…
Descriptors: Adults, Advocacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Delivery Systems
