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Download full textMcDaniel, Garry L. – 1989
The Texas Department of Human Services, in collaboration with 13 other public and private organizations, co-sponsored a statewide collaborative elder abuse prevention project, to prevent abuse of elderly and disabled adults. The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive, long-range plan for the prevention of elder abuse, a method for…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elder Abuse, Family Violence, Institutional Cooperation
National Inst. for Advanced Studies, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report provides an executive summary and overviews of the transcripts of each of the seven National hearings held prior to the White House Conference on Families. Involving testimony of citizens and experts, and site visits to innovative programs and groups serving families, the Hearings were held in Kansas, Tennessee, Colorado, Connecticut,…
Descriptors: Conferences, Day Care, Economic Status, Family (Sociological Unit)
Micari, Susan – 1993
This paper examines the concept of friendship that is displayed by an 8-year-old homeless immigrant Taiwanese-Chinese child. Through the use of interviews with the child as well as observations, the author attempts to interpret the child's understanding of friendship according to the theories of cognitive, emotional, and moral development of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Childhood Attitudes, Chinese Americans, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedDavidovich, Jessica R. – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1990
Explores psychological variables which have been identified as characteristic of males who physically abuse their partners to determine which variables explain acts of violently abusive male who engages in spouse abuse. Presents the psychology of wife abuse from the perspectives of personality, social learning theory, and the psychodynamics.…
Descriptors: Anger, Assertiveness, Battered Women, Coping
Texas Univ., Austin. School of Social Work. – 1995
This Kids Count report presents a brief demographic analysis of preventable child deaths in Texas. The analysis integrates quantitative and qualitative information on accidents, homicides, and suicides, with data on deaths from disease and other causes to compare different age groupings, ethnic groups, and time periods. Texas Department of Health…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
Vanier Inst. of the Family, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1992
This document suggests ways in which Canadian organizations in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors can approach the development of policies that are supportive of families. The document is organized into 4 chapters. The first chapter describes changes that have occurred in Canadian Families in the last 50 years. Twelve charts depict data…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Child Rearing, Cooperation, Divorce
