Presents data from an ongoing assessment of the functioning of parents and their children during psychological outpatient services. Parallel improvement and strong positive correlations were found between the two groups. (Author/DB)

About 800 families who had adopted children with special needs responded to a survey. Most reported good adoption outcomes. The presence of a handicap, such as a vision or hearing handicap, physical impairment, mental retardation, or serious medical condition, was not an important factor influencing outcome. (Author)

Notes that successful child placement depends on engaging birth or previously adopted children during the adoption process, yet other children are often overlooked when parents are adopting a special-needs child. Presents a model which recognizes dynamics of strength and vulnerability and applies that model to preparing and supporting the adoptive…

Examined relationship between mothers' motivation, capacities, and opportunities, and how much supervision their children received. Compared 95 mothers providing adequate supervision with 37 providing inadequate supervision. Found that second group was less motivated, had fewer problem-solving and social skills, and was more likely to have…

Discusses the rationale and strategies needed to help those children placed in long-term foster family care face the reality of their biological parents through some form of relationship. This idea is illustrated by several case study examples. (Author/BB)

Assessment of disturbed children and their parents in a natural setting, and procedures designed to divide interaction into fine components are basic in the behavioral approach to child and family therapy. (ST)

Examines the process of termination from the stand point of the parents of the child who is ending treatment, pointing out some inevitable consequences of termination which the parents need to be aware of. This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association at New York, N.Y., April 1, 1969. (MG)

Examines factors found among low income groups that differentiate the adequate parent from the neglectful parent. A more extensive version of this paper was presented at the CWLA South Pacific Regional Conference at San Francisco in 1969. (NH)

Describes a study of the effect of several home environmental factors on parent/child relationships. Environmental influences (defined as neighborhood support, home support, income, and the educational level of family members) were studied to determine their individual and collective impact on the achievement of children entering first grade. (RH)

Relates the theory of grief and its resolution to foster parents' experiences of separation and loss, discusses obstacles to healthy grief resolution, and suggests how child welfare agencies and foster parents themselves can help foster parents resolve grief feelings. (Author/DB)

Outlines the difficulties parents face in the first year after childbirth and describes a postpartum intervention program. Obstacles faced by the program due to cultural prohibitions against acknowledging parental ambivalence to a newborn child are also discussed. (Author/DB)

Describes cases of adults whose early developmental years were marked by constant threat of parental abuse and who manifest, as adults, an inability to tolerate aggression or to develop close relationships. Uses Mahler's separation-individuation process framework to provide an understanding of the early foundations of these adults' problems. (SS)

Finds the author most effective when recounting personal experiences of dealing with regulations and bureaucratic procedures of adoption. Finds the book ineffective as a critique of adoption because of a fallacious premise that there is a shortage of children available for those waiting to adopt due to a defective adoption system. (Author/SD)

Discusses issues for child welfare workers seeking to preserve the relationship between incarcerated parents and their children in the wake of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997; the Act advocates swift separation of parent and child and placement of children for adoption. Discusses this public policy, suggesting strategies for permanency…