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Peer reviewedMaier, Henry W. – Child and Youth Services, 1987
Argues that child caregivers in group settings are pivotal in providing charges with attention and interpersonal dependence provided to children in familial settings. Explains why group caregivers must understand child development, and how program planners might take development into account. Discusses child and adolescent developmental stages…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Day Care
Peer reviewedMaier, Henry W. – Child and Youth Services, 1987
Reviews recent research studies about child development and child care, examining how an understanding of the former can improve the latter. Outlines what is needed for a sense of being personally cared for, focusing on these themes: bodily comfort, sensitivity to personal differences, rhythmatic interactions, predictability, dependability,…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Day Care
Peer reviewedMaier, Henry W. – Child and Youth Services, 1987
Discusses the interpersonal and organizational underpinnings of group living and residential child care, with group living perceived as an arena for children to practice life's demands. Argues that individual development and change proceed through interpersonal experience and the context in which they occur. (KH)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Day Care
Peer reviewedMaier, Henry W. – Child and Youth Services, 1987
Reviews recent research showing that child and parent, or caregiver and care receiver in nonfamilial, group settings, need each other reciprocally and need to find mutual fit. Focuses on stress laid on importance of dependence support, attachment behavior, and mutuality of caregiver and care receiver. Discusses effect of day care and significance…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Childhood Needs
Peer reviewedMaier, Henry W. – Child and Youth Services, 1987
Provides brief case study of a child care worker in a children's residence and describes the following: (1) the personal ingredients of care giving and care receiving; (2) how spatial arrangements influence daily experience; (3) group living as an everyday life experience; and (4) residential life as a prelude to and extension of a child's home…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Day Care
Download full textEmlen, Arthur C. – 1970
The field study reported examined the attitudes and behavior of working mothers and their neighborhood caregivers (nonrelatives). Data were obtained from interviews with 104 mother-sitter pairs, 39 of whom were friends when the arrangement began, and 65 of whom were strangers. The dynamics of mother-sitter relations prove to be dramatically…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Caregivers, Community Services, Day Care
