This research brief reviews research on why and how family involvement matters for elementary school children's learning and socio-emotional development. Specifically, it summarizes the latest evidence base on effective involvement for elementary school children--that is, the studies that link family involvement in elementary schools to children's…

This parameter presents overarching principles and practices for child and adolescent mental health care in community systems of care. Community systems of care are defined broadly as comprising the wide array of child-serving agencies, programs, and practitioners (both public and private), in addition to natural community supports such as…

Surveyed adolescent and young adult children of dual-career families on satisfaction with the lifestyle and perceptions of family strength. The children viewed the lifestyle positively and scored their families respectively high in family strength, especially the categories of concern and supportiveness. Nonetheless, problem areas such as time…

In a family meeting all members participate equally and try to solve problems that affect each member individually and as a whole. Ground rules for starting a weekly meeting are offered. (DF)

Videotaped interactions between both parents and one adolescent from 54 two-children families. Parents and adolescents viewed tapes and rated themselves and other family members on anxiety, involvement, dominance, and friendliness. Adolescents rated family members as more anxious, less involved and less dominant than did parents, and were rated as…

Assessed the attitudes of parents regarding nurturance and self-determination rights for juveniles. Nurturance rights for juveniles were strongly endorsed. Most parents did not believe that juvenile suspects should be allowed to withhold information from police. Results question parents' abilities to provide meaningful protections for juveniles in…

Presents actions that parents can take to help children prepare to return to school after summer vacation. Ideas highlight reading, writing, vocabulary, computers, family night, television, video games, communicating, music, study habits, encouragement, decision making, behavior, setting limits, modeling, grooming, nagging, toys, equality, school…

In this article, the author proposes a family systems approach, where parents and children alike follow relationship rules that allow no intimidating verbal abuse or physical abuse. Many children who are socially and emotionally disabled, with no presenting biological cause, are often such due to the discomfort they experience in their world of…

In January 2004 faculty from the University of Scranton traveled to Mexico to establish relationships with universities, clinic personnel, hospital personnel, school personnel, and parents in order to increase their understanding of the role disability play in that country. This interdisciplinary group of professionals in special education,…

Support of aging parents is usually credited to daughters. To investigate the nature of support provided by sons and daughters to married or widowed mothers, married and widowed mothers from the 1977 Social Security Administration's Midwestern Retirement Community Study listed important people and details of the support (emotional, social, and…

This brochure presents ideas for creating a special place for a family's reading materials--a"family library"--and for helping children build their own personal collections. The brochure offers a sampling of activities that will help families display and keep track of a growing collection of newspapers, magazines, and books. The brochure…

Research on family interaction has characterized family style on centripetal and centrifugal dimensions, representing opposing natures with their own continua. Centripetal forces produce binding, or a prolonged process of separation of parent and child; centrifugal forces preciptate expelling, or hastened separation and premature autonomy. To…

The final report describes goals and activities of the Family Resource Center, an educational and therapeutic program using a family treatment approach to child abuse. Among family treatment programs considered are intake, behavior management counseling, recreational therapy, supportive services, and diagnostic remedial and behavior management…

The speech briefly addresses a variety of educational needs emerging due to changing social and family influences. The view emphasizes education as life itself rather than preparation for life. Three propositions are developed from this view: 1) we must get away from the notion that education takes place only in a formalized setting; 2) we must…

Explores elements of family conversation, searching for sources of friction between elderly parents and their children and strategies to reduce it. Investigates the following areas for sources of irritation and friction-minimizing strategies: information exchange, privacy and right to know, etiquette of avoidance, expressiveness, empty discourse,…