This article describes the initial phase of a user-centered, inductive process for informing the development of a smartphone application (app) to complement an in-person trauma-focused knowledge and skills training class for child welfare resource parents (i.e. foster, kinship, and adoptive parents...
To qualify for a scholarship, an applicant must: Be registered for an account on FosterParentCollege.com Have an account that is not under the management of an agency that covers the cost of parent training. Organizations or individuals interested in sponsoring scholarships for Foster Parent College...
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The application of clean and healthy living behavior from an early age can foster character in children in maintaining their health and their environment. The factors that cause children to do PHBS well are good knowledge of mothers so that it is easy for children to implement PHBS from an ...
Don Foster’s stylometric analysis (see Foster,2001, chapter 3) was important for identifying the Unabomber. Also the latter’s sister-in-law, a professor of philosophy came to believe she knew he was the Unabomber because of what he wrote and the way he wrote. See inSection 6.1.10, and...
knowing the child, appreciating everyday positives, increasing involvement with the child, relishing the highs, taking less for granted, letting go, learning, advocating, and experiencing personal growth A positive psychology framework was employed to foster understanding of the interview findings and th...
Parental predictors that affect early EF development include parental psychological factors, interactions, and parenting behaviors. First, depression, a psychological factor for parents, has a negative effect on EF development (Hughes et al. 2013). In particular, maternal or perinatal maternal depression...
meaning in life and/or the sacred as they go deeper within themselves, up and beyond themselves, and sideways and interconnected to others. Practical applications, based in science, are discussed and point to avenues by which these character strengths beatitudes might both foster the appreciating ...