Handbook of Parenting and Child Development Across the Lifespan Robert J. McMahon & Dave S. Pasalich 8577 Accesses 4 Citations Abstract The primary purpose of this chapter is to present and critically evaluate current family-based treatments for conduct problems (CP) in children and adolescents....
Corporal punishment (CP) and physical abuse (PA) in childhood are associated with increased risk of child-to-parent violence (CPV). Without context of discipline (i.e., the intention of behavior change, and use of reasonable force), both CP and PA represent the use of physical force agains...
The Center for the Child Care Workforce (formerly the Child Care Employee Project), has provided leadership for a nationwide grassroots effort called the Worthy Wage Campaign, an activist initiative to increase public awareness and to press for a public investment of child care funds directly targete...
childcareexperientiallearningThis article describes the implementation of a service-learning project, which was infused into a child development course. The project linked family child care providers, their licensing agency, and 39 preservice teachers in a joint effort to develop a parent handbook to ...
As a foster parent your role is to meet the day to day needs of the child in your care, and provide encouragement, love and nurture. This includes encouraging your foster child at school, in sports orarts, and helping them be the best they can be. There could also bespecific tasks rel...
Caring for Sexually Abused Children: A Handbook for Families & Churches by R. Timothy KearneyParental support is a crucial factor in a child’s successful recovery following sexual abuse. But supportive adults in the Church also play an important role. Learn a practical, proactive approach to re...
This article focuses on one component of this relationship—partnerships—and reports on the association between parent–professional partnership and both parent empowerment and parenting capabilities in a sample of parents with a child with a disability or developmental delay. The results of this study...
(or parent) and their dependent child(ren). Sociologists have argued that the nuclear family form has developed as a concomitant of industrialization (although there have been suggestions recently that the prior existence of individualistic family structures may have contributed to the rise of ...
Results indicate that respondents in different family structures differ in the perceived quality of parent-child relationships, that differences in family structure are not related to differences in family organization, and that some aspects of family organization are related to marital quality and the ...
To maintain positive health outcomes over the life course, prevention efforts should begin early in childhood. Two research domains that significantly impact the trajectory of health over the life course are childhood obesity and early trauma and violence. Prevention strategies addressing multiple levels ...