Diverse families, competent families : innovations in research and preventive intervention practice / Janet F. Gillespie, Judy Primavera, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillespie, Janet F. (Janet Frances), 1954-

Primavera, Judy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family psychotherapy--United States.

Family psychotherapy.

Families--United States--Psychological aspects.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are you prepared to deliver effective services to a wide range of families and family situations?Diverse Families, Competent Families provides human service professionals with a portrait of the real lives and practical challenges of our nation's families as they face a new millennium. It examines family adaptation and competence in a variety of contexts and situations such as, day-to-day issues of coping and survival, as well as major milestones such as sending children off to school and becoming a caregiver for a family member. This unique book also spans multiple levels of families'existence

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Research on Family Resilience: Room for All and Strength from Each ""; ""Diverse Adaptations of Single Parent, Low-Income Families with Young Children: Implications for Community-Based Prevention and Intervention ""; ""Economic Stress and Psychological Distress Among Urban African American Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Parents ""; ""The Marital Context for Father Involvement with Their Preschool Children: The Role of Partner Support ""

""Children's After School Arrangements: A Study of Self-Care and Developmental Outcomes """"Family Problems and Children's Competencies Over the Early Elementary School Years ""; ""Enhancing Family Competence Through Literacy Activities""; ""Parents' Perceptions of Teacher Outreach and Parent Involvement in Children's Education ""; ""Toward a Model of Latino Parent Advocacy for Educational Change ""; ""Promoting Resilience Among Children of Sandwiched Generation Caregiving Women Through Caregiver Mutual Help ""

""""You Have to Be Real Strong"": Parenting Goals and Strategies of Resilient, Urban, African American, Single Mothers """"Competent Families, Collaborative Professionals: Empowered Parent Education for Low Income, African American Families ""; ""Parental Self-Efficacy and Social Support as Predictors of Parenting Practices and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment in Mexican Immigrant Families ""; ""Index""

Notes:

"Diverse families, competent families: innovations in research and preventive intervention practice has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of prevention & intervention in the community, volume 20, numbers 1/2 2000."--T.p.

First published 2000 by the Haworth Press, Inc.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-78943-1

0-7890-0830-0

1-315-80940-0

1-317-78944-X

9781315809403

OCLC:

884017151