Practical Concerns about Siblings
Practical Concerns about Siblings

Author: Frances Fuchs Schachter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780866566476

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Focusing on practical concerns and on current research, this new volume examines common sibling problems. The research findings, some published for the first time in this book, reveal the diverse ways that the sibling relationship contributes to the harmony or disharmony of the family and to the pattern of individual children's development within the family. This comprehensive volume will prove valuable to a broad range of professionals working with children and families, as well as to parents. The contributors attempt to bridge the gap between research and the practices of parents, therapists and educators. Common problems are examined, such as favoritism and the effects of a new sister or brother on a sibling. The concerns of children in special sibling relations, children in one-parent families, siblings of the mentally ill and disabled, and children facing the imminent death of a sibling, are also explored.

The Effects of Autism on the Family
The Effects of Autism on the Family

Author: Eric Schopler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1489922938

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As the oldest statewide program serving autistic people in the United States, North Carolina's Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped CHildren) has had a major impact on ser vices for these people and their families. As we move into our second decade, we are frequently questioned about all aspects of our procedures, techniques, and program. Of all the questions that are asked, however, the one that comes up most frequently and seems to set our program apart from others concerns the ways in which we work with families. To help answer this question we identified what we have found to be the major components in our parent-professional relationships, and we elaborate on these with the most current research informa tion, clinical insights, and community knowledge available through the expertise of our distinguished contributors. Our purpose was to collect the most recent information and to organize the resulting volume along the outlines of the par ent-professional relationship found most important in the TEACCH program. Thus, the four main sections of the book include these four major ways profes sionals work with parents: as their advocates, their trainers, their trainees, and their reciprocal emotional support source. To the extent this effort was success ful, we acknowledge that it is easier to organize book chapters along these dimensions than it is to provide their implementation in the field.

The First Compendium of Social Network Research Focusing on Children and Young Adult
The First Compendium of Social Network Research Focusing on Children and Young Adult

Author: Suzanne Salzinger

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 131773937X

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Research on adult personal-social networks has contributed greatly to an understanding of mental health, illness, and responses to stress. Fueled by this successful research and a growing concern for today's youth, the contributors to this volume have conducted investigations into the functioning and structures of the social networks of toddlers, school-age children, adolescents, and college students. The editors of this volume move beyond vague generalizations about characteristic and behavior acquisition through socialization in childhood by applying a longitudinal perspective to the sampling of child, adolescent, and young-adult network research. Social Networks of Children, Adolescents, and College Students unites several major empirical studies of children's social networks, investigating the acquisition of specific behaviors from particular groups of individuals under certain conditions. Topics covered include: * the effects of social networks on child development and disorder * the relationship between social networks and coping with stress the role of friends or groups in positive socialization * Of special interest to practitioners, researchers, and advanced students are: * comparative data on children from other cultural groups and non-mainstream American youths descriptions and evaluations of methodologies * introductory materials by the editors commenting on the field and the research extensive bibliographies

Children with Autism
Children with Autism

Author: Marian Sigman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780674053137

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The authors combine clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations and historical accounts.

Psychological Perspectives On Childhood Exceptionality
Psychological Perspectives On Childhood Exceptionality

Author: Robert T. Brown

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Published: 1986-04-02

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13:

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A balanced and sophisticated presentation of the psychological aspects of exceptionality in children--from the most gifted to the most handicapped--covering assessment, family interactions, and etiology. The book is empirically based, even with topics that have traditionally been clinically oriented, such as classification. Contributors are all recognized authorities in their fields.

Assessment of Young Developmentally Disabled Children
Assessment of Young Developmentally Disabled Children

Author: Theodore D. Wachs

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1475793065

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Our knowledge of the cognitive and social-emotional functioning of developmentally disabled infants and preschoolers derives, in large part, from our assessment of such children. This book has been developed to familiarize readers with the characteristics of developmentally disabled children, and to introduce to readers aspects of measurement that are of relevance to the assessment of atypical infants and preschoolers. The book has been developed with clinicians and prospective clinicians in mind. These are individuals who are committed to the care and education of developmentally disabled infants and preschoolers and the families of those children. The book has thus been written to provide support for the use of assessment data in planning early interven tion programs. Of special note in the development of this edited book is that it is divided into four major parts with interrelated chapters in each part. The authors of chapters in Parts II and III had access to the chapters in Part I before writing their chapters. The summary chap ters found in Part IV were similarly written by authors having access to all chapters in Parts I-III. This approach to the development of an edited book was chosen as a way of ensuring an integration of major concepts throughout the book. This process is also a reflection of our belief that assessment is an interdisciplinary process, involving the syn thesis of a number of diverse interests.

The Family-School Connection
The Family-School Connection

Author: Bruce A. Ryan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995-05-15

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780803973077

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Currently, only about 50% of American youths live in traditional two-parent, first-marriage families. This fact, combined with often bleak economic and social realities, creates the backdrop of interactions between families, children, and schools are examined in this probing volume. Answering a need for evaluative research in this area of increasing public interest, the contributors build a model for evaluation, focusing on the dynamics of family-school connections. How is school achievement influenced by parent-child interactions and the family environment? How do school, family, community, and peer-group connections affect early adolescents? What is the family's role in the success of learning-disabled youth or in school truancy? What effect does parental discord and divorce have on a child's learning? These questions, as well as proposals for intervention and prevention, create the crux of this book designed to inform and motivate readers to respond to one of our country's most fundamental social concerns. Vital reading for everyone who wants to better understand child-school-community interaction, this book especially warrants reading by students, researchers, and other professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, psychology, and social work. "The book should be read by professionals who have contact with schools as part of their brief; by those educators who train the new generation of social workers, psychologists, and teachers; and by researchers who seek to understand the tapestry of social influences on children's development. The book is worth buying alone for the fruits of great scholarship evident in the extensive lists of up-to-date references at the end of each chapter, and in a superb appendix that offers a tour de force of a 19-page bibliography on the topic." --Child and Family Social Work

Methods of Family Research: Clinical populations
Methods of Family Research: Clinical populations

Author: Irving E. Sigel

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780898598278

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Volume I Contents: I.E. Sigel, G. Brody, Preface. P.A. Cowan, C.P. Cowan, Becoming a Family: Research and Intervention. A.V. McGillicuddy-DeLisi, Parental Beliefs Within the Family Context: Development of a Research Program. I.E. Sigel, Journeys in Serendipity: The Development of the Distancing Model. S. Scarr, R.A. Weinberg, The Nature-Nurture Problem Revisited: The Minnesota Adoption Studies. R.D. Parke, In Search of Fathers: A Narrative of an Empirical Journey. G. Brody, Z. Stoneman, Sibling Relationships. J. Brooks-Gunn, Adolescents as Daughters and as Mothers: A Developmental Perspective. J.M. Gottman, Finding the Laws of Close Personal Relationships. R.D. Hess, H. Azuma, Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Studies of Family Effects on School Achievement. F.H. Hooper, J.O. Hooper, The Family as a System of Reciprocal Relations: Searching for a Developmental Lifespan Perspective. Volume II Contents: G. Brody, I.E. Sigel, Preface. R. Forehand, Families with a Conduct Problem Child. Z. Stoneman, G. Brody, Families With Children Who Are Mentally Retarded. S.T. Hauser, The Study of Families and Chronic Illness: Ways of Coping and Interacting. D. Cicchetti, J.T. Manly, A Personal Perspective on Conducting Research with Maltreating Families: Problems and Solutions. N. Long, R. Forehand, Parental Divorce Research. M.E. Lamb, A.B. Elster, Adolescent Parenthood. G. Margolin, Marital Conflict. S. Beach, G. Nelson, Pursuing Research on Major Psychopathology From a Contextual Perspective: The Example of Depression and Marital Discord.