| Description |
1 online resource (429 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Preface; Families as Nurturing Systems: An Introduction; Changing Families, Changing Responses; New Directions in Supporting Families; Family Support Across the Life Span and Within Different Settings; From Paradigms to Practice: Future Directions; NEW DIRECTIONS FOR FAMILY RESOURCE AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Supporting and Strengthening Family Functioning: Toward a Congruence Between Principles and Practice; Characteristics of Family Resource Programs; Human Service Intervention Models |
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Relationship Between Positive and Negative Aspects of FunctioningSummary; Conclusion; Personal Social Networks as a Focus of Support; What Are Personal Social Networks?; What Is Support?; Development of the Personal Network: A Model; Networks and the Empowerment Process; The Network Impacts of a Family Support Program: A Case Study; Family Resource and Support Programs: Changes and Challenges in Human Services; Introduction; Premises; Principles; Practices; Origin and Evolution; Challenges; Conclusion |
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Services for Children with Special Needs: Partnerships from the Beginning Between Parents and PractitionersA Shift in Perspective in Providing Services to Children with Special Needs; Obstacles to an Effective Partnership Between Parents and Professionals; Strategies to Improve Relations Between Parents and Professionals; Conclusion: Much Progress-Much More Needed; A Life-span Perspective on Care-giving; Introduction; A Life-span Development Approach; Integrating Care-giving Across the Life-span; Care-giving, Care-withholding and Harm-inflicting Behaviors |
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The Psychological and Social/Economic Contexts of CareCare-giving (and Receiving) as Both a Relationship and a Personal Odyssey; Conclusion; Families, Policy, and Family Support Policies; Barriers to Family Policy; Family Policies: Realistic and Unrealistic Goals; Respite Care; Family Leave; Future Trends in Family Policy; FAMILY SUPPORT ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN AND WITHIN DIFFERENT SETTINGS; Early Family Intervention: Focussing on the Mother's Adaptation-Competence and Quality of Partnership; Outcome of Intervention and Change in Parent Adaptation-Competence and Quality of Partnership |
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The Ongoing Relationship to the IntervenorModels of Intervention Inspired by the Pioneering Studies of Selma Fraiberg; The Intervention Model of the UCLA Family Development Service; Conclusion; The Challenges of Multiple Roles: The Interface Between Work and Family When Children Are Young; Conflicting Obligations vs. Enhancing Opportunities; Beyond Simplistic Thinking; Individual Change Strategies; Structural Change Strategies; Conclusion; The Schools and Family-Oriented Prevention; Family-School Relations in Perspective; Today's Zeitgeist: The Bedrock of Family Resource Programs |
| Summary |
Here is a major new volume for practitioners, researchers, and those concerned with future policies to promote the welfare of children and families. The patterns of support and the ability of family members to care for each other have changed along with the problems for the health and functioning of families. In Families as Nurturing Systems, respected scholars examine the new and emerging directions in the design and implementation of family resources and support programs. They describe and analyze a wide range of program models in the areas of prevention, social support, family resource, and |
| Notes |
Today's Family Resource Programs and the Schools |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Powell, Douglas
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| ISBN |
9781317765622 |
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1317765621 |
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