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Parents' decision-making strategies when selecting child care: effects of parental awareness, experience, and education
- Author:
- FULMER K. Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 26(6), December 1998, pp.391-409.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Reports the findings of two Canadian experiments on the effects of parental awareness, parenting experience, and formal education on selecting child care. Results found that mothers at higher levels of parental awareness used less information and demonstrated more variability in their information search patterns. A similar result was obtained for education whereas parental experience was not significant in influencing decision strategies.
An evaluation of a local parent's support group
- Author:
- LONGDEN Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Talking Point, 179, June 1998, pp.1-4.
- Publisher:
- Association of Community Workers
The author, a community activist on an outer estate in Bradford reports on a parent's support group she set up in the local community.
Routes to coherence
- Author:
- JAMIESON Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.6.98, 1998, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Provides a route map of the range of early years services, and suggests how they can be given greater confidence.
Children's Legal Centre sets up Contactline, a new dedicated advice line for contact disputes
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 144, March 1998, p.2.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Reports on an advice line providing highly specialised legal advice pertaining to issues arising in contact disputes which starts on 1 March 1998.
Psychopathy in the relatives of depressed-abused children
- Authors:
- KAUFMAN Joan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(3), March 1998, pp.171-181.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Aims to determine if the type of symptomatology abused children manifest is related to family history of psychopathology. The findings extend results of prior research and (1) suggest familial vulnerability factors influence the symptom profile of abused children; and (2) highlights the value of incorporating psychiatric formulations into multidisciplinary models of child abuse research and treatment programs.
Family law update
- Authors:
- DAWSON Peter, STEVENS Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Justice of the Peace, 7.3.98, 1998, pp.179-182.
- Publisher:
- Butterworth
Presents a legal perspective of how violence has featured in case law on contact of children and their parents.
Good enough parenting: the role of parental education
- Author:
- MORTLEY Emma
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 47p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Research study looking at parent education programmes and considering the implications for social work practice.
Child extrafamilial sexual abuse: predicting parent and child functioning
- Authors:
- MANION Ian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 22(12), December 1998, pp.1285-1304.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Evaluates the emotional and behavioural adjustment of parents and children within 3 months and 1 year after the discovery of extrafamilial sexual abuse. Showed that mothers, fathers and sexually abused children experience clinically significant effects both initially and at 12 months after disclosure. Child age and gender also significantly contributed to the prediction of many of the child
Parenting teenagers programme: a UK retrospective
- Authors:
- ROKER Debi, COLEMAN John
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 12(5), November 1998, pp.359-372.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes research which surveyed the range and nature of 'parenting teenagers' courses currently available in the UK, and identified key characteristics of these courses, including aims, value bases, materials, methods, parents attending, outcomes and evaluation. Identifies a number of key issues and makes recommendations for future practice, policy and research.
The moral majority
- Author:
- JAMES Oliver
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.11.98, 1998, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's intention to stamp out bad parenting has led to criticism of a nanny state out of control. The author disagrees.