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The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture. Rice,F. Philip. 8th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c1996.
Adolescent Sexuality: A Comprehensive Peer/Parent Curriculum. Luis A. Wodarski and John S. Wodarski. Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : C.C. Thomas, c1995.
Abortion and Unborn Human Life. Lee, Patrick. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c1996.
Adulthood and Aging: Research on Continuities and Discontinuities. L. Bengston, Editor. New York: Springer Pub., c1996.
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp., c1993.
The Aesthetics of Play: A Didactic Study of Play and Culture in Preschools. Lindqvist, Gunilla. Uppsala University: Stockholm: Distributor, Almvist and Wiksell International, 1995.
Aging and Generational Relations over the Life Course: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective. Edited by Tamara K. Hareven. Berlin: New York: W. de Gruyter, 1996.
Aging Well: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by W. Edward Folts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong. Quayle, Dan and Diane Medved. 1sted. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, c1996.
Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914. Prepared for the Economic History Society. Anderson, Michael. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
The Apsac Handbook on Child Maltreatment. Editors: John Briere et al. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c1996.
The Arts and Human Development. (1994) -Howard Gardner (Basic
Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299) $16.00, trade paperback.
First published in 1973, this work suggests that the arts involve a communication
of subjective knowledge between individuals through the creation of "nontranslatable
sensuous objects." When involved with the arts, people create and perceive
symbolic objects that can affect others on a variety of levels. The author
posits three systems, present in humans at birth, that make involvement
in the arts possible; these systems are making, perceiving, and feeling.
Tracing the process through which infants become symbol using young children,
the author notes that the earliest years make an important contribution
to later artistic participation. In the feeling realm, infants begin to
understand communications of mood on the part of others. In the making realm,
one year olds begin to use rhythm (including rhythmic drawing strokes).
Perceiving (the perceptual discrimination required in the arts) may begin
in the first year, as infants learn to recognize pictures and musical examples,
with some children tending to understand and express themselves musically
before they do linguistically. in toddlerhood and beyond, symbol systems
confer enormous power upon the child at the same time that the child experiences
new feelings (more subtle and complex, perhaps, than those of infancy),
makes finer discriminations, and evolves more intricate motor patterns.
All these will eventually be combined with the various symbolic systems,
potentially producing an enormously rich and varied creator, perceiver,
performer, and/or audience member."
Assessment and Instruction of Social Skills. Linda K. Elksnin, Nick Elksnin. San Diego: Singular Pub. Group, c1995.
Attention in Early Development: Themes and Variations. Holly Alliger Rupp and Mary Klevjord Rothbart. New York: Oxford University Press, c1996.
Audiovisual Resources for Family Programming. Barbara Jordan and Noreen Stackpole: with the assistance of the staff of Middle Country Library. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, c1995.
Becoming a Father: Contemporary, Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives. Jerrold Lee Sharpiro, Michael J. Diamund, Martin Greenberg, editors. New York, NY: Springer Pub. Co., c1995.
Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method and Evidence. Larry Laudan. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, c1996.
Beyond the Traditional Family: Voices of Diversity. Betty Polisar Reigot, Rita K. Spina. New York: Springer Pub. Co., c1996.
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives. Richard J. Gelles. New York, New York: Basic Books, c1996.
Caring for Your School-Age Child: Ages 5 to 12. Editor-in-Chief, Edward L. Schor, et al. New York: Bantam Books, c1995.
Challenging Conceptions: Pregnancy and Parenting Beyond the Traditional Family. Saffron, Lisa. London: Cassell, c1994.
Child Care and the ADA: A Handbook for Inclusive Programs. Victoria Youcha Raband Karren Ikeda Wood with a special contribution from Janeen McCracken Taylor. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, c1995.
Child Play: Its Importance for Human Development. Peter Slade. London: Bristol, Pa.: J. Kingsley Publishers, c1995.
Childhood's Secrets: Intimacy, Privacy, and the Self Reconsidered. Max Van Manen, Bas Levering. New York: Teachers College Press, c1996.
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500. Hugh Cunningham. London: New York: Longman, 1995.
Children and the Politics of Culture. Sharon Stephens, editor. Princeton,N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1995.
Children, Families, and Government: Preparing for the Twenty-first
Century. (1996) Edward F. Zigler, Sharon Lynn Kagan, and Nancy W. Hall
(Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211)
$69.95, hardback; $24.95, paperback.
Since the forerunner of this volume was published in 1983, the social and
political landscape of the United States has changed dramatically, particularly
in the arena of child and family life. Even as families and children face
new challenges and media attention to child and family matters is at an
all-time high, the editors note, effective policy solutions often seem to
be absent. Believing that policy must be built on a solid, empirical understanding
of what we know about the needs of children, the editors also believe that
some social conditions are so severe and pressing as to warrant policy construction
or immediate pragmatic action even in the absence of a consensual body of
data. They have therefore asked all contributors to the volume to address
the importance of scholarship, the positive and negative ramifications of
policy action and inaction, the idiosyncratic nature of the policy process,
the importance of context and timing, and the nature of federalism.
The book's three sections: 1) explore social policy performance with regard
to children and families nationally and internationally; 2) examine specific
social problems (including welfare reform, child care, family leave, the
needs of children with disabilities, child abuse, and adolescent pregnancy
and parenting, among others); and 3) discuss influences on the policy process,
including multiculturalism and the media. Contributors include Meryl Frank,
James Gallagher, , Sheila Kamerman, Joan Kaufman, Lorraine Klerman, Jane
Knitzer, Susan Muenchow, Victoria Seitz, Sally Styfco, Sheldon White, and
Brian Wilcox, among others.
Children in Court: Public Policymaking and Federal Court Decision. Susan Gluck Mezey. United States, State University of New York Press, c1996.
Children in the International Political Economy. George Kent. MacMillan Press, Ltd. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, c1995.
Children's Mental Health Services: Research, Policy and Evaluation. Leonard Bickman and Debra J. Rog,editors. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, c1995.
Children's Rights Re-Visioned: Philosophical Readings. Rosalind Ekman Ladd. Belmont: Wadsworth, c1996.
Communication Development and Disorders in African-American Children: Research, Assessment, and Intervention. Edited by Alan Kamhi, Karen E. Pullock, Joyce L. Harris. United States Paul H. Brookes c1996.
The Company They Keep: Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence. Edited by William M. Bukowski, Andrew Newcomb, Willard Hartup. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, c1996.
Contemporary Grandparenting. Arthur Kornhaber. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, c1996.
Crisis and Continuity: The Jewish Family in the 21st Century. Edited by Norman Linzer, Irving N. Levitz, David J. Schnall. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav. Pub. House, c1995.
The Culture of Education. (1996) Jerome Bruner (Harvard University
Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) $24.95.
"A system of education," argues Jerome Bruner, "must help
those growing up in a culture find an identity within that culture. Without
it, they stumble in their effort after meaning. It is only in the narrative
mode that one can construct an identity and find a place in one's culture....
A failure to equip minds with the skills for understanding and feeling and
acting in the cultural world ... risks creating alienation, defiance, and
practical incompetence. And all of these undermine the viability of a culture."
Recognizing that schooling is only one small part of how a culture educates
its children, Bruner draws on his own and others' research to describe new
perspectives on teaching and learning. The new "pedagogy of mutuality,"
for example, presumes that all human minds are capable of holding beliefs
and ideas which, through discussion and interaction can be moved toward
some shared frame of reference. Contributing to this perspective are research
on infant-mother intersubjectivity, the young child's theories of mind,
metacognition, and collaborative learning and problem solving. Looking ahead
to psychology's "next chapter," Bruner suggests that "if
psychology is to get ahead in understanding human nature and the human condition,
it must learn to understand the subtle interplay of biology and culture....
The dilemma in the study of man is to grasp not only the causal principles
of his biology and his evolution, but to understand these in the light of
the interpretive processes involved in meaning making."
Early Intervention: Cross-Cultural Experiences with a Mediational
Approach. (1996) Pnina S. Klein (Garland Publishing, Inc., 717
Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10022) $35.00.
In our rapidly changing world, Pnina Klein observes, one can hardly predict
the situations that a child will be required to cope with in the future.
Under such conditions, young children need to develop flexibility of mind,
an ability to learn from new experiences and become more sensitive and socially
adjusted. What children learn may differ from family to family and from
culture to culture, but the factors that turn an adult child interaction
into an enriching learning experience for a child may be identified within
existing childrearing practices, and parents or caregivers can be helped
to identify and increase them within interactions with children.
This book presents a theoretical and practical model for early intervention,
the Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC), and documents
its cross-cultural application in Israel, Sweden, the United States, Ethiopia,
Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. Rather than focusing on enhancing children's specific
skills or abilities, the MISC is primarily concerned with affecting children's
need systems and creating dispositions that are essential for future learning.
These are: 1) focusing on things; 2) seeking meaning; 3) inquiring about
and associating past, present, and future experiences; 4) seeking success
or approval; 5) evaluating one's own actions; and 6) planning before doing.
Rather than training caregivers with structured materials, the MISC approach
Id sensitizes" caregivers in three domains: 1) their own conceptions
of their children, themselves, their power to affect children's development,
and their objectives in childrearing; 2) the need for establishing and maintaining
an expressive communicative cycle of interaction with the children; and
3) an awareness of basic patterns or criteria of adult-child interaction
that constitute a mediated learning experience for young children. In addition
to describing and illustrating the MISC approach, the book provides observational
guidelines and examples of MISC training materials used in different countries.
Emotional Development in Atypical Children. Edited by Michael Lewis, Margaret Wolan Sullivan. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c1996.
Emotional Development: The Organization of Emotional Life in the Early
Years. (1996) -L. Alan Sroufe (Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th
Street, New York, NY 10011-4211) $49.95.
The subject of this book is human emotion, with a focus on the early years
and the core developmental processes underlying the emergence of specific
emotions and the capacity for emotion regulation. Sroufe discusses the expression
of specific emotions (such as joy, fear, and anger), more complex emotional
reactions, the place of emotion in the organization and stream of behavior,
ties between emotion and other aspects of functioning (such as cognition),
and the management or regulation of emotions. Using a central concept of
regulation, Sroufe also includes aspects of cognitive, social, and physiological
development, as well as particular aspects of attachment. The author suggests
that all emotions are expressions of arousal or "tension": Whether
a given emotion can or does occur depends on the developed capacity to generate
tension and on the meaning of an event in its context, which changes with
age. In considering both normative development and individual differences,
a central thesis of this book is that development always builds on what
was previously present. Emerging forms of emotion build on precursors, and
individual patterns of emotional regulation build on patterns of regulation
earlier achieved within the caregiving relationship.
Everyday Social Interaction: A Program for People with Disabilities. Vivienne Riches. 2nd ed. United States, Paul H. Brookes, c1996.
Explaining Family Interactions. Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Anita L. Vangelisti, editors. Thousand Oaks, Sage, c1995.
Families Speak Out: International Perspectives on Families. Experiences of Disability. Compiled by Helle Mittler. Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books, c1995.
Family and Human Development Across Cultures: A View from the Other Side. Cigdem Kagitcibasi. Mahway, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, c1996.
Family Beyond Family: The Surrogate Parent in Schools and Other Community Agencies. Sanford Weinstein. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, c1995.
Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity. Scott Coltrane. New York: Oxford University Press, c1996.
Family Violence from a Communication Perspective. Edited by Dudley D. Cahn and Sally Lloyd. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c1996.
Fatherhood: Contemporary Theory, Research, and Social Policy. Edited by William Marsiglio. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, c1995.
Fathers as Primary Caregivers. Brenda Geiger. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, c1996.
First Do No Harm: The Sexual Abuse Industry. Felicity Goodyear-Smith. Auckland, N.Z.: Benton-Guy Publishing, c1993.
From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States. Jere Behrman, Robert Pollak, and Paul Taubman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1995.
Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth. Henry A. Giroux. United States: Routledge, c1996.
The Future of Play Theory: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry into the Contributions of Brian Sutton-Smith. Edited by Anthony Pellegrini. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1995.
Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries. Edited by Karen Oppenheim Mason and An-Magritt Jensen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c1995.
Gifted Children: Myths and Realities. Ellen Winner. New York: Basic Books, c1996.
Growing Up: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia. Gwen Broude. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIU, c1995.
Growing Up in Europe: Contemporary Horizons in Childhood and Youth Studies. Edited by Lynne Chisholm. New York: Walter de Gruyter, c1995.
Growing Up in Twentieth-Century America: A History and Reference Guide. Elliott West. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1996.
Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement. Charles A. Corr, David E. Balk, editors. New York, NY: Springer, c1996.
Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement. Charles A. Corr, Donna M. Corr, editors. New York: Springer Publishing Co., c1996.
A History of Childhood and Disability. Philip Safford and Elizabeth J. Safford. New York: Teachers College Press, c1996.
Human Attachment. Virginia Colin. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1996.
Images of Childhood. Edited by C. Philip Hwang, Michael Lamb, Irving Sigel. United States: Lawrence Erlbaum, c1996.
The Impact of Violence on the Family: Treatment Approaches for Therapists and Other Professionals. Dean Busby, editor. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c1996.
Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Resource Mobilization in Low-Income Countries. Edited by James R. Himes. U.S.A. and Canada: Kluwer Law International, c1995.
The Inner World of the Immigrant Child. Cristina Igua. New York: St. Martin's Press, c1995.
Intimate Worlds: Life Inside the Family. Maggie Scarf. New York: Random House, c1995.
The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100-1350. James A. Schultz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c1995.
Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind
(1996) Katherine Nelson (Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th Street,
New York, NY 10011-4211) $49.95.
The basic premise of this book is that language is a catalyst of cognitive
change during early to middle childhood. Focusing on the young child (from
roughly 1 to 5 years of age) in a sociocultural world, learning and using
language for her own purposes, becoming a more skilled and better informed
participant in the activities of that world, the book brings together disparate
views of the child's cognitive development from biological foundations,
cultural contexts, mental constructions, and social influences in order
to create a model of cognitive development that recognizes the central role
of communication and, in particular, the role of language. The author sees
her challenge as understanding how the open nonverbal, illiterate, and ignorant
mind of the infant comes to acquire the knowledge domains, categories, and
theories that Western culture (among others) embraces.
Nelson argues that the individual child constructs representations of the
real experienced world, of desired states, of pretend worlds, of others'
worlds and that these representations are from the beginning constructed
in collaboration with social others, adults and peers. In a process of collaborative
construction, the young child moves from mimetic activities (routines, play)
to the use of narrative, and thence to the use of the full range of a culture's
symbols. As the author observes, "The shared meanings of the community
thus gradually enter into the individual child's knowledge representations
and to a large, but nonetheless limited, extent take over the child's mind.
Thus individuality is balanced with sociality."
Lasting Marriages: Men and Women Growing Together. Richard Mackey and Bernard O'Brien. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, c1995.
Learning the Rules: The Anatomy of Children's Relationships. Brian Bigelow, Geoffrey Tesson, John Lewko. New York: Guilford Press, c1996.
Lesbian Motherhood: An Exploration of Canadian Lesbian Families. Fiona Nelson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1996.
The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children. D. Merilee Clunis, G. Dorsey Green. Seattle, Wash.: Seal Press, c1995.
Lesbian Parenting: Living with Pride and Prejudice. Edited by Katherine Arnup. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy, c1995.
Looking In, Looking Out: Redefining Child Care and Early Education
in a Diverse Society. (1996) Hedy NaiLin Chang, Amy Muckelroy, and Dora
Puhdo-Tobiassen (California Tomorrow, Fort Mason Center, Building B, San
Francisco, CA 94123) $27.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. Quantity discounts
available.
Designed to provide readers with a comprehensive "framework and vision"
for early childhood education in an increasingly ethnically diverse society,
this report is based on site visits and more than 400 interviews with parents,
child care providers, resource and referral staff trainers, community college
faculty, and others involved in the preparation of child care professionals.
The report's guiding premise is that young children's experience in child
care can influence how they feel about themselves as well as their ability
to connect to their families and communities; child care can shape their
views about how they should interact with children and adults who look,
speak, and act differently from themselves.
In the report, California Tomorrow offers a set of five Principles of Quality
Care in a Diverse Society. These are:
The report's discussion of these principles is followed by an analysis of the implications of the authors' findings for professional development, recruitment, and additional research on child development.
Marriage, Family and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies. Michael M. Sheehan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1996.
Motherguilt: How our Culture Blames Mothers for What's Wrong with Society. Diane Eyer. New York: Times Books/Random House, c1996.
Multicultural Counseling in a Divided and Traumatized Society: The Meaning of Childhood and Adolescence in South Africa. Joyce Hickson and Susan Kriegler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1996.
Multicultural Issues in Child Care, Second Edition. (1997) -Janet
Gonzalez-Mena (Mayfield Publishing Company, 1280 Villa Street, Mountain
View, California 94041) $12.95. Quantity discounts available.
This book, the author observes, is about conflict. "When cultures collide,"
she observes, "we can't just 'make nice' and hope the differences will
resolve by themselves." This book, therefore, was designed when first
published in 1993 to open people's eyes to cultural diversity and to help
adults relate across cultures with both children and adults. The second
edition contains more examples than the first of cultural differences and
potential differences that can arise in such areas as toilet training, feeding
and sleeping routines, attachment and separation, play and exploration,
and socialization. Gonzalez-Mena emphasizes practical, immediate concerns
and strategies for resolving differences, living with them, gaining from
them, and celebrating them. The new edition also includes a bibliography
of books and articles designed to help students learn about new ideas and
cultures.
The National Directory of Children, Youth and Families Services, 12th
edition. (1996) -Marion L. Peterson, Publisher (National Directory,
P.O. Box 1837, Longmont, CO 80502-1837) $84.00 plus $6.00 shipping.
The 1996-97 edition of this 900-page guide provides the names of key professionals,
descriptions of services, current addresses, and phone and fax numbers for
state, county, and independent city human and social services, health, juvenile
justice, and other agencies and services. Specific categories include foster
care, adoption, emergency services, mental health, alcohol and substance
abuse services, juvenile and family court judges, public and private treatment
centers, information/referral phone numbers, and community service programs.
A directory of "who's who in federal and national children, youth,
and families services" provides information about Washington, D.C.,
Regional Federal Offices, national resource centers and clearinghouses,
and national organizations concerned with children, youth, and families.
The New Poverty: Homeless Families in America. Ralph DaCosta Nunez. New York: Insight Books, c1996.
Observation and Participation in Early Childhood Settings: A Practicum Guide. Jean Billman, Janice Sherman. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c1996.
Observing Children in their Natural Worlds: A Methodological Primer. Anthony D. Pellegrini. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, c1996.
The Parental Voice: Problems Faced by Parents of the Deaf-Blind, Severely and Profoundly Handicapped Child. Edited by Robert Holzberg and SaraWalsh-Burton. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, c1996.
Parenting Without Punishment: Making Problem Behavior Work for You. John W. Maag. United States: Charles Press Publishers, c1996.
Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences. Sara Harkness, Charles Super, editors. New York: Guilford Press, c1996.
The Parent's Preschooler Dictionary: Commonsense Solutions to Early Childhood Behavioral Problems. Elinor Verbille. Totowa, N.J.: Humana Press, c1995.
A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks. Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson. New York: Plume, c1996.
Prenatal Exposure to Drugs and Alcohol: Characteristics and Educational Implications of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Cocaine/Polydrug Effects. Jeanette Soby. Springfield, Ill.: CC Thomas, c1994.
Preparing Personnel to Work with Infants and Young Children and Their Families: A Team Approach. Edited by Diane Bricker and Anne Widerstrom. Baltimore: P.H. Brookes Pub. Co., c1996.
Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment. James Garbarino. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c1995.
Raising Our Future: Families, Schools, and Communities Joining Together: A National Resource Guide of Family Support and Education Programs for Parents, Educators, Community Leaders and Policy Makers. Cambridge,MA.: Harvard Family Research Project, c1995.
Rape of the Innocent: Understanding and Preventing Child Sexual Abuse. Juliann Whetsell-Mitchell. Washington, DC: Accelerated Development, c1995.
Redefining Family Support: Innovations in Public-Private Partnerships. Edited by George Singer, Laurie Powers, and Ardis Olson. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., c1996.
Rethinking Pull-Out Services in Early Intervention: A Professional Resource. Edited by R.A. McWilliam. Baltimore: P.H. Brookes Pub. Co., c1996.
Sexuality and the Schools: Handling the Critical Issues. Joan Curcio, Luis Berlin, Patricia First. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press, c1996.
Skills Training for Children with Behavioral Disorders: A Parent and Therapist Guidebook. Michael Bloomquist. New York: Guilford Press, c1996.
Straight Parents/Gay Children: Keeping Families Together. Robert A. Bernstein. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press: Emergyville, CA. Publishers Group West, c1995.
Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930. Carolyn Steedman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c1995.
Strengthening the Family: Implications for International Development. Marian Zeitlin, et al. New York: United Nations University Press, c1995.
Stress, Coping, and Resiliency in Children and Families. Edited by E. Marvis Hetherington, Elaine Blechman. Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, c1996.
Substance Abuse Among Children and Adolescents: Its Nature, Extent, and Effects from Conception to Adulthood. Ann Marie Pagliaro and Louis A. Pagliaro. New York: John Wiley, c1996.
Supporting Latino Families: Lessons from Exemplary Programs-Volumes
I and II, resumens en espanol. (1996) Angela Shartrand (Harvard Family
Research Project, 38 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138) $14.95 for both
volumes, plus $3.50 shipping and handling.
This report highlights 11 family support programs that are serving the Latino
population, one of the fastest growing groups in the United States. Beginning
with an outreach letter to selected family support programs from the Family
Resource Coalition's Latino Caucus mailing list, the researchers selected
a diverse group of programs serving young Latino children and their families;
they then used document analysis, telephone interviews with directors and
program staff, and parent focus groups at four sites to create the report.
Volume I of the report analyzes the programs' strategies and distills lessons
for practitioners. Volume II provides an indepth profile of each of the
11 programs, including its history, key features, evaluations, funding sources,
and contacts for further information. The report found that good programs:
1) incorporate concepts of "bien educado" into their philosophies;
2) help families navigate an often intimidating US "system"; 3)
provide culturally and linguistically relevant child care; and 4) encourage
community involvement and leadership.
Systemic Treatment of Families Who Abuse. Eliana Gil. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1996.
Treating Abused Adolescents. Eliana Gil. New York: Guilford Press, c1996.
Treating the Changing Family: Handling Normative and Unusual Events. Edited by Michele Harway. New York: Wiley, c1996.
Understanding Families: Diversity, Continuity, and Change. George E. Dickinson, Michael Leming. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1995.
Understanding the Human Being: The Importance of the First Three Years of Life. Mountain View, Calif.: Nienhuis Montessori USA, c1991.
The Value of Family: A Blueprint for the 21st Century. Ruth Wertheimer and Ben Yaguda. New York: Warner Books, c1996.
The Variety of Community Experience: Qualitative Studies of Family and Community Life. Edited by Steven Taylor, Robert Bugdan, and Zana Marie Lutfiyya. Baltimore: P.H. Brooks pub. Co., c1995.
What Does Your Wife Do?: Gender and the Transformation of Family Life. Leonard Beeghley. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, c1996.
What Parents Need to Know about Dating Violence. Barrie Levy and Patricia Giggans. Seattle, Wash.: Seal Press by Publishers Group West, c1995.
When Parents Have Problems: A Book for Teens and Older Children with an Abusive, Alcoholic, or Mentally Ill Parent. Susan B. Miller. Springfield, Ill.: C.C. Thomas, c1995.
Women at Risk: Domestic Violence and Women's Health. Evan Stark, Anne Flitcraft. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, c1996.
Working with Children and Families Affected by Substance Abuse: A Guide for Early Childhood Education and Human Service Staff. Kathleen Watkins and Lucius Durant, Jr. Englewood Cliffs,NJ.: Center for Applied Research in Education, c1996.
Youth in Europe. Edited by Alessandro Cavalli and Olivier Galland. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc. c1995.
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