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Top Ten Activities For Young Children And Dads, Glen F. Palm
Top Ten Activities For Young Children And Dads, Glen F. Palm
Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications
This handout was part of the November Methods & Materials section published by Family Information Services (Minneapolis, MN) and here published with their generous permission..
Making Life Choices : Facilitating Identity Formation In Young Adults, Steven L. Berman
Making Life Choices : Facilitating Identity Formation In Young Adults, Steven L. Berman
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation makes a contribution to the growing literature on identity formation by formulating, implementing, and testing the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention, the Making Life Choices (MLC) Workshops, designed to facilitate the process of identity formation. More specifically, the MLC Workshops were designed to foster the development and use of critical cognitive and communicative skills and competencies in choosing and fulfilling life goals and values. The MLC Workshops consist of a psychosocial group intervention that includes both didactic and group experiential exercises. The primary research question for this study concerned the effectiveness of the MLC Workshop relative to a …
Working With Fathers...Planning For Dads And Kids Together Time, Glen F. Palm
Working With Fathers...Planning For Dads And Kids Together Time, Glen F. Palm
Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications
Part of the "Working with Fathers: Methods and Perspectives" column published by Family Information Services (Minneapolis, MN) and here published with their generous permission..
Working With Fathers...Future Of Fatherhood: The "Next Steps", Glen F. Palm
Working With Fathers...Future Of Fatherhood: The "Next Steps", Glen F. Palm
Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications
Part of the "Working with Fathers: Methods and Perspectives" column published by Family Information Services (Minneapolis, MN) and here published with their generous permission..
Working With Fathers...Father Attachment: Helping Fathers Build A Close Relationship, Glen F. Palm
Working With Fathers...Father Attachment: Helping Fathers Build A Close Relationship, Glen F. Palm
Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications
Part of the "Working with Fathers: Methods and Perspectives" column published by Family Information Services (Minneapolis, MN) and here published with their generous permission..
Comment On: Sexualselection, Physical Attractiveness, And Facial Neoteny: Cross-Cultural Evidence And Implications, Bydoug Jones, L. E. Musselman, J. H. Langlois, Lori A. Roggman
Comment On: Sexualselection, Physical Attractiveness, And Facial Neoteny: Cross-Cultural Evidence And Implications, Bydoug Jones, L. E. Musselman, J. H. Langlois, Lori A. Roggman
Human Development and Family Studies Faculty Publications
Jones's paper is an interesting treatise on the importance of physical attractiveness for sexual selection, but several points raised in it are in need of further consideration.
An Alternating Treatments Comparison Of Two Intensive Interventions For Food Refusal., W H Ahearn, Mary Louise Kerwin, P S Eicher, J Shantz, W Swearingin
An Alternating Treatments Comparison Of Two Intensive Interventions For Food Refusal., W H Ahearn, Mary Louise Kerwin, P S Eicher, J Shantz, W Swearingin
Faculty Scholarship for the College of Science & Mathematics
We compared two treatment packages involving negative reinforcement contingencies for 3 children with chronic food refusal. One involved physically guiding the child to accept food contingent on noncompliance, whereas the other involved nonremoval of the spoon until the child accepted the presented food. Subsequent to baseline, an alternating treatments comparison was implemented in a multiple baseline design across subjects. After each child had been exposed to at least nine sessions of each treatment condition and percentage of bites accepted had increased to at least 80%, the child's caregivers selected the preferred treatment package. The results indicated that both treatments were …
Adolescent Suicide: The Implication Of Coping, Family Functioning And Their Interactions For Prevention And Intervention, Ronald F. Bobner, David M. Weis, Carolyn Ridenour, Pam Gulley Smith, Kathy Kormos, Ben E. Lanpher
Adolescent Suicide: The Implication Of Coping, Family Functioning And Their Interactions For Prevention And Intervention, Ronald F. Bobner, David M. Weis, Carolyn Ridenour, Pam Gulley Smith, Kathy Kormos, Ben E. Lanpher
Educational Leadership Faculty Publications
It has become apparent over the past ten years that the role of the family has been identified as an increasingly significant variable with regard to adolescent suicide. Some authors go as far as to say that "family related factors appear to be, very little information is available about the family characteristics of youths that kill themselves. Furthermore, family characteristics of youths who attempt suicide are often described as a side feature of investigations of other factors, and these generally focus on the family characteristics only after an attempt has occurred. Little is known about those family factors that are …