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Ordinary Families -Extraordinary Care Giving, John P. Ronnau

Journal of Family Strengths

Children with severe emotional problems often have multiple needs that require disparate services including child welfare, juvenile justice, health, mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation (Stroul, 1996). However, the primary care giving responsibilities for these youngsters still remain with their families. It is the family who shelters and clothes them; provides guidance, affection, recreation, nurturing; gets them to appointments with doctors and therapists and to school dayin- and-day-out, year after year (Lourie, 1995). Despite the invaluable and irreplaceable care provided by families, they are often maligned by a system which characterizes them as having their own problems and inadequacies. …

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Reviews of:

• Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based Step-by-St Guide. (1998) Scott P. Sells. New York: The Guilford Press. Reviewed by John P. Nasuti
• Essential Skills in Family Therapy: From the First Interview to Termination. (1998) JoEllen Patterson, Lee Williams, Claudia Grauf-Grounds, and Larry Chamow. New York: The Guilford Press. Reviewed by Rowena Fong
• Putting Families First America's Family Support Movement and the Challenge of Change. (1994) Sharon L. Kagan and Bernice Weissbound, Editors. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Reviewed by Anthony N. Maluccio The Work-Family Challenge Rethinking Employment. Edited by Susan Lewis and Jeremy Lewis. 1996. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE …

Foreward, William C. Roberts

Coronary Artery Anomalies

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A Fascinating Friends Of The Library Dinner, Vol.11 (7) November - December 1998, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Fascinating Friends Of The Library Dinner, Vol.11 (6) September - October 1998, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Digital Library: Electronic Full-Text Journals, Vol.11 (5) September - October 1998, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Stay Current With Free Pubmed!, Vol.11 (5) July - August 1998, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Second Annual Computers In Health Care Conference, Vol.11 (4) May - June 1998, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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Isolation Of Lautropia Mirabilis From Oral Cavities Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Children, S. N. Rossmann, P. H. Wilson, J. Hicks, B. Carter, S. G. Cron, C. Simon, C. M. Flaitz, G. J. Demmler, W. T. Shearer, M. W. Kline

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Lautropia mirabilis, a pleomorphic, motile, gram-negative coccus, has been isolated from the oral cavities of 32 of 60 (53.3%) children infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 3 of 25 (12.0%) HIV-uninfected controls; the association of L. mirabilis isolation with HIV infection is significant (P < 0.001). All children in the study, both HIV-infected children and controls, were born to HIV-infected mothers. The presence of this bacterium was not associated with clinical disease in these children. The HIV-infected children with L. mirabilis did not differ from the HIV-infected children without L. mirabilis in immunological status, clinical status, or systemic medications. The role of HIV infection itself or concomitant factors in the establishment of L. mirabilis in the oral cavity remains to be elucidated.

Friends Of The Tmc Library Dinner, Vol.11 (3) January - February 1998, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

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The Weekly Adjustment Indicators Checklist: An Application In The Child Welfare Field, Michael H. Epstein, Madhavi Jayanthi, Janet Mckelvey, Deborah Holderness, Erin Frankenberry

Journal of Family Strengths

Research on the effectiveness of various home-based interventions implemented in the 1980s and 1990s indicates that results have been equivocal. Because of the unique and complex behavioral challenges presented by each family and the need for individualized treatments and long-term interventions for these families, group research and evaluation designs are often insufficient in assessing effectiveness of home-based interventions. Alternative evaluation strategies are needed. The purpose of this exploratory study was two-fold: (a) to investigate the applicability and acceptability of the Weekly Adjustment Indicators Checklist (WAIC) in monitoring adult and child behaviors and (b) to monitor, on an on-going basis, the …

Answers From The Editorial, Alvin Sallee

Journal of Family Strengths

Answers from the editorial

Chipping Away At The Monolith: Dispelling The Myth Of Father Noninvolvement In Children's Early Literacy Development, Robert Ortiz

Journal of Family Strengths

Current research stresses the importance of parent involvement in their children 's academic development. Parents reading and writing with their young children is shown to prepare them for the benefits of for ma I education. Studies completed on parent participation in early literacy activities have tended to look at mothers ' role. Few researchers have investigated the contributions fathers have made. The results of a study completed on father-child early literacy practices are presented. Fathers reported engaging in reading and writing activities with their children for three reasons: To prepare their children for school, to bond with their children, and …

Editorial: Take Me Home, Down Country Roads, John Ronnau

Journal of Family Strengths

Those of us committed to the tenets of Family Preservation must advocate for increased awareness and attention to the needs of children and their families in rural America. "Country roads" and the rural spaces they traverse have been eulogized by many poets and song writers as ideal places to live. But they may not be ideal for everyone. The past few months, it has become all too evident that rural America is not immune to acts of extreme violence by troubled children. Even though almost 1/3 of American youth live in rural areas, they have been "virtually ignored by mental …

The Role Of Consistency And Diversity In Building Knowledge In Family Preservation, Debora J. Cavazos Dylla, Marianne Berry

Journal of Family Strengths

Family preservation has been criticized for implementing programs that are not theoretically founded. One result of this circumstance is a lack of information regarding processes and outcomes of family preservation services. The knowledge base of family preservation is thus rather limited at present and will remain limited unless theory is consistently integrated within individual programs. A model for conceptualizing how theoretical consistency may be implemented within programs is presented and applied to family preservation. It is also necessary for programs to establish theoretical consistency before theoretical diversity, both within individual and across multiple programs, in order to advance the field …

Intensive Family Preservation Services: A Short History But A Long Past, Kellie B. Reed, Raymond S. Kirk

Journal of Family Strengths

Intensive family preservation services (IFPS) is a program model that has been disseminated widely throughout the country, and has received federal recognition and monetary support since the early 1980s. Recently, IFPS has been criticized for seemingly being unable to prevent out-of-home placements. The authors contend that many evaluators and policy analysts have lost sight of the historical roots of IFPS, and are focusing only on recent fiscal and policy contexts when assessing IFPS program effectiveness. This article reviews the therapeutic and programmatic origins of IFPS including desired treatment outcomes, and suggests that evaluators and policy analysts redirect their focus accordingly.

Getting To Know You: Psychoeducational Groups To Counter Social Isolation Of Neglectful Mothers, Marianne Berry

Journal of Family Strengths

This research indicates a uniformly positive use of psychoeducational groups to counter social isolation of neglectful mothers. This research was supported by a National Child Welfare Fellowship from the U.S. Children 's Bureau to the author. The author thanks Nancy Dickinson, Sherrill Clark, and the staff of the California Social Work Education Center at the University of California for their oversight and guidance during (his fellowship. The author is also grateful to her fellow fellows for their input and guidance during this research effort. Special thanks to Rose Ben ham, Anna Bowen, Judith Brewington, Caron Byington, Scottye Cash. Dottie Dixon, …

Editorial, Alvin Sallee

Journal of Family Strengths

What Value Family?

Recognizing the Driving Forces of Services for Families

Intensive Family Preservation In Children's Mental Health: Predictors Of Placement, Cathryn C. Potter

Journal of Family Strengths

This article examines the predictors of placement following IFPSfor a sample of child mental health service recipients and their families. Risk and protective factors vary depending on the time frame under consideration. Immediately following service, children 's level of Social/Legal functioning, a previous group home placement, and the presence of mental health problems for other family members increase risk of placement, while the number of follow-up services serves to lessen risk. Three to six months after service, the presence of a child behavior presenting problem and a projected placement in foster care serve as protective factors, while two service targets, …

An Innovative Family Preservation Program In An African American Community: Longitudinal Analysis, Patricia Ciliberti

Journal of Family Strengths

This paper presents a secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal evaluation of a community-based family preservation program in Portland, Oregon, designed for and by African Americans. Families served by the Family Enhancement Program (FEP) resemble chronically neglecting families in terms of numbers of children and length of contact with child protective services. Six- and twelve-month follow-ups for FEP clients were compared to data on families served by the Oregon State Office of Services to Children and Families (SOSCF). The author found that FEP families are more likely than SOSCFfamilies to show greater improvement between the pretest scores and the …

Collaborative Conversations For Change: A Solutionfocused Approach To Family Centered Practice, Donald F. Fausel

Journal of Family Strengths

The renewed interest in Family Centered Practice, prompted by the funding of Family Preservation and Support Programs, has created a need for training practitioners at a number of different levels and for a variety of roles. This paper will describe a training program for Family Centered Practice. Building on an empowerment model, the author presents an approach for working with families and children that views the tragedies of the past as resources, rather than the major cause of present problems. Collaborative Conversations for Change adapts the solution-focused therapy model to nontherapy roles that are required for a program to be …

Annual Report 1998, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Annual Reports: 1943 - Present

The file contains the annual report for the library from 1998.

Family Preservation Journal, 1998, Volume 3, Issue 1. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• The Role of Consistency and Diversity in Building Knowledge in Family Preservation. Debora J. Cavazos Dylla and Marianne Berry
• The Weekly Adjustment Indicators Checklist: An Application in the Child Welfare Field. Michael H. Epstein, Madhavi Jayanthi, Janet McKelvey, Deborah Holderness, Erin Frankenberry, Cassandra Lampkin, Molly McGrath, and Kari White
• Intensive Family Preservation Services: a Short History but a Long Past. Kellie B. Reed and Raymond S. Kirk Collaborative Conversations for Change: A Solution-Focused Approach to Family Centered Practice. Donald F. Fausel

Front Matter

Journal of Family Strengths

Title pages, table of contents, etc.

Family Preservation Journal, 1998, Volume 3, Issue 2. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• Getting to Know You: Psychoeducational Groups to Counter Social Isolation of Neglectful Mothers. Marianne Berry
• Intensive Family Preservation in Children's Mental Health: Predictors of Placement. Cathryn C. Potter
• An Innovative Family Preservation Program in an African American Community: Longitudinal Analysis. Patricia Ciliberti
• Chipping Away at the Monolith: Dispelling the Myth of Father Noninvolvement in Children's Early Literacy Development. Robert W. Ortiz

Current Resources

Journal of Family Strengths

Review of:

• Social Work Practice with Children Nancy Boyd Webb. New York: The Guilford Press. Reviewed by Lois Wright

Ms 053 Guide To Earl J. Brewer, Md Papers (1960-1996), Earl J. Brewer (1928-2015)

Manuscript Finding Aids

Earl J. Brewer, MD papers consist primarily of professional correspondence; organization and protocols for national and international cooperative medical studies; grant applications and correspondence regarding a wide range of local, state and national research and coordinated care/case management projects concerning chronic illnesses in children; various organizations' board meeting and committee meeting minutes and reports; drafts, manuscripts, and reprints of published professional papers and books. See more at MS 053.

Family Reunion Services: An Examination Of A Process Used To Successfully Reunite Families, Lois Pierce, Vince Geremia

Journal of Family Strengths

Family Reunion Services, an intensive-home-based service for families whose children are unlikely to return home without additional services, was evaluated. The 196 children who received FRS services and remained home had fewer previous placements, were more likely to be black and to come from families where the FRS worker intervened in the areas of parenting skills or communication. FRS workers' activities are described.

Parenting Pioneers And Parenting Teams: Strengthening Extended Family Ties In Family Support, Susan Whitelaw Downs

Journal of Family Strengths

Starting with the premise that extended family members often have great influence on family functioning, this article describes social work practice techniques for helping families utilize resources available in the extended family network. Two key concepts are presented: "parenting pioneers," who, while attempting newly learned parenting skills, may struggle with resistance from extended family members; and "parenting teams," in which the focal family is giving to or receiving from extended family members substantial family support. The article presents these practice techniques in the context of family support services, which are characterized as voluntary, preventive, developmental, and based in the concept …

Targeting Families To Receive Intensive Family Preservation Services: Assessing The Use Of Imminent Risk Of Placement As A Service Criterion, Elaine Walton, Ramona W. Denby

Journal of Family Strengths

The process for targeting families to receive intensive family preservation services was examined for 71 child welfare agencies in the United States. The focus of this exploratory/descriptive study was the concept of imminent risk of placement as a criterion for providing services. Findings indicated that agencies had difficulty defining imminent risk and were unable to successfully restrict services to imminent risk cases. Several factors besides imminent risk were identified in relation to the targeting process.