Families As Nurturing Systems (Hardcover)

Contents Preface

• Families as Nurturing Systems: An Introduction
• Part I: New Directions for Family Resource and Support Programs
• Supporting and Strengthening Family Functioning: Toward a Congruence Between Principles and Practice
• Personal Social Networks as a Focus of Support
• Family Resource and Support Programs: Changes and Challenges in the Human Services
• Services for Children With Special Needs: Partnerships From the Beginning Between Parents and Practitioners
• A Lifespan Perspective on Caregiving
• Families, Policy, and Family Support Policies
• Part II: Family Support Across the Life Span and Within Different Settings
• Early Family Intervention: Focusing on the Mother’s Adaptation-Competence and Quality of Partnership
• The Challenge of Multiple Roles: The Interface Between Work and Family When Children Are Young
• The Schools and Family Oriented Prevention
• Social Network Intervention in Intensive Family-Based Preventive Services
• The Black Church and Family Support Programs
• Preventing Adoption Disruption
• How Fathers Respond When Their Youth Leave and Return Home
• The Oldest Old: Caregiving or Social Support?