Diverse Families, Competent Families

Innovations in Research and Preventive Intervention Practice

Janet F. Gillespie, Judy Primavera

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317789437
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

Are you prepared to deliver effective services to a wide range of families and family situations?Diverse Families, Competent Families provides human service professionals with a portrait of the real lives and practical challenges of our nation's families as they face a new millennium. It examines family adaptation and competence in a variety of contexts and situations such as, day-to-day issues of coping and survival, as well as major milestones such as sending children off to school and becoming a caregiver for a family member. This unique book also spans multiple levels of families'existence, examining home, school, and the larger community to provide you with an understanding of the societal dynamics that can have an influence on families. With Diverse Families, Competent Families, you'll explore:

• the need to reexamine the ways that single parent families are viewed, and the risks inherent in over-generalizing about this type of family
• ways that men can make the most of their experience as fathers
• the relationship between parents'perceptions of teacher behavior and how willing they are to become involved at school
• the ways in which changes or disruptions in a family's functioning can influence their children's academic skills
• the results of an innovative intervention for "sandwiched" generation mothers who must simultaneously care for an older family member and attend to the needs of their own children
• ways to help Mexican immigrant parents feel more effective in their parenting rolesIn Diverse Families, Competent Families, you will discover new, and positive ways to view families, particularly ethnic minority families, low-income families, immigrant families, and families who are coping with specific life stressors such as financial loss, unemployment, divorce, and death.

Index

Academic achievement. See also Parental involvement, in children's educational process

effect of changes in family needs on, 69–84

academic competence measures of, 75–77

analysis of, 73, 77–81

study methodology for, 72–75

effect of children's after-school self-care on, 56, 57, 60, 62, 63, 64

parental influence on, 87, 122, 104–105

Adaptability, marital, effect on father's childcare involvement, 42, 43, 44, 46–47, 49

Adaptive Behavior Inventory (ABI-Short Form), 60

Adolescent mothers, poverty rate of, 7

Adrienne Kirby Family Literacy Project, 88–99

Head Start staff's involvement in, 88

modeling in, 88

effect on family functioning, 96–97, 98–99

effect on other family members, 95–96

outcomes assessment of, 90–99

“Parents as Partners in Reading” model for, 88, 98

parents' reactions to, 91–95

pre-program parental behaviors and satisfaction, 91

resource-exchange basis of, 88

role-playing in, 88

Adult children, differentiated from “sandwich generation” caregivers, 141

African-American adolescents

economic stress-psychological distress relationship in, 25–36

correlation with economic loss, 30, 31, 34

correlation with economic strain, 30, 31, 32–33, 34

correlation with maternal depression, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

correlation with negative parenting, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

structural equation modeling of, 32–33

poverty rate of, 27

African-American children, poverty rate of, 27

African-American families, kin network of, 7

African-American parents. See also Single mother(s), African-American

empowerment education for, 182–194

Conventional Pa...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• About the Editors
• Table of Contents
• Research on Family Resilience: Room for All and Strength from Each
• Diverse Adaptations of Single Parent, Low-Income Families with Young Children: Implications for Community-Based Prevention and Intervention
• Economic Stress and Psychological Distress Among Urban African American Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Parents
• The Marital Context for Father Involvement with Their Preschool Children: The Role of Partner Support
• Children's After School Arrangements: A Study of Self-Care and Developmental Outcomes
• Family Problems and Children's Competencies Over the Early Elementary School Years
• Enhancing Family Competence Through Literacy Activities
• Parents' Perceptions of Teacher Outreach and Parent Involvement in Children's Education
• Toward a Model of Latino Parent Advocacy for Educational Change
• Promoting Resilience Among Children of Sandwiched Generation Caregiving Women Through Caregiver Mutual Help
• “You Have to Be Real Strong”: Parenting Goals and Strategies of Resilient, Urban, African American, Single Mothers
• Competent Families, Collaborative Professionals: Empowered Parent Education for Low Income, African American Families
• Parental Self-Efficacy and Social Support as Predictors of Parenting Practices and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment in Mexican Immigrant Families
• Index