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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Family assessment"”.
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Putting The Cart Before The Horse: Understanding The Family Assessment Process In Early Intervention
… state-wide policies and procedures used in the family assessment process within early intervention services. This study looked at the administrative understanding of the family assessment federal regulations, state policies and procedures, and local implementation from the perspective of the …
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Strengths of families of at-risk youth: a Delphi study through family assessment and planning teams
… a collaborative system of services ...that is...family-focused...when addressing the strengths and needs of troubled and at-risk youth and their families in the Commonwealth" (A report to the Governor and General Assembly, 1992, Appendix A, p.1). The directives of the Comprehensive Services Act …
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The Examination of Cutoff and Self-Functioning in Three Generations of Families with a Substance-Abusing Teenager
… assessed by the researcher through the Global Assessment of Functioning. The child was evaluated on the Child and Family Assessment Scale, an eight dimension scale. Data were gathered and analyzed through a correlational matrix. Significant correlations at P>.01 were found for degree of cutoff …
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The difficulties of stepmotherhood : a comparison between stepmothers who have no children of their own and stepmothers who have their own children
… by means of psychometric testing. The McMaster Family Assessment Device is used to assess the family functioning and thereby investigate the difficulties of the stepmothers. The Rutter Child Behaviour Questionnaire is used to determine the range of behaviours with which the stepmother might need …
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Family preservation, a study of change in family functioning
This study on family preservation services examined the relationship between certain family characteristics and their impact on child placement rates. Information on families that received family preservation services was collected using the Family Assessment Form (1993). The variables that were …
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Kinetic family drawings as indices of family functioning
Kinetic Family Drawings (KFDs) are Projective drawings which require the drawer to give 'action' to the depicted figures. A number of studies have been conducted following its inception in 1970. (Burns & Kaufman, 1970; 1972). Upon examination of these studies, however, it is evident that those …
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Fathers and daughters: an assessment of the individuation and strength of their relationship
… Both fathers and daughters provided assessments of the strength/weakness and fusion/individuation of their relationship. The instruments used were the Family Assessment Measure (FAM) and the intergenerational fusion/individuation scale of the Personal Authority in the Family System …
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How Parenting Stress and Discouragement Impact Functioning Within Stepfamilies
… parenting stress and discouragement affect stepfamily functioning. Whether the parent was a biological parent or stepparent, whether the stepparent was a stepmother or stepfather, or whether the marriage had been formed more or less than two years was also considered. One assumption made was …
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Fathers and young-adult children: factors affecting relationship strength
… administered were the Personal Authority in the Family System Questionnaire (PAFS-Q) and the Family Assessment Measure (FAM-III). Correlation, analysis of variance, and step-wise multiple regression were used for statistical analysis. Results indicated that fathers and young-adult children had …
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Perceived relationship quality as a predictor of women's dropout from substance abuse treatment
… Scale, the Dyadic Formation Inventory, and the Family Assessment Device. These scales all measure relationship quality as perceived by the subjects. Perceptions of the women with substance abuse problems who completed treatment did not differ significantly from those who dropped out. The …
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Parent/Professional Perceptions of Collaboration When Viewed in the Context of Virginia's Comprehensive Services Act System of Care
… Services Act, the legislation mandated that family and service system interactions were intended to be child-centered, family-focused, and collaborative in nature. Whether at the assessment, planning, implementation, or evaluation phase of a family's individualized service plan unfolding, …
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Family Function, Aggression, and Psychopathic Personality Traits in College Students
… the interrelationships between psychopathy, family function, and aggression. While separate relationships have been established between these variables, there is a lack of understanding with respect to their interrelationships. Studies have shown that a negative family environment cultivates …
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Family Function, Aggression, and Psychopathic Personality Traits in College Students
… the interrelationships between psychopathy, family function, and aggression. While separate relationships have been established between these variables, there is a lack of understanding with respect to their interrelationships. Studies have shown that a negative family environment cultivates …
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An exploratory study of the families of bulimics from a systems perspective
… aimed to explore these families' functioning. Family functioning was assessed according to the McMaster Model of Family Functioning (Epstein and Bishop, 1981): clinical interviews with 13 bulimics provided qualitative data on their families' functioning: quantitative data were elicited from the …
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Intellectual, educational and demographic characteristics of students with learning disabilities and serious emotional disturbances
… the WISC-III, reading, math and selected family and demographic characteristics of 301 learning disabled students (LD) and 99 emotionally disturbed students (ED). Specifically, this study sought to determine which variables can successfully discriminate between LD and ED students and which …
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Functioning among Taiwanese Families with a Child Having Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
… the level of a child's mobility upon family hardiness, functioning, and support from a family perspective. A total sample of 126 of participants was parents of children with DMD. Parents completed basic demographic information, the Family Assessment Device, Family Hardiness Index, Duke …
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A solution focused family checkup as a positive intervention in family therapy
… seeks to examine the efficacy of a two-session family checkup, using a Solution Focused approach as a positive intervention for interrupting family dysfunction that is both ecologically and psychologically acceptable to families in distress, who otherwise might not seek: family therapy. Families …
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Strengths and weaknesses of the spousal relationship following a stroke
… stroke spouse were selected. These included: the Family Assessment Measure (FAM) - dyadic relationship version and the Barthel Index. All scores on FAM were within the normal range of strength/weakness. Results indicated that a significant proportion of the variance in task accomplishment, role …
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Dinâmica familiar de pessoas com comportamento suicida: aplicação do modelo Calgary de Avaliação
… strategies. Considering the importance of the family as a component of social support, there is an urgent need to understand the dynamics of family relationships in the context of suicidal ideation. Thus, this thesis addresses the following chapters to compose the history of art: I- Suicidal …
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The parenting children course study: a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of a church based parenting intervention in the community
… Child Behaviour Inventor; Eyberg, 1999); General family functioning, using the General Functioning Scale of the FAD (McMaster Family Assessment Device; Epstein, Baldwin & Bishop, 1983). The impact of changing leaders for the Live course and duration of the DVD course from five to ten weeks was …
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