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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Minority Families"”.
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Family Resilience Model of Behavioral Health for Low-Income Ethnic Minority Families
… research particularly among low-income minority families. Correlates of poverty among minority families that have been noted in the literature are that of substance abuse and lower levels of mental health. The primary aim of this study was to operationalize the concept of family …
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Family Support: A Buffer for Parenting Stress among Ethnic Minority Parents of Children with DD
… particularly parenting stress. Therefore, ethnic minority families of children with development delays may be at risk for especially high levels of parenting stress due to the additive stress of adapting to a new culture. Currently, there is uncertainty within the field about the relationship …
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Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian families experiences with special education in the United States
… proven to be a deterrent and hindrance to many minority parents and families. This dissertation seeks to add to the current literature on minority families in special education with a specific focus on the underrepresented group of Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian Americans. …
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Perspectives about Family Meals from Parents in Low-income and Minority Households
… have examined the family meals in low-income and minority families and no studies have qualitatively examined whether there is a difference in the protective influence of family meals between households with overweight/obese children and households with nonoverweight children. The current study …
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Diverse Families Navigating Mental Health at the Pediatrician’s Office: A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Interplay of Stress, Culture, and Child Mental Health in the Primary Care Setting
<p>Low-income and ethnic minority youth experience high psychiatric need but persistently low participation in traditional mental health care. General pediatricians are often the first and only healthcare providers with whom many families engage around their child’s emotional and behavioral …
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Addressing childhood obesity in ethnic minority populations
… a serious public health concern. In some ethnic minority groups obesity prevalence is significantly higher than the national average (The NHS Information Centre, 2010). Therefore, it is recommended that interventions to manage childhood obesity are tailored to the needs of ethnic minority groups …
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Critical Reflections: Interviews with Parents Regarding Truancy
… This research study queried the perspectives of minority parents of habitually truant elementary school students on truancy. The key question was if school attendance review board letters sent to truant families monthly effectively resolved truancy at the school in this study. This study captured …
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An Examination of Urban, Minority Parents’ Perceptions of Barriers Faced in Being Involved in School-Based Events in Early Childhood Education
… examined the barriers that parents in urban, minority communities faced when participating in campus-provided activities designed to enhance early childhood education. While parental involvement is widely recognized as a critical predictor of academic success, a significant disparity persisted …
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The Evaluation of the Effects of School Newsletters on Parent Perceptions in an Urban School System
… by exploring the barriers that exist for minority families in high need public schools and examining the effect of school newsletters (grounded in Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler's (1995, 1997, 2005) theoretical model of the parental involvement process) on parents' perceptions regarding school …
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A study of parent's perceptions regarding services provided in Head Start\Transition programs in Fairfax County, Virginia
… growth. However, the changing nature of families, particularly low income, minority families has had a significant effect on the nature and extent of such involvement. The national Head Start\Public School Transition project is designed to maintain, among other purposes, the high level of …
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Language socialization in Canadian Hispanic communities : ideologies and practices
… of supporting home languages for linguistic-minority families in multilingual settings, as the family language is the means through which they can more successfully socialize their children into the beliefs, values, ideologies and practices surrounding their languages and cultures. Although …
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Minority Parents' Narratives of Living with Their Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
… understanding of the specific experiences of minority parents of children with ASD. Family systems theory, family systems-illness model, and social constructivism frameworks inform this study and enhance understanding of the implications of ASD within the familial context. A qualitative …
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Success Oriented Strategies Employed by Middle-Class African American Families: A Focus on Positive Racial Identity Development and Socialization
… strategies employed by African American families that facilitate the development and socialization of children in ways that promote achievement and success outcomes, with a primary focus on those strategies that foster positive racial identity development and socialization. Employing a …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Chinese Language Family Literacy Program: Impact on Young Children's Literacy Development in Chinese and English
… of family literacy programs which target minority families as one group a challenging endeavor, both in program design and implementation. This study investigated the potential learning outcomes when a family literacy program with language supports were provided to Chinese immigrant …
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An Investigation of the Community-Based English Tutoring Program (CBET)
… develop educational programs that help language-minority families understand and participate in the school system in ways that will support the academic success of their children. As a result of the Proposition 227 Initiative in California, statewide family literacy programs were established as …
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Families and the State: Relations of dependency, responsibility and educational inequality in Singapore
… explores how socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore navigate the opportunities and constraints of Singapore’s education system. Singapore’s education system is widely emulated for its performance on international education benchmarking tests. However, there is growing …
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Essays on Inequality in Cities
… limited access to residential neighborhoods for minority families and how they shape the distributional effects of interstate highway policy. I develop a quantitative model with rich spatial heterogeneity to capture how in equilibrium, institutions interact with social preferences and the housing …
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Grandmothers' and mothers' emotion socialization through intergenerational reminiscing in underrepresented families in the U.S.
… involvement in caregiving tasks for minority and underrepresented families. I also incorporate indirectness, a concept that is well-established in linguistic research. Rather than focusing on what family members say during emotion-related reminiscing, indirectness assesses how family …
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Extended Learning Time
… <p>Many children, especially those from poor and minority families, are placed at risk by school practices that are based on a sorting paradigm, in which some students receive high-expectation instruction while the rest are relegated to lower quality education. The role of home-based or …
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Intergenerational family dynamics and leisure among second-generation Mexican-American youth
… were conducted with four Mexican-American families (mother, father, and child) and two single-mother families (mother and child) in California. The findings revealed that the most important factors that influenced children’s leisure participation in their communities were safety and space …