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Children's Literature on Floods and Natural Disasters 
Description: This site provides information on books that allow children to understand what causes floods and talk about natural disasters in order to help children who have experienced a flood to communicate their feelings and fears.
Description: This site maintains an expert contact list on their website for mental health-related questions i.e. stress management, living with extended family, recognizing signs etc.
Description: Designed to inform military families about a unique home away from home program. Because members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, Fisher House Foundation donates "comfort homes," built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. These homes enable family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful times - during the hospitalization for an unexpected illness, disease, or injury.
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Description: The 4-H National Headquarters and Land Grant Institutions across the nation partner with the Army, Air Force and Navy to provide predictable, quality 4-H programs and educational experiences to Military Children and Youth wherever they live. In addition, land grant university faculty and staff provide technical assistance and training to the military services in the areas of youth development and technology. Through the 4-H Military Partnerships, Military Children and Youth participate in 4-H Clubs on installations around the world and in their local communities. Military Children and Youth attend a variety of camp programs focusing on developing life skills and increase their awareness of the world around them.
A Guide for Educators: Bullying—What Educators Can Do About It
Description: This 12-page publication offers advice to educators on what they can do about bullying. It includes sections on different forms of bullying, strategies for teachers and schools, references, classroom activities, and children's books related to bullying.
A World of Possibilities - The Way to Personal Strength
Author: Quick, Sam (32 more by this author)
Description: “We ask for strength and life gives us difficulties, which make us strong.” This Native American saying wisely shows that personal progress consists in overcoming obstacles, which often are put in our way for good reason.
Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder: Strategies for Success
Author: Holladay, Susan
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to recognize ADHD and how to deal with it when you or you think someone you know has it.
Age Groups Respond Differently to Calamity
Author: Sasser, Diane (5 more by this author)
Description: Children's reactions to disaster depend on their age and maturity. Their responses also are affected by how close they are to the event, their level of exposure to it through TV and how they see their parents react.
America at War: Helping Children Cope
Author: Gnatuk, Carole (20 more by this author); Sam Quick; Brian Fitzpatrick; Alex Lesueur
Description: This special media article provides suggestions for parents on talking with their children and helping them cope with the fears and uncertainties of war.
Description: Through research-based interventions, GLSEN provides resources and support for schools to implement effective and age-appropriate anti-bullying programs to improve school climate for all students. This website provides programs and resources to help all members of the school community address bullying in inclusive and effective ways.
Bullying Prevention Skills and Techniques for Children
Description: This article describes the characteristics of bullying, how parents can recognize if their child is being victimized and what parents can do to help. The author, Mark Lakewood, is a bullying prevention expert, author, and speaker with over 20 years of clinical experience as a family therapist.
Bullying: What Parents and Teachers Should Know
Description: A study conducted by the Kaiser Foundation found that 86% of children ages 12-15 said they get teased or bullied at school — making bullying more prevalent than smoking, alcohol, drugs, or sex among the same age group.
Bullying: A Big Problem with Big Consequences
Description: This guide (available on CD) was developed by University of Minnesota Extension to help parents understand how to identify a wide range of bullying behavior and understand reasons these behaviors occur; develop strategies to help teens handle bullying behavior-whether a bully, bullied, or a bystander; and learn appropriate steps to take if a teen is a bully, bullied or bystander.
Children and Parents Adjust to Separation
Author: Slack, Rozario (1 more by this author)
Description: This article presents a series of suggestions aimed at helping parents and their children adjust to separation after or during divorce.
Children and the Aftermath of Katrina: From fear to hope
Description: This site provides information about the effects of natural disasters, such as Katrina, on children and how to help them cope.
Children and the Flood: From Fear to Hope
Author: Olson, Kathleen (7 more by this author)
Description: Children, particularly young children, will gain their sense of safety and security first from their parents and secondly from other adults. This online newsbrief discusses how to support children who have suffered from a natural disaster, like a flood.
Conversaciones con los ninos sobre el terrorismo
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith (6 more by this author)
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet provides tips on how to talk with young children about acts of terroism and help them deal with associated fears and anxieties.
Coping with Death, Grief, and Loss
Description: This fact sheet from the University of Iowa University Counseling Service describes what grief is and common reactions to grief. Include recommended readings.
Description: This fact sheet offers tips for coping with stress related to the holidays and offers suggestions on ways to manage holiday stress and make healthy choices.
Coping With Stress During a Job Loss
Description: This article provides information for individuals and families on how to cope with the stress associated with job loss. Information is provided on how people respond to the loss of a job, as well as strategies for positive coping.
Coping with Violence and National Tragedy
Author: CYFERNet Team, (12 more by this author)
Description: The primary role of parents is to protect children. Young children do not need to be told about traumatic events that they have no way of understanding. Here are some recommendations and resources to help children deal with violence and tragic events.
Creating a Strong Family Effective Management of Stress and Crisis
Description: This is one in a series of WebGuides by UNL Extension Family Life specialists and educators who explore the attributes and experiences of strong families.
Description: This publication focuses on what educators can do to create safe learning spaces for all youth. It provides an overview of the developmental model for sexual identity, links to resources and definitions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
Crisis Nursery Services: Responding to Ongoing Family Crises
Author: Landdeck-Sisco, Jeanne (1 more by this author)
Description: Discussion of the need for planned crisis nursery services to assist families with chronic or ongoing crises. Points out programmatic and staffing considerations for such service as well as the need to build a relationship with child protective services.
Description: A public advertising campaign aimed at preventing cyberbullying. Online bullying, called cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens.
Description: Provides quick facts on what cyberbullying is and a series of link to resources on how to recognize and prevent cyberbullying.
Description: The Cyberbullying Research Center provides information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.
Dealing With the Stress of Parenthood
Description: Being a parent is probably the most stressful job there is, and the first few years are often the most difficult. It is possible, however, to learn how to maintain your self-control and survive the tough times.
Author: Recker, Nancy (5 more by this author)
Description: Most families find there is never enough money and, sooner or later, they squabble over it. Meshing different styles of handling money doesn't just happen because people love each other. It takes effective communication, time, and effort.
Educator’s Guide to Cyberbullying, Cyberthreats & Sexting
Description: There are increasing reports of children and teens using these technologies to post damaging text or images to bully their peers or engage in other aggressive behavior. There are also reports of teens posting material that raises concerns that they are considering an act of violence against others or themselves. More recently concerns of sending provocative nude or semi-nude images, a practice called “sexting” have emerged. This guide provides educators with insight into these concerns and guidelines to prevent and respond.
Emotional Recovery Part of Disaster Aftermath
Author: Sasser, Diane (5 more by this author)
Description: Those who survive natural disasters or man made disasters are at risk for behavioral and emotional readjustment problems. Most child and adult survivors experience one or more normal stress reactions for several days after a natural disaster. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Factsheet: Bullying and Gay Youth
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the challenges of being a teenager, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GBLT) teens in terms of having to deal with harassment, threats, and violence.
Families and the Grief Process
Author: Braza, Kathleen (1 more by this author)
Description: Examination of grief and the emotions associated with it. Offers healing strategies for families and staff working with them.
Families for Depression Awareness
Description: The mission and purpose of Families for Depression Awareness is to: help families recognize and cope with depressive disorders; help families recognize and manage the various forms of depression and associated mood disorders; reduce stigma associated with depressive disorder; and unite families and help them heal in coping with depression.
Family Communication During Times of Stress
Description: A practical application of the principles contained within this publication can contribute positively toward better communication, resulting in more effective management of stress and more satisfying family relationships.
Author: Deane, Paul
Description: Definition of family support, description of typical components of family support programs, in general, and specific to crisis nursery and respite programs.
Description: Whether it's Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or solstice you celebrate, December often checks in with a hefty load of emotional and financial baggage. Expectations run high while energy - and bank accounts – seem to flow in the other direction. Here are some simple things for dealing with the challenges of the holidays.
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Description: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. Established in 1990, GLSEN envisions a world in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Getting Through Tough Times: Communicating Under Pressure
Author: Danes, Sharon (20 more by this author)
Description: One of a 17 fact sheet series on getting help, making financial decisions with less, dealing with stress, figuring out how to do more with less, and talking to children about tough times. "Communicating Under Pressure" provides insights into how we talk and how we listen when the pressure is on. During stressful times it is easy to experience misunderstandings that sometimes result in adding more stress to the situation. At times like this, it is helpful to reexamine how we communicate. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Getting Through Tough Times: Controlling Stress
Author: Danes, Sharon (20 more by this author)
Description: One of a 17 fact sheet series on getting help, making financial decisions with less, dealing with stress, figuring out how to do more with less, and talking to children about tough times. "Controlling Stress" addresses the stress that often accompanies unexpected income changes. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Getting Through Tough Times: Helping Children Cope
Author: Danes, Sharon (20 more by this author)
Description: One of a 17 fact sheet series on getting help, making financial decisions with less, dealing with stress, figuring out how to do more with less, and talking to children about tough times. "Helping Children Cope" discusses how losing a job or income affects all members of the family. Adults can become so preoccupied they can sometimes forget that tough times have an emotional, as well as a financial impact on their children and their sense of well-being and with their security. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Description: A brief overview of the different stages of grief and our ability to make decisions depending on which stage we are in. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Guía para la Supervivencia Familiar: Si su Niño Desaparece
Description: This resource is a Spanish version of the article “Missing Children: Family Survival Guide” from the Department of Justice.
Helping Adolescents Cope with Grief
Author: Shriner, Joyce (3 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on helping children through grief with effective communication.
Helping Friends Cope with Financial Crisis
Description: Understanding how to reach out to a friend experiencing a financial crisis can help you assist them during their time of need. Knowing what resources are available can prepare you to help your friend. And being aware of signs of depression can alert you to a friend's need for professional help.
Helping Kids Deal with Bullies
Description: This website describes how to recognize bullying and how parents can help their child cope and get help. Available in English and Spanish.
Helping Your Children Cope with Anger (Ayude a sus niños pequeños a controlar el enojo)
Description: This fact sheet explains how adults can teach children the difference between feeling anger and acting on anger. Provides tips for helping children to handle their anger.
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Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses the difficulties of hiring a lawyer.
Description: Provides tips on reducing stress from the holidays, whether it is physical, emotional or financial.
Author: Hellevang, Kenneth
Description: A web site that is continuing to grow with extensive information related to moisture problems in homes and associated topics such as mold. Includes links to information on coping with natural disasters and publications regarding a family's emotional well-being and stress levels.
How Parents and Agents Can Address Bullying with Youth
Description: This article by Rosemary V. Barnett, University of Florida, presents a series of steps that extension agents, parents, and educators can take together to encourage involvement in creating a safe and fear-free learning environment.
Ideas Offered to Strengthen Family and Community Life, Resiliency
Author: Sasser, Diane (5 more by this author)
Description: Trying times can test family and community resiliency. Having our families and communities around us for support can go a long way in helping recover from crises, emotionally as well as physically.
Is Your Child Sexting? What Parents Need to Know
Description: Short article on what parents need to know about the risks, emotional as well as legal, of sexting.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Helping Children Understand Death
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at helping people understand how children view death and how they can help a child cope with the death of a loved one.
Description: This Zero To Three fact sheet discusses how stress affects parents and their children. It offers suggestions for parents on how to cope and help their children cope after traumatic events, such as natural disasters.
Description: This brief fact sheet from ZERO TO THREE provides coping strategies and suggestions parents can use to help their young children cope with traumatic events.
Managing Workplace Grief--Vision and Necessity
Description: This is a managerial/human resource discussion of the issue of coping with workplace grief as a health issue.
NASW Responds to Hurricane Katrina
Description: This site provides information from the National Association of Social Workers on the Katrina hurricane.
Description: This website is provided as an educational resource concerning PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and other enduring consequences of traumatic stress, for a variety of audiences.
Navigating Children's Grief: How to Help Following a Death
Author: Lyles, Mary
Description: This table from the Children's Grief Education Association outlines the emotions, behaviors, and suggestions on how to help children cope with death. It is organized by age-level of the child.
PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention
Description: The mission of PACER Center (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) is to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families, based on the concept of parents helping parents. PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention unites, engages, and educates communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant, and interactive resources.
Parental Guilt and Kids with Special Needs
Author: Slack, Rozario (1 more by this author)
Description: This article presents a series of suggestions aimed at helping parents deal with the psychological and emotional adjustments they must adapt to in providing for children with special needs.
Preparing for Deployment in the 21st Century
Author: Varcoe, Karen (1 more by this author); Holly Gifford; Nancy B. Lees
Description: This presentation covers issues that families face both at home and away in communicating and working together when one member is deployed on military service.
Preventing Cyberbullying: Top Ten Tips for Educators
Description: This fact sheet from the Cyberbullying Research Institute provides 10 tips for preventing cyberbullying in schools and communities.
Raising Resilient Children During Tough Economic Times
Description: Raising Resilient Children During Tough Economic Times highlights how the economic distress of parents can affect their children. It also outlines five strategies to help build resilience in youth, and includes a list of references and resources for parents and teachers. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Respite for Children with Disabilities, & Chronic or Terminal Illness
Author: Cernoch, Jennifer (1 more by this author)
Description: Definition of respite, information about seven program models, and listing of resources and references for further information.
Restoring Emotional Balance After a Disaster
Description: This article provides information on dealing with stress after a natural disaster.
Description: Sages of the Ages: Stories that Touch and Teach is a collaborative project of the University of Maryland Extension, the School of Public Health, the Department of Family Science, and the Maryland Family Community Education organization. This curriculum benefits youth, adults in their middle years, and older adults by fostering a variety of experiences, including storytelling, project leadership, and community engagement. The goals of Sages of the Ages are: -To build resilience capacity through intergenerational storytelling -To foster the development of important life skills -To encourage community involvement and help teens make a difference in the lives of other people -To promote interaction between teens and older adults.
Secrets of Parenting 1, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on ways to cope and guide children. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Sesame Street and The Electric Company's Military Families Near and Far
Description: Military Families Near and Far is a website developed by Sesame Street and The Electric Company in cooperation with the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. The website is designed to help children and parents stay connected and communicate during times of deployment, change and uncertainty. Resources include a bilingual website designed for military families; Feel Electric! - a mobile app that encourages children to explore and express their emotions; and The Electric Company Extended Learning Program with afterschool tools for educators, filled with literacy and math-based lesson plans, games, activities, and tips.
Single Male Caregiver Challenges Following the Mother's Death
Description: This article discusses the challenges faced by a single male caregiver following the mother’s death.
Single Parenting: Not Enough Hours in the Day
Author: Temke, Mary (26 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet the time management of single parents. This PDF also gives parents ideas on how to spend more time on the things they want to.
Social-Emotional Well-Being: Calming the Storm
Description: During tough times, stress overload and feelings of distress may exert a strong impact on daily functioning. This Web site, part of University of Kentucky's Health Education through Extension Leadership (HEEL) Initiative, contains timely resources that investigate the connections between social-emotional well-being, physical health, and stress management. Social-emotional functioning as a factor in farm stress is examined. Techniques and strategies that prevent personal and community distress are promoted. The dynamics of family violence and their impact on the health of individuals, families, and communities are explored. There are four PowerPoint presentations in addition to fact sheets, a glossary of terms, and a self-care checklist, all of which are camera-ready in pdf.
Soothing Those Jangled Nerves: Stress Management
Author: Norphlet Thompson, Rita; Sue McKinney-Cull
Description: Discussion of the impact of stress on individuals, the symptoms of stress, myths about stress, and strategies for living with stress.
Author: Braun, Bonnie
Description: Braun combines the quantitative and qualitative findings from a 17-state, longitudinal research study of rural, low-income mothers and their families in a compelling presentation to increase our understanding of the hopes, dreams and experiences of these families. As in the oral storytelling tradition, mothers will tell of challenges they face in raising children, making ends meet, food security, health, employment and civic engagement within the communities where they live. Keynote presentation at the 2009 CYFAR Conference. Link includes transcript of her presentation and slides..
Stress is Gonna Get You if You Don't Watch Out!
Author: Nelson, Patricia
Description: This newsletter highlights key research-based stress management strategies. This web site provides additional stress management resources: http://ag.udel.edu/extension/fam/yourlife/managingstress.htm
Stress Management: Strategies for Individuals
Author: Smith, Suzanna (5 more by this author); Joe Pergola
Description: This fact sheet on stress management and includes signs of stress and offers tips on how to deal with it.
Stress Management: Strategies for Individuals
Author: Smith, Suzanna (5 more by this author); Joe Pergola
Description: This fact sheet discusses the types of stress, signs and what can be done to manage stress
Description: Families are suffering, jobs are scarce, budgets across the nation are beyond stretched, and the stress this puts on vulnerable communities, youth, and families continues to take its toll. Here at CYFERnet, we want to let everyone know that we are keeping up with the news and we have resources available. Here are a few of the resources on CYFERnet that relate to the current financial situation. There are many more available on the CYFERnet database that may be of use to those working with families who are coping with these difficult financial times.
Supporting Family Resilience: What Does the Evidence Say?
Description: Invited Research Presentation at the 2011 USDA DoD Family Resiliency Conference by Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth. Programs to build family strengths, and minimize and prevent family problems have been designed and implemented for years in both civilian and military communities. This presentation focuses on scientific evidence supporting strategies shown to be effective or promising, and the lessons they suggest for future work with military families. Dr. MacDermid Wadsworth directs the Military Family Research Institute and the Center for Families, and serves as Associate Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Purdue University. Her research focus is relationships between job conditions and family life, especially on military families and organizational policies, programs and practices.
Author: Shriner, Joyce (3 more by this author)
Description: Provides suggestions on a number of things someone can do to provide support and comfort to others going through the pain of a loved one's death.
Description: To help families deal with the economic downturn, North Carolina Cooperative Extension has developed 23 fact sheets on how to cope with personal and financial crises. These fact sheets on saving money, talking to children about the economy, shopping for healthy foods on a tight budget, avoiding home foreclosure and other timely topics were developed by N.C. Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences specialists in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State University.
Taking Charge in Challenging Times - Accepting Your Feelings
Description: People respond to a personal crisis with many feelings: anger, anxiety, outrage, self doubt. They may be hostile - lashing out at those closest to them. Or, they may become moody and depressed. Their tension may show up as restlessness, loss of appetite, loss of interest in sex, insomnia, and feelings of apathy and exhaustion. While some of these symptoms may be unpleasant, they are normal, predictable reactions of people experiencing a loss or critical change in their lives. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Taking Charge in Challenging Times - Coping with Stress
Description: Unexpected income changes are among the most stressful events a person can experience. Unemployment, a disaster, divorce, or the death of someone you love can be personally devastating and can trigger the same reactions. Every member of the family feels stress during tough times. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Taking Charge in Challenging Times - Dealing with Stress
Description: Unexpected income changes are among the most stressful events a person can experience. Unemployment, a disaster, divorce, or the death of someone you love can be personally devastating and can trigger the same reactions. Every member of the family feels stress during tough times. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Taking Charge in Challenging Times - Teaching Children Coping Skills
Description: Children are capable of learning and utilizing coping skills that will help them through difficult situations. Adults frequently become so preoccupied they forget that tough times have an emotional as well as a financial impact on their children. Children depend on their parents for emotional security. When parents are tense, upset, and inattentive, it disrupts the flow of normal activities. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Taking Charge in Challenging Times - Things You Can do When Money is Short
Description: Children are capable of learning and utilizing coping skills that will help them through difficult situations. Remember, no matter what your age, there are things you can do to help at home during tough times. Strategies that children can use to help are listed. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
Talking to Children about Tough Times
Author: Brotherson, Sean
Description: Many families are faced with financial concerns that are causing changes in how the family lives. Some families are facing unemployment or job layoffs, some are caught in the middle of the business downsizing trend, others were dealt a disaster due to weather-related problems that reduced their income, and still others are faced with the possibility of losing their business, farm and/or home. Making changes isn't easy for adults or for children. People become used to a certain lifestyle or quality of life and rarely think about the potential for it to end. It's human nature to resist and fear changes that approach when income is reduced or lifestyle or location must change. Adults often try to keep these difficulties from children, hoping that they either won't really notice or that they will not be bothered or affected by it. The adults become so absorbed in the difficulties that they forget the rest of the family might be in pain also. As an adult, it just seems to be the natural thing to do.
Talking to Children When the Unexpected Happens
Author: Mader, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions on how to talk with their children during stressful times and help them deal with frightening situations or news events.
Talking with Children When the Talking Gets Tough
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for talking with children during challenging periods of conflict, stress, or about difficult topics.
Tickle Your Stress Before It Tackles You
Author: Recker, Nancy (5 more by this author)
Description: "There is a major difference between stressors - those things that happen every day that have the potential for driving us crazy, or making us angry, frustrated, and hurt - and stress, the way we choose to respond to these stressors. You make a choice about how situations will affect the rest of your day. Why not make humorous choices and practice them every day?"
Tips for Talking to Children After a Disaster: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Description: Natural disasters can leave children feeling frightened, confused, and insecure. Whether a child has personally experienced trauma or has merely seen the event on television or heard it discussed by adults, it is important for parents and teachers to be informed and ready to help if reactions to stress begin to occur. This fact sheet from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration offers suggestions for parents and teachers to help children affected by trauma/disasters.
Description: A simple explanation of stress and its effect for adults including 25 tips to deal with stressors.
Description: Sexting usually refers to teens sharing nude photos via electronic media, such as cellphones and the Internet. This fact sheet outlines some of the legal and psychological consequences.
United We Serve: September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance
Description: Beginning in 2002, family members who lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and support groups began to seek a forward-looking tribute to honor the sacrifice of those who were lost and pay tribute to those who rose in service in response to the tragedy. This site provides suggestions on ways of paying tribute and providing community service.
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author)
Description: This resource provides a summary of an interactive telephone training designed to help participants learn more about the resources we have posted about helping your communities cope with the war in Iraq. Topics include: Talking with Children about War and Terrorism, Classroom Resources, Stress and Coping, Protecting children from Traumatic Media Exposure,Patriotism, Related Organizations and Links and Resources for Military Families.
What Parents Can Do About Childhood Bullying
Description: This resource is aimed at helping parents recognize the signs that a child is a bully, as well as the signs of one who is being victimized. Includes information focused on children who have a learning disability (LD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), conditions that can make children more vulnerable to bullying.
Author: Adler-Baeder, Francesca (1 more by this author)
Description: Francesca Adler-Baeder, speaking from an extensive research background on families under stress and children's experiences in diverse family types as well as practical experience working with a broad spectrum of families, engages us in ways to better understand and empower families under stress to nurture their children. She provides practical applications, discussing the systems approach used in a statewide initiative in which practitioners and researchers have built real partnerships for effecting positive change. Keynote presentation at the 2009 CYFAR conference.
Young Children's Understanding of Death
Author: Shriner, Joyce (3 more by this author)
Description: Provides suggestions on ways to explain death to a young child and discusses fears and issues that young children typically have.
Your Guide to Preparing for Emergencies
Description: This website is aimed at helping families prepare for an emergency. This handbook organizes many of the factsheets found on this website in a handbook for easy use.
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National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities
Description: The National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities was developed by the Drexel University School of Public Health’s Center for Health Equality with support from the HHS Office of Minority Health. It provides information, resources and training related to emergency preparedness.
Description: Sesame Workshop presents personal stories about coping with the death of a parent. Katie Couric joins Elmo and his furry friends to model communication between adults and children. They’ll also offer thoughtful suggestions and strategies that help the whole family.
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Food Insecurity and Children Living in Immigrant Families: Implications for Growth and Development
Author: Greder, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: Many families today are experiencing a daily struggle to provide food for their children. This is particularly true for families living in poverty and families who have immigrated to the United States. Food security is especially important for children because their nutrition impacts not only their current health, but also their future health and well-being. This online Workshop explores the impact of food insecurity on children living in immigrant families. Kimberly Greder, Extension Family Life Specialist and Associate Professor at Iowa State University, talks about her experience working with families living in poverty, and her research on the health and well-being of Latino immigrant families, particularly in rural communities.
Living a More Balanced Life: CYFERnet Webinar (May 2011)
Author: Sant, Laura; Marnie Spencer, M.S., R.D., University of Idaho Extension, Bingham County
Description: This is an archived version of the webinar conducted May 10, 2011. The training is intended for parent and family life educators who want to learn about a new program that teaches individuals how to balance time, manage stress, eat mindfully, be physically active, and sleep well in order to live a more balanced life. "Balanced Living" was written by Laura Sant and Marnie Spencer, two University of Idaho educators with many years of experience teaching adult audiences. During this 90-minute webinar, the authors provide an overview of the "Balanced Living" curriculum and how it can be conducted.
Managing Stress: Turning Challenges into Blessings
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author); James Marshall
Description: This is the archived recording of the "Managing Stress" webinar conducted May 18, 2010. The webinar introduced participants to a new program developed by Wally Goddard and James Marshall, University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension that focused on helping participants better manage their own stress and help those they serve do the same, providing practical skills and useful materials.
Description: Five age-based (Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, elementary, and teenagers) parenting toolkits for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqui Freedom veterans and their partners. Provider Guide also provided. Especially for reconnecting w/ their youth after deployment. Paper copies will be sent to all VA medical centers this year.
Working With (Military) Couples
Description: The Working with Couples modules were developed by Drs. Michelle Sherman and Michael Kauth based on live training content created by Drs. Michelle Sherman, Ursula Bowling, and Dutch Doerman. The six modules provide an overview of essential content and skills for treating the Veteran and his or her partner or spouse who struggle with communication problems, anger and conflict, mental illness, trauma, and reintegration into the family after deployment. This training targets VA clinicians but may be helpful to non-VA providers who work with Veterans. Additional training and supervision are required to become competent to provide couples therapy. Funding for the Working with Couples program was provided by the VA South Central MIRECC.
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Description: The 4-H National Headquarters and Land Grant Institutions across the nation partner with the Army, Air Force and Navy to provide predictable, quality 4-H programs and educational experiences to Military Children and Youth wherever they live. In addition, land grant university faculty and staff provide technical assistance and training to the military services in the areas of youth development and technology. Through the 4-H Military Partnerships, Military Children and Youth participate in 4-H Clubs on installations around the world and in their local communities. Military Children and Youth attend a variety of camp programs focusing on developing life skills and increase their awareness of the world around them.
50 Stress Busting Ideas for Your Well-being
Author: Duncan, Stephen
Description: This is a fact sheet on ideas to care for self and managing stress.
America at War: Helping Children Cope
Author: Gnatuk, Carole (20 more by this author); Sam Quick; Brian Fitzpatrick; Alex Lesueur
Description: This special media article provides suggestions for parents on talking with their children and helping them cope with the fears and uncertainties of war.
Building Strong Families: Challenges and Choices
Description: From the University of Missouri Extension this resource provides the curriculum you need to offer workshops on thirteen different topics: Family Strengths, Communicating, Managing Stress, Child Self-Care, Food and Fitness, Working, Go For It!, Positive Discipline, Money Matters, Balancing Responsibilities, Consumer Beware, Healthy House, and Kids and Self-Esteem. The program helps families build strengths, face challenges, and make choices.
Author: Erath, Stephen
Description: This is an archived webinar conducted in collaboration with CYFERnet, USDA/NIFA, eXtension, and the Dept. of Defense focusing on bullying prevention, evidence-based intervention programs, and what parents can do.
BullyingInfo.org: Bullying Prevention and Response
Description: Youth, parents, schools, communities, and others have a role to play in building positive, supportive environments for children and youth, promoting acceptance and respect among all individuals, and ultimately, fostering youth development and learning. This federal government website provides a "one-stop shop" access point to federal resources, programs and research on preventing bullying.
Author: Sandra Brown, Margo Mosley; Margo Mosley
Description: All families experience change. Some changes are expected and welcome; other changes may be sudden and painful. This program helps families who may be experiencing significant change to adjust and successfully manage their roles as parents.
Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety and Depression: What's Influencing our Youth Today?
Description: This PowerPoint presentation discusses childhood and adolescent anxiety and depression.
Children and Stress: Are You Pushing Your Child Too Hard?
Author: Longo, Mary (4 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet on how parents can motivate their children.
Children May Experience Long Term Effects of Disaster (Flood Fact Sheet)
Author: Powell, Joyce (5 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on understanding that children need time to heal from traumatic events. Studies of children following natural disasters have shown that children may experience emotional and behavioral effects for months, one year or even two years following the disaster.
Description: Comfort Zone Camp is the nation's largest bereavement camp. Comfort Zone Camps are offered free of charge to children ages 7-17 who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or primary caregiver. The camps are held year-round in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia. Comfort Zone Camps create an environment where grieving children can have fun and break the isolation death often brings, while learning valuable coping skills for their daily lives.
Conversaciones con los ninos sobre el terrorismo
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith (6 more by this author)
Description: This Spanish language fact sheet provides tips on how to talk with young children about acts of terroism and help them deal with associated fears and anxieties.
Author: Myers-Walls, Judith (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet by Judith Myers-Walls, Purdue University Extension Specialist in child development and family studies, presents an overview to children's reactions to wars and disasters and offers advice for helping children cope with the terrorist attacks, and their aftermath.
Description: This fact sheet from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offers tips for coping with stress after a disaster.
Effects of Deployment Extend Beyond Military
Author: Peterson, Nancy (1 more by this author)
Description: Discusses the stress placed on parent, child, family and other relationships, even community services by military deployment. Provides suggestions from Chuck Smith for tackling these emotional issues.
Families Left Behind: The Hidden Costs of Incarceration and Reentry
Description: This site provides information on children who have incarcerated parents and how these children and the family as a whole are affected.
Family and Corrections Network
Description: The Family and Corrections Network has provided ways for those concerned with families of prisoners to share information and experiences in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
Family Communication During Times of Stress
Author: Matthews, D. (5 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet explains the sources of stress, its possible impacts, and ways to cope with it by communicating with family members.
FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress)
Description: FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) provides resiliency training to military children and families. It teaches practical skills to meet the challenges of deployment and reintegration, to communicate and solve problems effectively, and to successfully set goals together and create a shared family story. FOCUS provides services for military children and families based at U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force installations in California, Hawaii, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, Japan, and at several USMC Wounded Warrior sites.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Caring for Yourself
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for grandparents raising their grandchildren, with tips for time management, starting a grandparents support group, and using relaxation techniques.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Helping Grandchild Stay in Contact with Parents
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for grandparents raising their grandchildren, with tips for maintaining contact with the child's parents, what to expect, and how to cope with stresses of both the grandparents and grandchildren.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Helping Your Grandchild Deal with the Death of a Parent
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for grandparents raising their grandchildren, with tips for understanding the grieving process, and how children understand death.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: What You Need to Know about Abuse and Neglect
Author: Bales, Diane (20 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for grandparents raising their grandchildren who are faced with dealing with the aftermath of child abuse and/or neglect.
Author: Temke, Mary (26 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on how single parents can manage their stress.
Helping Children Cope with Death
Author: Temke, Mary (26 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet suggests age-appropriate way to help children understand and cope with the death of a loved one.
Helping Children Grow: Finding Community Support
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents with children on locating support services within the community.
Helping Children Grow: Handling Children
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on helping children deal with fears.
Helping Children Grow: Learning to Cope with Death
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on helping children cope with death.
Author: Bush, Judith
Description: This fact sheet includes ways parents can help children cope with stress and factors that help to support children during stressful times.
Helping Children Understand Death
Author: Schultheis, Mary (2 more by this author); Judith Myers-Walls
Description: This fact sheet explains how children understand death as they grow older and provides parents with suggestions for helping their children talk about death.
Author: Johnson, Mona (1 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the five stages of grief and loss that children experience and how educators can help children and youth deal with the death of a parent or loved one.
Learning to Live Through Loss: Helping Children Understand Death
Author: Wilken, Carolyn (9 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is aimed at helping people understand how children view death and how they can help a child cope with the death of a loved one.
Living a More Balanced Life: CYFERnet Webinar (May 2011)
Author: Sant, Laura; Marnie Spencer, M.S., R.D., University of Idaho Extension, Bingham County
Description: This is an archived version of the webinar conducted May 10, 2011. The training is intended for parent and family life educators who want to learn about a new program that teaches individuals how to balance time, manage stress, eat mindfully, be physically active, and sleep well in order to live a more balanced life. "Balanced Living" was written by Laura Sant and Marnie Spencer, two University of Idaho educators with many years of experience teaching adult audiences. During this 90-minute webinar, the authors provide an overview of the "Balanced Living" curriculum and how it can be conducted.
Living in the New Normal: Supporting Children Through Trauma and Loss
Description: Sparked by concerns about military children dealing with illness, injury, or death of a parent, the Living in the New Normal or LINN initiative was developed through collaboration with experts in the fields of trauma and grief, resiliency, health care, and child development.
LINN encourages families to ensure their children have the tools to weather life's storms, fosters homefront efforts to support military children, and provides educators and other concerned adults with information to help them support children during times of uncertainty, trauma, and grief.
Managing in Tough Times National Extension Initiative (MiTT)
Description: The Managing in Tough Times resource directory, MiTTNet, is a fully searchable website with resources and educational materials aimed at individuals and families, farms and ranches, communities, and youth cope with economic crises and hardships.
Managing Stress: Turning Challenges into Blessings
Description: This lesson guide provides activities and suggestions for turning stresses into growth, and challenges into blessings.
Preparing for Deployment in the 21st Century
Author: Varcoe, Karen (1 more by this author); Holly Gifford; Nancy B. Lees
Description: This presentation covers issues that families face both at home and away in communicating and working together when one member is deployed on military service.
Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders
Description: This manual, from the the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series, examines the nature of substance abuse; its impact on child development; in-home examination, screening, and assessment for substance abuse; treatment goals and approaches; the role of the child protective services (CPS) caseworker when substance abuse is identified; and how professionals can work together to help families.
Description: This comprehensive site from Purdue University is geared to educators interested in helping parents and children in their explorations and understanding of war, terrorism and peacemaking.
Description: This section of Purple Wagon is geared to parents and contains articles about parents attitudes about war and peace, and also ideas and information about how to talk to children about these issues.
Purple Wagon: Educators, Teachers and Childcare Providers
Description: This section of Purple Wagon is geared to educators, teachers and childcare providers. It contains classroom activities and links about how to talk to children about war, terrorism and peacemaking.
Purple Wagon: Resouces for Military Families
Description: This section of Purple Wagon provides several fact sheets for military families and their children. There are also a number of resources for teachers who may have the children of military parents in their classrooms.
Recognizing Stress in Children
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: Children are the most vulnerable population. Times of disaster and trauma increase their vulnerability. Recognizing children's symptoms of stress is not easy. This fact sheet presents tips on recognizing stress in children, particularly during crises or disasters.
Description: This site provides a variety of resources for responding to mental health crisis in schools.
Secrets of Parenting 1, MP3 and Transcript
Description: Listen to Karen DeBord in this podcast recording as she makes suggestions for helping parents connect and build healthy relationships with their children. This podcast focuses on ways to cope and guide children. Links to the recording and to a transcript of the podcast are provided.
Stress - Taking Charge: Helping Children Manage Stress
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This publication addresses some of the common situations that cause stress and worry among young children. It gives practical ways for parents and gaurdians to help them cope with that stress.
Stress - Taking Charge: Managing Conflict with Teens
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This publications offers suggestions on ways of taking charge over stress through managing seven sources of conflict: Curfews, Homework, Chores, House Rules, Amount of Freedom, Talking Back, and Swearing.
Stress - Taking Charge: Managing Stress in Young Families
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author); Mary Winter; Colleen Jolly
Description: This publication discusses stress management in young families through eleven sources of stress: Job and family roles, Making ends meet, Making ends meet, Finding affordable housing, Learning to parent, Parenting alone, Finding child care, Children’s illness or school problems, Loss of leisure time, Couple conflict, and Relationships with parents.
Stress - Taking Charge: Stress for Families with Teens
Author: Molgaard, Virginia (19 more by this author)
Description: This publications focuses on families with teens and discusses eight common stresses for teens and how to cope with these sources of stress: Teen less involved with family, struggles over family rules, increased arguments, parents’ own challenges, money struggles, nutritional concerns, not enough time, and worry over serious problems.
Author: Jewett, Jan; Karen Peterson
Description: This fact sheet describes how young children experience, cope with and adapt to stress. It offers suggestions on what parents and other adults can do to help children deal with stress.
Stress Management: Preventing Stress through Lifestyle Management
Description: This fact sheet on stress management examines the issue from the perspective of what a healthy lifestyles looks like.
Stress Management: Understanding Stress
Description: This fact sheet on stress management offers suggestion on how to relax and provides tips on using relaxation exercises to manage stress
Stress Management: Ways to Cope
Description: This fact sheet on stress management examines the issue from the perspective of coping and support.
Stress Management: Your Lifelines
Description: This fact sheet on stress management offers suggestion on how to be a good listener, and have better communication and conflict resolution skills.
Taking Care of the Parent: Replacing Stress with Peace
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author)
Description: This publication is intended to help parents deal with stress so that they can be more peaceful and more effective parents.
Taking Care of the Parent: Replacing Stress with Peace
Description: This fact sheet provides information on dealing with the stresses of parenting.
Talking to Children When the Unexpected Happens
Author: Mader, Sharon (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions on how to talk with their children during stressful times and help them deal with frightening situations or news events.
Talking to Kids about Violence, Terrorism, and War
Description: This fact sheet is geared toward helping educators facilitate children's understanding of violence, terrorism, war and other world events. Offers suggestions for talking with children and responding to changes in behavior.
Talking with Children When the Talking Gets Tough
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for talking with children during challenging periods of conflict, stress, or about difficult topics.
Telling the Kids You Lost Your Job
Description: This is a fact sheet on how to tell your children that you lost your job.
Telling the Kids You Lost Your Job Podcast
Description: This is a podcast on how to tell your children that you lost your job.
The Child Advocate: Helping Children Cope After a Disaster
Author: Petersen, Christopher
Description: This site provides links and resources aimed at helping children cope after a disaster.
The Family-to-Family Education Program
Description: The Family-to-Family Education Program is a free 12-session course on mental illness that includes ways to understand the illness and how to help the person who has the illness.
The Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect: Identification of High Risk Parents
Author: Bavolek, Stephen (1 more by this author)
Description: Summary of Stephen J. Bavolek's research presentation at the CYFAR 2003 Conference. Provides an overview of the research in the identification of high risk parenting practices that lead to the maltreatment of children, and the five parenting patterns that contribute to abuse and neglect: Inappropriate parental expectations; lack of parental empathy; strong belief in the use of corporal punishment; reversing parent-child family roles; and oppressing childrenÂ’s power and independence.
The Stressed Family: Managing Conflict
Description: This is a fact sheet on managing conflict in your family.
The Stressed Family: Managing Conflict Podcast
Description: This is a podcast on managing conflict in your family.
Tips on Family Court and How to Work with Your Lawyer
Description: This article provides tips on family court and working with a lawyer.
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Description: The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc. (TAPS) is a national non-profit organization made up of, and providing services to, all those who have lost a loved one while serving in the Armed Forces. TAPS provides survivor peer support network, grief counseling referral, case worker assistance and crisis information to help families and military personnel cope and recover. Services are provided 24 hours a day and are free of charge.
Understanding Your Young Child
Description: Understanding developmental stages is essential to good parenting. Children have different timetables for their development. Although each child has his or her own individual growth timetable, all children go through stages. This fact sheet provides a checklist of traits of the different stages.
Author: Jakes, Susan (21 more by this author)
Description: This resource provides a summary of an interactive telephone training designed to help participants learn more about the resources we have posted about helping your communities cope with the war in Iraq. Topics include: Talking with Children about War and Terrorism, Classroom Resources, Stress and Coping, Protecting children from Traumatic Media Exposure,Patriotism, Related Organizations and Links and Resources for Military Families.
What a World - Enhancing Conversations with Children
Description: This PowerPoint presentation, by Dr. Karen DeBord, addresses how parents and educators can help children who may be experiencing stress in the wake of disaster or trauma, either natural or man-made. It discusses the power of play, strategies for teachers and outreach, as well as a discussion of adult stressors.
Description: Sesame Workshop presents personal stories about coping with the death of a parent. Katie Couric joins Elmo and his furry friends to model communication between adults and children. They’ll also offer thoughtful suggestions and strategies that help the whole family.
Your Guide to Preparing for Emergencies
Description: This website is aimed at helping families prepare for an emergency. This handbook organizes many of the factsheets found on this website in a handbook for easy use.
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Afterschool: A Strategy for Addressing and Preventing Middle School Bullying (2011)
Description: This brief from MetLife Foundation Afterschool Alliance exames critical issues facing middle school youth and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues. The brief concludes that afterschool programs can provide a link to community partners who bring new voices to help children to stand up to those who bully.
Families Under Stress: What Makes Them Resilient
Author: McCubbin, Hamilton
Description: Research on resilience in families has shed light on family protective factors and family recovery factors that appear to play a critical role in promoting the family's ability to maintain its established patterns of functioning after being challenged by risk factors and in fostering the family's ability to recover or bounce back quickly from misfortune and family crises. The nature of family risk factors, the central concepts of family resilience, and research findings demonstrating the variability in family protective and family recovery factors are presented and discussed. Based on the 1997 American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Commemorative Lecture
How trauma ‘gets under the skin’
Author: Michaels, Cari (2 more by this author)
Description: Children are particularly sensitive to the effects of stress, and thus environmental factors that stress children including neglect and abuse can negatively affect a child's biological and cognitive development, as well as their behavior and social relationships. This Children’s Mental Health eReview summarizes the research, possible interventions, follwed by practitioners discussing the implications for practice and policy.
Resiliency Research Review: Conceptual & Research Foundations
Author: Silliman, Benjamin (6 more by this author)
Description: Overview of the key concepts and definitions of resiliency with extensive bibliography as of 1994.
Risk and Resilience in Development
Description: Invited Research Presentation at the 2011 USDA DoD Family Resiliency Conference by Anne Masten of the University of Minnesota. Ann Masten presents research highlights spanning four decades from four waves of research on resilience. Resilience is defined from a dynamic systems perspective. Findings from the world literature are summarized on the key protective systems that generate resilience in human development. Lessons learned and cautions are discussed, particularly in regard to facilitating resilience in families. A general framework for reducing risk and promoting resilience is presented, with examples of different strategies for reducing stress, enhancing adaptive capacity, or promoting recovery among children, youth, and families faced with severe adversity.
Risk and Resilience in Homeless Children
Author: Michaels, Cari (2 more by this author)
Description: This Children’s Mental Health eReview summarizes the concepts of risk and resilience as they relate to homeless youth and their parents to provide a clearer understanding of the impact of homelessness on child development and well-being. Following a discussion of the research, including MN data on homeless families, practitioners discuss the implications for practice and policy.
The Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect: Identification of High Risk Parents
Author: Bavolek, Stephen (1 more by this author)
Description: Summary of Stephen J. Bavolek's research presentation at the CYFAR 2003 Conference. Provides an overview of the research in the identification of high risk parenting practices that lead to the maltreatment of children, and the five parenting patterns that contribute to abuse and neglect: Inappropriate parental expectations; lack of parental empathy; strong belief in the use of corporal punishment; reversing parent-child family roles; and oppressing childrenÂ’s power and independence.
The Role of Incarceration on Parenting
Author: Arditti, Joyce
Description: Joyce Arditti's research presentation from the CYFAR Conference 2010 examines how demographic status, cumulative disadvantage, institutional practices, and a sociopolitical environment characterized by stigma affect the context and processes of parenting within the context of parental imprisonment. The implications of parental incarceration on families are considered, and challenges and recommendations for research, intervention and policy discussed.
Understanding the Role of Race and Ethnicity on Family Values and Parenting
Author: Best, Sarah
Description: A starting place for understanding that our culture or ethnicity and why we came to the United States influences our family values and parenting styles. It provides a tool for discussion, a framework in which to think about your own values and biases, and an opportunity to critically evaluate your programming.
What is Trauma and Why is it Important?
Description: This issue of Children's Mental Health eReview focuses on trauma and child welfare systems. The issue defines trauma and describes its significance. Implications for practice and policy are included.