Microsystem risk and protective factors associated with early sexual intercourse among low-income adolescents were assessed using bioecological theory and a risk and resiliency framework. Waves 1 and 2 of Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study were used (N=984, 10-14 years). Findings showed age, gender, race, two-parent households, separated households, households where the mother f...

Sixty elementary schools in Minneapolis were asked to participate in a study to evaluate the most effective education method to increase booster seat knowledge and use in kindergarten-age children. School personnel selected one of the following interventions: (1) written information, (2) parent education class and a free booster seat, or (3) student education and a free booster seat. Twenty sch...

In the last decades, pedagogical studies and policies in western countries have proposed parental involvement education as formula for maximizing students’ success increasing social equality. building of family-school partnership, a crucial role is commonly attributed to parent-assisted homework. Therefore, homework has increased model “involved” “pedagogically competent” parent become common. ...

This study, which aims to examine the distance education experiences of people who work as teachers but are also parents during COVID-19 pandemic uses descriptive phenomenology, an approach used in qualitative research. The analysis revealed six main themes that explain parent-teachers -- students' academic learning environment, teacher-student communication, use EIN (education information netw...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether parent perceptions about care (barriers, disorder knowledge, treatment willingness) vary among children who drop out of or stay in publicly funded care for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and to explore whether parent perceptions are predictive of staying in care over time. METHODS A longitudinal cohort study of 529 children ages 5 to 11 years rece...

Among clinicians, it is common practice to include parents in treatment, and it has been taken for granted that parents' involvement in their children's treatment is beneficial for therapy outcome, although research on this issue is far from clear. A meta-analysis was carried out in order to investigate whether parent involvement potentiates the outcome for children with anxiety disorders when ...