Disproportionality in the child welfare system refers to the overor underrepresentation of a group (usually a racial/ethnic group) compared to that group’s representation in a base population (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2016). This research brief explores rates of racial disproportionality in the Illinois child welfare system. It is the second brief in a series exploring disproportional...

OBJECTIVE To explore the verbal communication of child care providers regarding preschool children's internal and non-internal hunger and satiation cues. METHODS Video observation transcripts of Head Start staff (n=29) at licensed child care centers in Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada were analyzed for common themes. RESULTS Adults' verbal communication with children at mealtimes emphasized non-...

Recent reform efforts in the child welfare system have called for child welfare agencies to provide community-based services and to increase the involvement of external stakeholders in identifying and developing services within the community. At the same time, child welfare agencies are faced with the challenge of providing services to an increasingly diverse population of children and families...

OBJECTIVE The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness is a strategy designed to address major causes of child mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the strategy on the quality of child health care provided at primary facilities. METHODS Child health quality of care and costs were compared in four states in Northeastern Brazil, in 2001. There were studied 48 health fa...

Conducted a study to determine whether the House-Tree-Person Test might be used as a means to identify physically abused children. Protocols of 32 abused children, 32 nonabused but disturbed children, and 45 apparently very well-adjusted children were examined for the presence of 15 objectively scorable items that emerged as good potential discriminators from a pilot study of 60 children. Resul...

conclusions therapeutic intervention and parent management training improves parenting skill of abusive parents, and this might lead to fewer incidents of abuse or neglect. results participants included 73 children with the mean age of 6.9 ± 4.3 year, while the mean age of parents was 31.76 ± 6.52 year for the mothers and 38.07 ± 8.45 year for the fathers. general anxiety disorder (30.1%) and d...

one of the important and usual missed causes of pediatric traumas is child abuse. this ominous phenomenon, which can be presented physically, psychologically, sexually, and emotionally has grown significantly in recent years. many children are not diagnosed in the early stages of evaluation. battered child syndrome is used to describe the clinical condition of the child serious physical abuse b...

مقالة حاضر بر آن است که اصطلاح نوآورانة «درون‌متنیت» را معرفی و ویژگی‌های شاخص در رمان ابر اطلس اثر دیوید میچل بررسی کند. واژة روایت‌شناختیِ درون‌متنیت از اصول حاکم وحدت ارگانیک چارچوب‌های نظری مرتبط با بینامتنیت تأثیر گرفته است. پرسش‌های اصلی این پژوهش عبارت‌اند از: چیست مؤلفه‌های منحصر به‌فرد چه هستند؟ عناصر ساختاری معنایی سبب می‌شوند جنبه‌های بافت رواییِ مصداق داشته باشند؟ نقشی ایفا می‌کنند؟ م...