Showing papers in "Child Welfare in 1975"

Development of a Professional Identity for the Child Care Worker

Abstract: The movement toward professionalization of the child care field confronts serious and complex problems of conceptualization and practical organization of roles, programs, and personnel This article describes and analyzes these issues in the context of current practice and the emerging professionalization of the field

Parent Involvement in Day Care: Its Impact on Staff and Classroom Environments.

Abstract: The purpose of the study was to assess the extent of parent involvement in preschool day care and its impact on staff and on classroom environments, which were conceptualized as child-centered or adult-centered. A total of fifteen directors, thirty teachers, thirty classrooms and 524 children constituted the populations of the study. Interview schedules and a classroom Observation scale werethe two instruments used. The findings indicate(1) that proportions of parents who are board members is not a determinant of.parent influence, (2) that there is a relations-hip between. the amount of parent involvement in administrative areas such as fiscal control, hiring and firing, and personnel practices and the amount of influence in curriculum/teaching areas, (3) that this influence is mediated primarily through the director, and (4) that the amount of parent involvement is related to whether classrooms will' be child-centered or adult-centered, and that this relationship varies with the social-class status and educational level of parent policymakers. *N.B.: This article is based on a large-scale study of parent involvement.

Latency-group art therapy: teaching socialization skills through art.

Abstract: An art therapy experiment involving 10 weekly sessions for six latency-age emotionally disturbed boys produced marked improvements in peer relationships and socialization skills.

Measuring adequacy of child caring: further developments.

Abstract: New testing of the Childhood Level of Living Scale offers evidence of its reliability in defining factors in child neglect.

Examples of adolescent group homes in alliance with larger institutions.

Abstract: Use of the group home in combination with the services of larger institutions for disturbed adolescents has many treatment advantages if the home program is tailored to the specific needs of the youngsters served.

Residential care of the child-mother and her infant: an extended family concept.

Abstract: A residential programs for single, young mothers and their infants uses the concept of a new extended family to achieve several purposes: training the mothers in parenting skill, giving them a chance of complete educations or vocational preparation, and providing care and developmental opportunity for the infants.