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Mars 2002
Bradley, Robert H. ; Corwyn, Robert F. ; McAdoo Harriette Pipes, and Coll, Cynthia Garcia.
The home environment of children in the United States Part 1 : Variations by Age, ethnicity and
poverty status. Child Development. 2001 ; 72 (6) :1844-1867.
Résumé : Although measures of the home environment have gained wide acceptance in the child
development literature, what constitutes the "average" or "typical" home environment in the United
States, and how this differs across ethnic groups and poverty status is not known. Item-level data
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on four age-related versions of the Home
Observation for Measurement of the Environment-Short Form (HOME-SF) from five biennial
assessments (1986-1994) were analyzed for the total sample and for four major ethnic groups.
European Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans. The
percentages of homes receiving credit on each item of all four versions of the HOME-SF are
described. For the majority of items at all four age levels differences between poor and nonpoor
families were noted. Differences were also obtained among African American, European American,
and Hispanic American families, but the magnitude of the effect for poverty status was greater
than for ethnicity, and usually absorbed most of the ethnic group effects on HOME-SF items. For
every item at every age, the effects of poverty were proportional across European American,
African American, and Hispanic American groups.
Cicchetti, Dante ; Rappaport, Julian; Sandler, Irwin, and Weissberg, Roger P. The promotion
of wellness in children and adolescents. Washington, D.C. : CWLA Press; 2000.
Table des matières :
1-Theorical and evaluation issues in the promotion of wellness and the protection of “ well enough”
(Lorion)
2- Adolescent wellness : In the eye of the beholder ( Luthar et Burack)
3- Empowerment, wellness, and the politics of development (Wiley et Rappaport)
4- Wellness and an ecological entreprise (Kelly)
5- Resilience as cumulative competence promotion and stress protection : Theory and intervention
(Wyram, Sandler, Wolchik et Nelson)
6- Suggestions for the investigation of psychological wellness inthe neighborhood context : Toward
a pluralistic neighborhood theory (Aber et Nieto)
7- Health promotion as a strategy in primary prevention (Durlack)
8- Wellness in the schools : The Grandfather of primary prevention tells a story (Elias et
Weissberg)
9- Educational reform as ecologically-based prevention and promotion : Yhe project on hight
perfomance learning communities (Felner)
10- Interventions to promote social support in children and adolescents ( Barrera et Prelow)
11- Pursuit so wellness in head start : making benefical connections for children and families
(Fandtuzzo et Mohr)
12- Intervention with diverse children and adolescents : contextualizing a wellness orientation
(Trickett et Birman)
13- The development of psychological wellness in matreated children (Cicchetti, Toth et Rogsch)
14- Porgy and Bess and the concept of wellness (Sarason)
15- The importance of being emory : Issues in training for the enhancement of psychological
wellness (Schneider)
16- Psychological wellness : Some hopes for the future (Cowen)
Costigan, Catherine L. and Cox Martha J. Fathers' participation in family research : Is there
a self-selection bias. Journal of Family Psychology. 2001 ; 15 (4) :706-720.
Résumé : The representativeness of fathers who participate in family research was examined among
661 families. Approximately two thirds of eligible fathers participated. Mothers' and observers'
reports on families of participating and nonparticipating fathers were compared. Participating
fathers underrepresented fathers with less education, later-born children, more ambivalent
marriages, partners with more traditional child-rearing beliefs, families with less optimal parenting
environments, and infants who were unplanned, had more difficult temperaments, and were less
healthy. Also underrepresented were ethnic minority families and working-class fathers. However,
no differences were found in regard to child gender, family income, mothers' psychosocial
functioning, either parent's employment experiences, or child-care arrangements. Implications for
the generalizability of findings and the recruitment of fathers are discussed.
Dandurand, Renée B. ; Lefebvre, Pierre, and Lamoureux, Jean-Pierre. Quelle politique
familiale à l'aube de l'an 2000 ? 65e congrès de l'ACFAS ; Trois-Rivière. Montréal : L'Harmattan ;
1998. ISBN : 2-7384-6432-7 .
Résumé :
1ere partie :
Entre travail et vie familiale : le modèle suédois (Arve-Parès)
La politique française à l'égard de la petite enfance (Norvez)
Assistantes maternelles et réorientation des services de garde en France : quans la politique
familiale se conjugue à une politique d'emploi (Bergeron et Saint-Pierre)
Le gouvernement Harris et la garde des enfants : la privatisation, la municipalisation ou autre chose
? ( Andrew)
Politique familiale et sécurité du revenu à l'aube de l'an 2000 : regard sur le discours féministe
québecois (Descarries et Corbeil)
2e partie :
L'assurance parentale : la nouvelle politique québécoise et les prestations réservées aux pères
(Lepage et Moisan)
La politique familiale à l'épreuve de la diversification des trajectoires parentales des hommes (Le
Bourdais, Juby et Desrosiers)
Conséquences de la séparation conjugale sur les pères, les mères et les enfants. Réflexions pour la
politique familiale (Simard et Beaudry)
Que nous disent les pères divorcés à propos des transitions familiales ? (Dulac)
Le père et ses politiques (De Singly)
3e partie :
Les nouvelles orientations de la politique familiale du Québec : une critique de l'allocation unifiée
(Lefevbre)
Politiques pourles familles pauvres : supplément au revenu gagné et revenus minimums garantis
(Rose)
Politique familiale "implicite" et Welfare aux États-Unis (Villeneuve et Lesemann)
Trois, quatre ou cinq modèles de politiques familiales au sein des pays européens et néo-européens ?
(Gauthier)
Dufour, Sarah. La santé mentale des enfants de milieux défavorisés. Conceptions, pratiques
et profils de pères.: Université du Québec à Montréal ; 2001.
Résumé : Non disponible
Fisher, Philip A. ; Ellis, Heidi, and Chamberlain, Patricia. Eearly intervention foster care : A
model for preventing risk in young children who have been maltreated . Children's Services : Social
Policy, Research and Practice. 1999 ; 2(3):159-182.
Résumé: Treatment foster care (TFC) allows troubled youth to remain in the community and live in a
family setting. Prior studies suggest that TFC may be an effective alternative to more restrictive
interventions. However, most TFC programs have been designed to treat elementary school age
youth and adolescents. At a time when the foster care population is burgeoning, and the proportion
of very young children in the system is increasing, there is a need for TFC programs specifically
designed to meet the needs of maltreated preschoolers. In this article the authors describe an
early intervention foster care program that targets 3 areas: behavior problems, emotional
regulation, and developmental delays. The theoretical model for the program is also described, along
with recommendations for the implementation of similar programs.
Foster-Fishman, Pennie G. ; Salem, Deborah A ; Allen, Nicole A, and Fahrbach, Kyle.
Facilitating interorganizational collaboration :
The contribution of interoganizational alliances. American
Journal of Community Psychology. 2001 ; 29(6):875-905.
Résumé: In an attempt to promote service delivery integration and improve interorganizational
collaboration, many recent human service delivery initiatives have included the development of
interorganizational alliances such as coalitions and coordinating councils. Despite their popularity,
little is known about how these alliances influence interorganizational collaboration, specifically the
extent to which they alter the interactions among human service delivery organizations. The
present study examined the interorganizational interactions, specifically, the exchange
relationships, within one county that was implementing two interorganizational alliances-a county
wide coordinating council and interagency service delivery teams. Membership on both alliances was
associated with broader interorganizational exchange networks. Organizations involved in a
coordinating council were more likely to be included in client, information, and resource exchanges,
and participate in joint ventures with a broader range of organizations. Providers involved in
interagency teams also exchanged clients and information with a broader sector of service delivery
organizations than nonparticipating providers. Observational data suggested that both alliances
created structures and processes intended to facilitate interorganizational exchanges. Together,
these results suggest that the development of opportunities for and encouragement of staff and
leader involvement in these types of alliances may be an important part of our attempt to create a
more integrated social service delivery system. The implications of these findings for researchers
and practitioners are discus
Fox, Lise and Little, Nancy. Starting early : Developing school-wide behavior in a community
preschool. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. 2001;3(4):251-254.
Résumé : An example of school-wide behavior support applied in an inclusive community is presented
in this article. The authors provide a description of their collaboration in developing a systemic
model of behavior support that includes universal prevention elements and individual intensive
support systems. Each element of school-wide behavior support is described, emphasizing how it is
implemented with young children (aged 1-4 yrs).
Giroux, Guy and Dion, Bernard. L'éthique de l'intervention en protection de la jeunesse pour
contrer l'exclusion sociale. Comprendre la famille ; Trois-Rivières. Québec : Presse du l'université
du Québec; 2000Actes du 5e symposium québécois sur la famille. ISBN : 2-7605-1104-9.
Résumé : Non disponible
Jones, Andrew W. ; Hutchinson, Richard N. ; Van Dyke, Nella; Gates, Leslie, and Companion,
Michele. Coalition form and mobilization effectiveness in local social movements. Sociological
Spectrum. 2001 ; 21 : 207-231.
Résumé : Little has been written on the form that coalitions take in social movements. Three
months of fieldwork by a five-person team documented the population of social movement events
(SMEs) across seven movements in a Southwestern city. We investigated the process and form that
led to these events at the interorganizational level. Three different coalition forms, as well as
single social movement organizations (SMOs) acting alone, organized the SMEs. The "network
invocation" form - a single SMO making strategic and framing decisions while encouraging other
SMOs in its network to mobilize participants - was significantly more effective than other forms at
mobilizing attendance at events.
Kishchuk, Natalie and Clément, Marie-Ève. Vers une écologie des facteurs de risque et de
protection de la compromission du développement de l'enfant en milieu rural. Saint-Antoine, Québec
: Centre jeunesse des Laurentides/Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux des
Laurentides / CLSC-CHSLD des Trois Vallées; 2002(Un projet de recherche-action réalisé sur le
territoire de la MRC des Laurentides).
Résumé: Non disponible
O'Connor, Pat. Supporting mothers : issues in a community mothers programme. Community
Work & Family. 2001 ; 4 (1): 63-85.
Résumé: Discusses the aims, development, and evaluation of a community support program which
implicitly challenges the assumption that the existence of a partner and local kin obviates the need
to support women when they come home from hospital with a new baby. Implicit in this program is
the idea that support by mothers, of mothers, validates the activity of child care and is one way of
facilitating the child's development. This program was successful in terms of its perceived impact
on both the providers and the recipients' ability to parent, in terms of providing training and
support for providers, and in terms of strengthening links within the community and between the
providers and the statutory and voluntary sectors. However, since the very model of care was a
"paid volunteering" one which perpetuated women's economic dependency, it is said to be a moot
point whether it also perpetuated the devaluing of women's work. The subsequent mainstreaming of
the program and its inclusion of teenage lone mothers, who are likely to be co-parenting with their
own mothers, raises still further questions about the complex and ambiguous nature of support for
women.
Paavilainen, E. ; Astedt-Kurki, P. ; Paunonen-Ilmonen, M., and Laippala, P. Risk factors of child
maltreatment within the family : towards a knowledgeable base of family nursing. International
Journal of Nursing Studies. 2001 ; 38 : 297-303.
Résumé : The purpose of this study was to compare family dynamics in child maltreating
families
(n = 42) with that in ordin ary Families with children (n = 77), and to ascertain risk factors of child
maltreatment within the family. Child maltreatment was defined as physical, psychological or sexual
abuse or neglect of a child by a parent. Data were collected using questionnaires (Family Dynamics
Measure 2, FMD 2) (N = 119) basing on Barnhill's conceptual framework of healthy family systems
and analysed by forming sum variables and logistic regression. The study results indicate that
family functioning in child maltreating families is lower on all dimensions of family dynamics
(individuation, mutuality, flexibility, stability, communication and roles) than that in ordinary
families with children. Furthermore, it seems that specifc risk factors, detected with logistic
regression analysis, are related to whether child maltreatment occurs in the family or not. These
include the parent's low educational background, many children in the family, unemployment of a
parent, low individuation of the family members, and poor stability and security within the family.
The results of this study provide guidelines for detecting and preventing child maltreatment as well
as for recognising its existence, although no generalizations can be made due to the small sample
size and complexity of the phenomenon under study.
Parton, Nigel and Mathews, Richard. New directions in child protection and family support in
western Australia : a policy initiative to re-focus child welfare practice. Child and Family Social
Work. 2001 ; 6: 97-113.
Résumé : Discusses the situation of child welfare agencies being overwhelmed by a massive increase
in child protection referrals which require investigation, while there has been a growing failure to
develop preventive family support services. The authors describe the changes introduced in
Western Australia to address this situation in what has come to be called New Directions in Child
Protection and Family Support. The results demonstrate that the changes have led to a significant
restructuring of the way the Department of Family and Children's Services there responds to
concerns expressed about children. It is argued that this has had an impact on the proportion of
child maltreatment cases which are substantiated and the way responses are prioritized and
allocated, and has provided the Department with a more explicitly and clearer focus for its work in
a period of increasing demand and rapid change.
Petterson, Stephen M and Albers, Alison Burke. Effects of poverty and maternal depression
on early child development. Child Development. 2001 ; 72(6):1794-1813.
Résumé : Researchers have renewed an interest in the harmful consequences of poverty on child
development. This study builds on this work by focusing on one mechanism that links material
hardship to child outcomes, namely the mediating effect of maternal depression. Using data from
the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey, we found that maternal depression and poverty
jeopardized the development of very young boys and girls, and to a certain extent, affluence
buffered the deleterious consequences of depression. Results also showed that chronic maternal
depression had severe implications for both boys and girls, whereas persistent poverty had a strong
effect for the development of girls. The measures of poverty and maternal depression used in this
study generally had a greater impact on measures of cognitive development than motor
development.
Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux. Rapport annuel 2000-2001. Montréal :
Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux, Montréal-Centre ; 2001 (Le défi de l'accès, l'an
3).
Résumé: Non disponible
Shonk, Susan M. and Cicchetti, Dante. Maltreatment, competency deficits, and risk for
academic and behavioral maladjustment. Developmental Psychology. 2001 ; 37 (1):3-17.
Résumé: Maltreatment was predicted to negatively affect children's academic and behavioral
adjustment through the creation of deficits in academic engagement, social competencies, ego
resiliency, and ego control. Teachers' comprehensive evaluations, school records, and camp
counselors' ratings were obtained for 229 socioeconomically disadvantaged children (ages 5-12
years), 146 of whom had been maltreated. Maltreated children showed less academic engagement,
more social skills deficits, and lower ego resiliency than nonmaltreated comparison children.
Maltreated children manifested multiple forms of academic risk and showed more externalizing and
internalizing behavior problems. The effects of maltreatment on academic maladjustment were
partially mediated by academic engagement, whereas maltreatment's effects on behavior problems
were mediated fully by social competencies and ego resiliency.
Tulananda, Oracha and Roopnarine, Jaipaul L. Mothers' and fathers' interactions with
preschoolers in the home in nothern Thailand : Relationships to teachers' assessments of children's
social skills. Journal of Family Psychology. 2001 ; 15 (4):676-687.
Résumé: Using ecocultural theory as a guide, the authors observed some everyday activities of
mothers and fathers with children for 2 hr in the home in 53 families residing in Chaing Mai
Province in northern Thailand. Teachers provided assessments of children's general social skills in
preschool using the Preschool Kindergarten Behavior Scale (K. W. Merrell, 1994). Mothers were
significantly more likely to engage in basic care, general conversations, and educational activities; to
praise; and to use commands and reasoning as forms of discipline with children than fathers.
Mothers and fathers did not significantly differ in the display of affection, teasing or joking, and
modes of play interactions with children. Parents generally treated boys and girls similarly. Few
associations between parent-child involvement and children's social skills in preschool were
significant. Data are discussed with respect to changes in culturally driven parent-child practices.
Vimpani, Graham. Child development and the civil society : does social capital matter ?
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2000 ; 21 (1) :44-47.
Résumé : Pas disponible
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu and Seidman, Edward. Multidimentional profiles of welfare and work
dynamics : Development, validation, and associations with child cognitive and mental health
outcomes. American Journal of Community Psychology. 2001 ; 29 (6) :907-936.
Résumé : This prospective longitudinal study addresses the research gap in the literature regarding
multidimensional variation in welfare use and employment patterns, and relationships of such
variation with parent earnings and child development outcomes. This study also aims to address the
limitations of welfare dynamics studies that do not examine how multiple dimensions of welfare
receipt and employment co-occur. Cluster analysis was utilized, using monthly welfare and
employment data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, to examine variation within the
welfare population in their welfare and work patterns across the first 5 years of children's lives.
Six cluster profiles of welfare and work dynamics were found: Short-Term, Short-Term Work Exit,
Working Cyclers, Nonworking Cyclers, Cycle to Long-Term Exit, and Long-Term. The clusters were
validated using mother's 6th-year earnings as the criterion. The clusters' associations with child
development outcomes in the cognitive and mental health domains ( at ages 6 and 7) were then
explored. Work following short-term welfare use was associated with higher child reading scores
than that following long-term use (a moderate-size effect). Cycling on and off welfare in the
context of high levels of employment was associated with higher child internalizing symptoms than
cycling accompanied by low levels of employment (a moderate-size effect). Implications for
evaluation of TANF welfare-to-work policies are discussed.