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Social Supports for Youth and Families

Community Mental Health Journal, 2009
Social supports for youth and families receiving mental health services are important for family success and sustainability of systems of care. The goal of our study was to determine what help and support families and youth receive and from whom they receive it.
Joan B, Kernan, Marie, Morilus-Black
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Family social support

Advances in Nursing Science, 1988
Nursing clinical assessment and empirical investigations of the social support resources available to families are hampered by the lack of theoretical bases regarding the family social support process. This article presents a preliminary conceptual model of family social support in the interest of stimulating discussion and further development ...
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Social Support for Families

1997
There are several reasons why a public policy intervention is needed in child care provision.
Anna Coote, Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt   +2 more
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Intergenerational family relations and social support

Zeitschrift f�r Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 1999
A parallel process to the aging of societies in the Western world occurs in changing family structures and network compositions. The shape of families is shifting from horizontal to vertical, where the size of generations is becoming smaller but the number of living generations is increasing.
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Family, Friends and Social Support

2014
The focus for most of the other chapters in this text has been on the person with the wound and the significant psychosocial problems that they may have to confront. However, in this chapter we explore the broader social situation and how this can impact on the individual with the wound and how, in turn, that patient influences it.
Dominic Upton, Penney Upton
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Social Support in Postdivorce Families

1996
Raising children in a postdivorce family can be an especially demanding and complex task (Emery, 1988). Even though many of the most severe stresses associated with the divorce process are substantially attenuated within 2 years (Hetherington, 1989), parents and children in postdivorce families continue to face challenges related to coparental ...
Inge Bretherton, Reghan Walsh, Molly Lependorf   +2 more
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Social support, familial stigma and release

2020
This chapter assesses interactions with individuals and agencies external to the caregivers' own social and family networks. Research has shown that families and children experience stigma through their association with a prisoner. Relatedly, the narratives of the caregiving kin bring sharply into focus the lived realities of the discrimination and ...
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Social Care: Family and Community Support Systems

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1989
The growing number of elderly is bringing about dramatic changes in family life, in the nature and extent of interventions necessary to support an aging population, and in our notions about respective roles of family and community in providing for these needs.
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Extended Families: Support, Socialization, and Stress

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 2016
Modern American families take many shapes, and financial educators must meet the needs of diverse family structures, including extended families. Extended family households have increased since the recent recession, and additional family members can be both a source of support and a burden to the household.
Jinhee Kim, Taylor L. Spangler, Michael S. Gutter   +2 more
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Perceived Family and Social Support: Impact on Children

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1994
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation of children's perceived family and social support to their behavior and hopelessness.Subjects were 100 child psychiatric inpatients who completed a series of self-report measures, including the Social Support Questionnaire-Self Report, the Scales of Independent Behavior, and the Hopelessness ...
J H, Kashani, L A, Canfield, C M, Borduin, S M, Soltys, J C, Reid   +4 more
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