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Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child

Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice

By: Sarah A. Font,Elizabeth T. Gershoff

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Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child

Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice

By: Sarah A. Font,Elizabeth T. Gershoff

This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.

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114

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Springer Nature

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303041146X

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9783030411466

Understanding Mother-Adolescent Conflict Discussions

Concurrent and Across-Time Prediction from Youths' Dispositions andParenting

By: Nancy Eisenberg,Claire Hofer,Tracy L. Spinrad,Elizabeth T. Gershoff,Carlos Valiente,Qing Zhou,Amanda Cumberland,Jeffrey Liew,Mark Reiser,Elizabeth Maxon

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Understanding Mother-Adolescent Conflict Discussions

Concurrent and Across-Time Prediction from Youths' Dispositions andParenting

By: Nancy Eisenberg,Claire Hofer,Tracy L. Spinrad,Elizabeth T. Gershoff,Carlos Valiente,Qing Zhou,Amanda Cumberland,Jeffrey Liew,Mark Reiser,Elizabeth Maxon

Adolescence is often thought of as a period during which parent–child interactions can be relatively stressed and conflictual. There are individual differences in this regard, however, with only a modest percent of youth experiencing extremely conflictual relationships with their parents. Relatively little empirical research, however, addresses individual differences in the quality of parent–adolescent interactions concerning potentially conflictual issues. The research reported in this monograph examined dispositional and parenting predictors of the quality of parents’ and their adolescent children’s emotional displays and positive and negative verbalizations when dealing with conflictual issues. Of particular interest were patterns of continuity and discontinuity in the factors related to conflicts. A multimethod, multireporter (mother, teacher, and sometimes adolescent reports) longitudinal approach(over 4 years) was used to assess adolescents’ dispositional characteristics (control/regulation, resiliency, and negative emotionality), youths’ externalizing problems, and parenting variables (warmth, positive expressivity, discussion of emotion, positive and negative family expressivity). Parentadolescent conflicts appear to be influenced by both child characteristics and quality of prior and concurrent parenting, and child effects may be more evident than parent effects in this pattern of relations.

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300

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444307266

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9781444307269

Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools

Legal Precedents, Current Practices, and Future Policy

By: Elizabeth T. Gershoff,Kelly M. Purtell,Igor Holas

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Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools

Legal Precedents, Current Practices, and Future Policy

By: Elizabeth T. Gershoff,Kelly M. Purtell,Igor Holas

This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.S. Supreme Court. As a result of school corporal punishment, nearly 200,000 children are paddled in schools each year. Most Americans are unaware of this fact or the physical injuries sustained by countless school children who are hit with objects by school personnel in the name of discipline. Therefore, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools begins by summarizing the legal basis for school corporal punishment and trends in Americans’ attitudes about it. It then presents trends in the use of school corporal punishment in the United States over time to establish its past and current prevalence. It then discusses what is known about the effects of school corporal punishment on children, though with so little research on this topic, much of the relevant literature is focused on parents’ use of corporal punishment with their children. It also provides results from a policy analysis that examines the effect of state-level school corporal punishment bans on trends in juvenile crime. It concludes by discussing potential legal, policy, and advocacy avenues for abolition of school corporal punishment at the state and federal levels as well as summarizing how school corporal punishment is being used and what its potential implications are for thousands of individual students and for the society at large. As school corporal punishment becomes more and more regulated at the state level, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools serves an essential guide for policymakers and advocates across the country as well as for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students.

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125

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Springer

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3319148184

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9783319148182

How Children Develop (Canadian Edition)

By: Robert S. Siegler,Jenny Saffran,Nancy Eisenberg,Elizabeth Gershoff,Susan Graham

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How Children Develop (Canadian Edition)

By: Robert S. Siegler,Jenny Saffran,Nancy Eisenberg,Elizabeth Gershoff,Susan Graham

How Children Develop continues to be the topically arranged textbook that teachers and researchers trust for the most up to date perspectives on the field of child development. The book has also been fully adapted for a Canadian audience with special attention to Canadian research and topics of special relevance, offering Canadian readers an organic and engaging reading experience. This edition is also more interactive than ever before with a full suite of media for students to learn and practice the material in the LaunchPad course space. In addition to the full eBook, students have access to the book’s celebrated video program, the LearningCurve adaptive quizzing system with a personalized study plan, and other activities.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319269672

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9781319269678

Book's by Elizabeth T. Gershoff

Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child

Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child

Understanding Mother-Adolescent Conflict Discussions

Understanding Mother-Adolescent Conflict Discussions

Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools

Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools

How Children Develop (Canadian Edition)

How Children Develop (Canadian Edition)

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