America's Family Support Programs (Paperback)

Sharon Lynn Kagan

ISBN 10: 0300057857 / ISBN 13: 9780300057850

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993

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Paperback. In this book a blue-ribbon group of practitioners, researchers, and policymakers provide an overview of the numerous programs that have emerged in the past decade in response to the changing needs of families. Addressing the historical and social context of current family support efforts, the range and variety of the programs, available research, and the challenges of funding, staffing, and managing them, it chronicles past problems and accomplishments and offers specific recommendations for the future. "A timely and important book."T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. "This remarkable volume surveys a multitude of services available to support the increasingly beleaguered family; the focus is on local services, in the context of organizations and outside them. the book's emphasis on available services makes it a key resource for health professionals, but its aim is broader-to foster advocacy of change in organizational and governmental policies."Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic A group of practitioners, researchers and policy makers provide an overview of the family support programmes that emerged in the 1980s in response to the changing needs of families. The authors chronicle past problems and accomplishments and offer specific recommendations for the future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: America's Family Support Programs (Paperback)
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300057857
• ISBN 13: 9780300057850
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In this book a blue-ribbon group of practitioners researchers and policymakers provide an overview of the numerous programs that have emerged in the past decade in response to the changing needs of families. Addressing the historical and social context of current family support efforts the range and variety of the programs available research and the challenges of funding staffing and managing them it chronicles past problems and accomplishments and offers specific recommendations for the future. "A timely and important book."--T. Berry Brazelton M.D. "This remarkable volume surveys a multitude of services available to support the increasingly beleaguered family; the focus is on local services in the context of organizations and outside them. the book's emphasis on available services makes it a key resource for health professionals but its aim is broader-to foster advocacy of change in organizational and governmental policies."--Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

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In this book a blue-ribbon group of practioners, researchers, and policymakers provides an overview of the family support programs that have emerged in the past decade in response to the changing needs of families.