America's Family Support Programs: Perspectives and Prospects

Kagan, Sharon Lynn [Editor]; Powell, Douglas R. [Editor]; Weissbourd, Bernice T. [Editor]; Zigler, Edward F. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0300057857 / ISBN 13: 9780300057850

Published by Yale University Press, 1993

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Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood trade paperback. Ink writing on half title page and in table of contents. Sunned and lightly creased cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: America's Family Support Programs: Perspectives and Prospects
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300057857
• ISBN 13: 9780300057850
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 25 ounces

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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

From the Back Cover

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.