Within the professional community, a vast number of sexual abuse treatment programs have emerged to meet the needs of victims and their families. Significant variations among these programs can be observed due to differences in philosophy, system context, client focus, problem definition, and the treatment strategy adopted. Unfortunately, little comparative information is available regarding the operation of different programs and, more importantly, their relative treatment effectiveness. This article presents the findings from a nationwide survey of 553 sexual abuse treatment programs. The survey focused on program context, client, and service characteristics. Overall it was found that most programs are affiliated with a larger public or private agency, focus on treating victims, and rely on a combination of individual, family, dyad, and group therapy approaches. 相似文献
Objective: To analyze the association between attitudes of filial responsibility and adult child caregivers’ behaviors in the Southern Region of Brazil.
Methods: Cross-sectional study with 100 child caregivers of older adults. The data were collected through an interview using the protocol of filial responsibility adapted and validated to Brazilian Portuguese. Filial Expectation and Filial Piety scales evaluated the attitudes of filial responsibility. Caring behaviors assessed were: instrumental support, emotional, financial support, and companionship. The variables that presented p< .20 value in the bivariate analysis were inserted into a multivariate Poisson regression model.
Results: Financial and emotional support behaviors were significantly associated with filial piety (p = .050 and p = .001, respectively) and filial expectation (p = .013 and p = .023, respectively). Providing companionship was associated with filial piety (p = .015).
Conclusion: Attitudes of filial responsibility are associated with some but not all caregiving behaviors. Brazilians caring for older parents show more similarities to Chinese than to Canadian caregivers. Furthermore, filial responsibility and caregiving behaviors are strongly affected by Brazilian social and cultural norms. Reasons are discussed. 相似文献
The initial purpose of this study was to determine how counselors used information yielded by multifactor intelligence tests. Data from questionnaires sent to secondary school counselors in two states, however, revealed enormous percentages of nonclassifiable responses regarding these tests. The proportion of nonclassifiable responses varied from 38 percent on questions concerning where different scores were recorded to 70 percent on questions concerning which IQ scores were most and least predictive of scholastic achievement. Consequently, the study concentrated on the reasons for the large number of unusable responses. The findings seemed to indicate a tendency on the part of counselor educators to downgrade the importance of accurate test interpretation. 相似文献
Using national survey data and discrete-time logit modeling, this research seeks to understand whether student aid mediates
the relationship between parental income and student dropout behavior. Our analysis confirms that there is a gap in dropout
rates for low-income students compared with their upper income peers, and suggests that some types of aid are associated with
lower risks of dropout. Thus, we examine the interaction between financial aid type and parental income to explore whether,
and if so how, different types of aid may reduce the dropout gap by income level group. We find that the receipt of a Pell
grant is related to narrowing the dropout gap between students from low- and middle-income groups, although overall the interaction
between Pell grant and income is not significant. Loans and work-study aid both have similar effects on student dropout across
all income groups. Methodologically, our results demonstrate the need to model dropout behavior temporally and to avoid main-effect
bias by incorporating interaction effects.
Serving low-income children from birth to age five and their families, Head Start is a primary venue for identification and intervention in the area of child mental health. However, recent research has demonstrated that the knowledge base regarding prevalence, developmental course, and predictive power of child mental health problems is lacking for young children in general and low-income, diverse populations in particular. Head Start's agency-level data is often discrepant from both national estimates and small, intensive studies of similar populations, perhaps for reasons related to availability of community services and professional staff, as well as concerns about stigmatization. Following on recent expert recommendations, new collaborative Federal initiatives are underway to increase our understanding of the types, trajectories, and treatments of mental health problems affecting the vulnerable children served by Head Start. The paper concludes with a call to action for the field in the area of young children's mental health. 相似文献