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A Bilingual “Neighborhood Club”: Intervening with Children Exposed to Urban Violence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-04-18)
Mental health practitioners have offered relatively little in response to the pervasive community violence faced by many children living in impoverished neighborhoods. The “neighborhood club” is a school-based, short-term, ...
Transnational Ties and Mental Health of Caribbean Immigrants
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2004-10)
Immigration scholars have demonstrated the increasing importance of transnational activities among contemporary immigrants. While much of the previous research has emphasized social and economic outcomes, very little ...
Family and neighborhood welfare dependency and sons' labor supply
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-09)
This article tests four models of how parental and childhood welfare use affects sons' labor supply: the correlated disadvantages model, Wilson's structural-environmental model, Mead's welfare culture model, and Murray's ...
Parenting Stress, Perceived Child Regard, and Depressive Symptoms Among Stepmothers and Biological Mothers
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-12)
The Academic Achievement of African American Students During Early Adolescence: An Examination of Multiple Risk, Promotive, and Protective Factors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
This study examined the effects of multiple risk, promotive, and protective factors on three achievement-related measures (i.e., grade point average, number of absences, and math achievement test scores) for African American ...
The relative stability of cohabiting and marital unions for children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-04)
Children are increasingly born into cohabiting parent families, but we know little to date about the implications of this family pattern for children's lives. We examine whether children born into premarital cohabitation ...
A Substance Use Prevention Framework: Considering the Social Context for African American Girls
(Blackwell Science Inc, 2000-09)
Intervention for Children Exposed to Interparental Violence (IPV): Assessment of Needs and Research Priorities
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-09)
In this paper we review the development of interventions for children who have been exposed to interparental violence (IPV), assess current needs in the evaluation of interventions, and provide suggestions for research ...