Child-Centered Social Support and Families

Whole Child Care: Coordinating Support to Families.

Edward L. Schor, MD A decade before the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its first policy statement on the medical home,1 Stein and Jessop began publishing their work on generic noncategorical dimensions and approaches to pediatric chronic illness. Their thesis was simply that children with various chronic conditions had needs more in common than different.2 The needs they shared ...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Postnatal depression, social support, and child abuse.

Child abduction, parents' distress, and social support.

This study examines how parents of family and nonfamily abducted children cope with stress due to the disappearance of their child. The results show that all parents experience distress, regardless of whether it was a family or nonfamily abduction. Associated with parental distress are factors such as prior family stress, age of the child, recovery status of the child, and measures of social su...

Child centered literacy orientation: a form of social capital?

OBJECTIVE To describe the home literacy environment and to identify financial, human, and social capital variables associated with the presence or lack of Child Centered Literacy Orientation (CCLO) in families with young children who regularly attend pediatric primary care clinics. DESIGN Cross-sectional case-control analysis of structured parent interviews conducted in two hospital-based and...