Children, Youth, and Families
Subtitle: The Action-Research Relationship
By: edited by Robert N. Rapoport.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Cambridge, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521301435
Subjects: Child welfare; United States; Psychology; Services For The Family; Politics / Current Events; Social policy; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Developmental - Child; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology; United States--Social policy; Evaluation research (Social ac; Action research; Evaluation research (Social action programs); Family policy; Research
First sentence: This book is about the interplay between research and action in programs aiming to benefit children, youth, and families.
Table of contents: title: 1
label: 1. Research and Action, by Robert N. Rapoport; title: 26
label: 2. Education: Improving Practice through Increasing Understanding, by Barbara Maughan and Michael Rutter; title: 50
label: 3. Youth Employment: Managing Tensions in Collaborative Research, by Richard H. Price and Anna Celeste Burke; title: 73
label: 4. Juvenile Justice: Research and Action, by Leslie T. Wilkins; title: 101
label: 5. Personal Social Service and Income Transfer Experiments: The Research and Action Connections, by Alfred J. Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman; title: 126
label: 6. Family Dynamics: Strengthening Families through Action-Research, by Hamilton I. McCubbin, David H. Olson, and Shirley L. Zimmerman; title: 166
label: 7. Family Support Systems: An Ecological Approach to Child Development, by Edward Zigler and Heather Weiss; title: 206
label: 8. Child Health: Research in Action, by I. Barry Pless and Robert J. Haggerty; title: 236
label: 9. Community Mental Health: Developments in the United States, by Gerald L. Klerman; title: 266
label: 10. Reconsidering Action-Research, by Robert N. Rapoport