The American Association of Pediatricians (AAP), in collaboration with the Council for Children with Disabilities and the Council on School Health, recommends that physicians learn special education law and practices in order to increase their ability to work with schools to support children with
Collaboration between schools, families, and physicians is thought to result in better care and outcomes for children with disabilities; however, several barriers prevent physicians from providing collaborative care.
This study explores variables that influence worry and parent contact among senior military officers who face frequent moves, restricted housing, and overseas assignments, and who have been geographically separated from their parents most of their adult lives.
Service members who live far away from their aging parents may have high levels of worry about their parents health and well-being, especially if military duties make in-person contact rare.
This qualitative study was aimed at developing theory about the process underlying the development of responsibility grounded in accounts of youth who reported experiencing this change.
The process underlying youth's development of responsibility was examined through an in-depth qualitative study.
We present the victim rates and severity of child maltreatment in US Army families by the sex of the child and parent from 1990Ð2004. Neglect rates decreased from a high point in 1991 to a low in 2000, but by 2004 the rates had increased to about the 1991 level.
The victim rates and severity of child maltreatment in U.S. Army families by the sex of the child and parent from 1990-2004 were presented. Data were drawn from the Army Central Registry (ACR), which is a complete list of all substantiated child maltreatment incidents.
Problem: Various demographic and familial risk factors have been linked to runaway behavior. To date, there has not been a systematic investigation of the impact of size of community on runaway behavior.
Many demographic and familial risk factors are related to adolescent runaway behaviors. By interviewing 602 adolescents living on the street, the study examined the relations among family abuse, community size, runaway behaviors, and street victimization.