Vol 20, No 3 (2011)
When children show emotional or behavioral problems, many are quick to blame families. But parents are the primary life span experts on the lives of their children. Thom Garfat guest edits this issue which abandons the deficit view to focus on strengths in families. Articles tap the practice wisdom of those who daily confront the challenge of dealing with children in conflict.
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Culture and Development
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Circle of Courage Infusion into the Alberta Indigenous Games 2011
Dawn Marie Marchand
Thousands of indigenous people from across North America came to the Enoch Cree Nation for the Alberta Indigenous Games, six days of sport, education, and cultural awakening. The theme “Reclaiming Our Youth” celebrated the Circle of Courage philosophy for developing healthy children, families, and communities.
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Life Space Crisis Intervention
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Brotherly Love? The Manipulation of Body Boundaries
Benjamin Beck
A street-wise boy is unaware that his younger brother has been using clever manipulation to get him into trouble.
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Treatment and Family
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Families as Life Span Experts
Larry K. Brendtro, Martin L. Mitchell
Parents are the best source of data on their children but are seldom enlisted as full team members in the search for solutions. Too often, schools have an uneasy relationship with parents, and residential programs try to keep them at bay. Practical guidelines are provided for building partnerships with families.
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Parents in Prison: Justice Literacy and Public Policy
Laura Brookes, Daphne Baille
Illinois has been a leader in mobilizing communities to transform justice policies that damage the futures of children and families, particularly those from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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The National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Corey Brown
Families whose children and youth face emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges have a powerful voice in this national network of family-run organizations.
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Resiliency and Aggression Replacement Training with Families
Robert Calame, Kimberlee Parker, Mark Amendola, Robert Oliver
It is necessary as change agents that we align with the family and provide the necessary skill and support for protection and development of their children.
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Bringing Young Carers Out of the Shadows
Grant Charles
Today, many young persons are taking on adult responsibilities normally filled by the parent. How do we support and develop strengths in these youth and families?
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Keeping the Care in Secure Care
James Cunningham, Terry Hood
Secure settings often compromise goals of care when safety concerns produce a coercive, depersonalized environment. Such programs can be re-designed to meet developmental needs, including maintaining close bonds with the family.
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Parental Monitoring or an Invasion of Privacy?
Robert Foltz
Technology is providing more ways for parents to keep tabs on their kids. Does this surveillance foster positive behavior or fuel distrust?
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Fresh Thinking About Families: A View from Residential Care
Thom Garfat
All professionals serving youth are challenged to engage with their families. The movement to family-focused residential care is transforming our thinking about families.
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Gaining Empowerment Allows Results [G.E.A.R.]
G.E.A.R. Parent Network
Through parent-to-parent sharing of experiences and knowledge, the G.E.A.R. Parent Network empowers families to better meet their children’s needs. This article shares wisdom gained by families who are advocating for their special needs children.
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Counseling Families Using Principles of Re-EDucation
Lisa Shepard
Four strength-based Re-ED strategies are applied to strengthening families: trust, competence, self-control, and joy.
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Trauma-Informed Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)
William Steele, Caelan Kuban
The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC) and the Circle of Courage, programs of Starr Commonwealth Institute for Training, represent this integration of trauma-informed resilience-focused practices. Over the past twenty years each program has not only changed the lives of thousands of children and youth but also helped them grow and flourish
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Voices of Youth
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Resilience: One Family's Story
Megan Freado
The author was only 15 when she wrote her first article for this journal, the moving saga of losing her mother to cancer (Freado, 2008). Now she shares an inside view of resilience as seen across three generations of her family.
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