Objective: To review the literature on risk and protective factors as applied to children with
chronic and disabling conditions so as to assist the health care professional in developing …

In recent years, empowerment and resource orientation have become vital guidelines for
many of the sciences. For the field of deaf education, it is also highly important to look …

Previous studies have addressed the degree of correspondence between interparental
reports of children's behavior problems, but have not examined the discrepancies in these …

This study examined the impact of school-based, teacher-rated parental involvement on four
child outcomes: language development, early reading skills, and positive and negative …

Establishing healthy social-emotional development is a critical foundation for life success.
Competencies that are generally accepted as defining healthy social-emotional …

In this article, a family systems theoretical framework is described for understanding the
reciprocal relationships between chronic illness in a family member and the structure and …

EMOTIONAL/BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS of 238 deaf Dutch children ages 4–18 years were
studied. Parental reports indicated that 41% had emotional/behavioral problems, a rate …

In 1980, the first child in the world was implanted with the single-channel House cochlear
implant device (Eisenberg & House, 1982). Children who initially received cochlear implants …

The present study examines maternal and child adjustment as a result of the application of a
stress and coping model (Folkman, Schaefer, & Lazarus 1979) to factors associated with …

Objectives: To examine changes in family functioning from injury to 3 years after pediatric
traumatic brain injury; to determine factors most predictive of family outcomes at 3 years and …