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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-aging/active-and-successful-aging-europe-role-relational-resilience
by Giovanna Gianesini, Ph.D., social psychologist and postdoctoral researcher, Alma Mater Studiorum University, Bologna, Italy
A focus on relational competence, developmental relationships, psychosocial support, and resilience offers a relational and developmental perspective on aging.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-aging/caregiving-and-early-life-trauma-experiences-family-caregivers-
by Keith A. Anderson, The Ohio State University, College of Social Work
In this article, we turn our attention to a very special caregiving situation—family caregiving to aging survivors of trauma, specifically the Holocaust.
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-aging/caregiving-just-what-families-do-challenges-aging-families-and-
by Sara Honn Qualls, Kraemer Family Professor of Aging Studies, Professor of Psychology and Director, Gerontology Center, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Changes in the health of an older adult can be a deal changer.
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-aging/economic-status-older-adults-america-living-new-normal
by Martie Gillen, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Florida; Karen A. Zurlo, Ph.D., assistant professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and Hyungsoo Kim, associate professor, University of Kentucky
The projected growth in the number of older adults is unprecedented in the history of the United States.
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Family Resource Management
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-aging/intimate-relationships-older-women-community-response-violence
by Karen A. Roberto, Ph.D., Director, Center for Gerontology, Virginia Tech
National surveys suggest that intimate partner violence affects nearly one third of women aged 50 and older each year.
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-aging/meaning-early-memory-loss-families
by Rosemary Blieszner, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center for Gerontology, Virginia Tech
Many studies have assessed neurological and cognitive changes associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-aging/who-will-take-care-mom-and-dad-sibling-set-composition-and-care
by Twyla J. Hill, Ph.D., professor of sociology, Wichita State University; and Stacy Tiemeyer, M.A., University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Almost all previous research on siblings and caregiving division of labor is qualitative.
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/cfle-network/current-issue/book-review-inside-dementia-epidemic
Reviewed by Eva M. Starner, Ph.D., CFLE
This book is a wonderful addition to the growing library of literature on dementia, primarily because it is a memoir.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/cfle-network/current-issue/book-review-review-three-family-and-patient-oriented-books-aging-and-care
Reviewed by Marcie Parker, Ph.D., CFLE
This book is well-written, clear, well laid out, and practical.
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/cfle-network/current-issue/cfle-context-hospice-care-guiding-families-through-grief-and-loss
by Kathleen Helgeson, M.A., CFLE
Deeply affected by the loss of both my parents through illness when I was a young mom, I became increasingly interested in hospice care.
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-families-and-therapy/closure-why-it-s-myth
by Pauline Boss, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota
There is a second generation of scholars testing the theory of ambiguous loss across cultures and adapting the measurements for new populations worldwide.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
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/cfle-network/current-issue/book-review-friends-forever-how-girls-and-women-forge-lasting-relationshi
Reviewed by Connie Schulz, MS, CFLE
Friends Forever accomplishes several goals from the book's chronicle of women's friendships through its guide to friendship skills.
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by Char Kamper, M.A., CFLE
It has been a bit of a winding route becoming involved with relationship education for adolescents.
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http://datacenter.kidscount.org/publications/databook/2013#downloadbook
The 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides a detailed picture of how children are faring in the United States.
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Family Law and Public Policy
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http://futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/journals/journal_details/index.xml?journalid=79
The Princeton-Brookings Future of Children's spring 2013 journal is on the subject of Postsecondary Education in the United States.
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Family Resource Management
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-family-demography/children-and-media-social-change-and-its-consequenc
by Sandra Hofferth and Ui Jeong Moon, University of Maryland, Maryland Population Research Center
The development of new technologies has transformed the ways families live and work. This transformation has been most notable for children and adolescents.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-family-demography/german-family-panel-pairfam-new-data-resource-famil
by Bernhard Nauck, Ph.D., professor, Institute of Sociology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany; and Daniel Fuss, Ph.D., Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
The German Family Panel pairfam is a comprehensive panel survey providing an extended empirical basis for advances in family research.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/cfle-network/current-issue/book-review-developmental-science-advanced-text-6th-edition
Reviewed by Elise Murowchick, Ph.D., CFLE
This book may lead one down the developmental science path, at least one that covers the first couple decades of life, to important destinations.
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-global-families/global-families-europe
by Giovanna Gianesini, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Center for Family Studies (CIRF), University of Padova, Italy; marriage and family counselor, Ethica Counseling Center; ESFR Newsletter co-editor
The welfare state in many European countries is calling for a social debate on both social policy orientations and policy culture.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Law and Public Policy
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-global-families/accordion-family
by Katherine Newman, Ph.D., James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
Why should government officials care where adult children make their homes? Because those private choices have serious public consequences.
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http://www.childtrends.org/young-children-and-their-complex-families-facing-some-uncomfortable-facts/
Recent estimates by Child Trends show that 41 percent of all births in 2009 were to unmarried couples, roughly half to cohabiting couples.
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http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2013/download
The Human Development Report was launched in 1990 to put people at the center of development, going beyond income to assess people's long-term well-being.
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Family Health
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http://www.srcd.org/sites/default/files/documents/spr_264_final_2.pdf
Research suggests that schools should integrate social and emotional learning skills into daily work with students and daily school routines.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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