Children Today articles from July 1985

Children Today archives from July 1985

Perspectives on children and weight.
July 1, 1985... Children are receiving contradictory messages about fatness and thinness from parents, health professionals and society, resulting in frustration for children and a variety of eating disorders, say Eileen B. Peck and Helen D. Ullrich in their...

Talk to me: a language guide for parents of blind children.
July 1, 1985... Ideas and concrete suggestions to help parents of visually impaired children understand and communicate with their child, especially during the first two years of life, are discussed in the pamphlet, Talk to Me: A Language Guide for Parents...

A blueprint for survival; in operating a primary prevention program.(Project Pride, a drug abuse prevention program)
July 1, 1985... In one classroom, an 11-year-old girl blurts out that she is afraid to drive with her mother because her mother is drunk most of the time. In anoterh classroom, 12 7th-graders are busily writing three things they like about each classmate in...

Sex education for patents; what are the benefits.
July 1, 1985... During a series of four workshops for parents on communicating about sexuality with their children, there was one couple who always sat in the back and contributed little to the discussion. At the end of the last session, on their way out,...

Teenage mothers; school-based child care puts diploma in reach.
July 1, 1985... This busy room is not, however, a television studio but a classroom converted into an Infant Care Center at Groveton High School in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. Here teenage mothers from high schools throughout the county leave their...

Hospital and home; bridging the gap between. (benefits of nurses follow-up visits to new mothers at home)
July 1, 1985... Among recent dramatic changes in obstetrics is the decline in the length of a mother's stay in the hospital after giving birth. A generation ago a stay of seven days was common; today it has decreased to 48 hours or less after a vaginal...

Inhalant abuse: an emerging problem among Mexican American adolescents.
July 1, 1985... It is only within the last decade that the extend and diversity of inhalant abuse among adolescents has been investigated. Although there is a paucity of hard epidemilogic data on the prevalence of inhalant abuse, there is considerable...

Working with families who donate organs and tissues. (includes related article on networks for the transplantation efforts)
July 1, 1985... All of the patients and families with whom I work are coping with immediate death. Not an impending death, but one that has already occurred. They are never celebrating as someone would after a routine childbirth or a successful surgery....

Migrant workers clinic; nurses provide more than health care.
July 1, 1985... The clinic, a renovated 2-story brick building made as attractive and inviting as possible, is located on the property of a county-operated nursing home on the outskirts of a small, rural community. The clinic is sponsored by the Niagara...

Clinical management of child abuse and neglect.
July 1, 1985... Although dental professionals diagnose and treat a variety of oral and general health problems on a daily basis, the possibility that such problems may result from child abuse and neglect is too often overlooked. Clinical Management of Child...

Reeducating troubled youth.
July 1, 1985... This book ties together the concepts that education is therapeutic and that therapy is educational. The context of both of these is residential child care with a comprehensive approach and a primary focus on education. The authors...

Children's literature awards and winners.
July 1, 1985... The supplement to the first edition of Children's Literature Awards and Winners updates information (through May 1984) on awards granted in English-speaking countries for excellence in children's literature. Thirty-two new awards and their...

Family kaleidoscope.
July 1, 1985... Family therapy has always been closely associated with the theater. Not only have many of its practitioners been involved in the theatrical world but the procedures of family work inherently have a high dramatic quality. However, at...