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homing
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At risk youth
Multisystemic therapy Definition Multisystemic therapy (MST) is an intensive family- and community-based treatment program designed to make positive changes in the various social systems (home, school, community, peer relations) that contribute to the serious antisocial... Read more |
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Home Guard
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home page
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foster care
foster care generally, care of children on a full-time, temporary basis by persons other than their own parents. Also known as boarding-home care, foster care is intended to offer a supportive family environment to children whose natural parents cannot raise them because of the parents' physical or... Read more |
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Home Schooling
HOME SCHOOLING The term home schooling refers to the practice of parents educating a child at home, rather than in a conventional public or private school setting. These children would otherwise be enrolled in elementary or secondary school. The parent responsible for home schooling generally... Read more |
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home economics
home economics study of homemaking and the relation of the home to the community. Formerly limited to problems of food (nutrition and cookery), clothing, sewing, textiles, household equipment, housecleaning, housing, hygiene, and household economics, it later came to include many aspects of family... Read more |
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Parent participation (Education)
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION Although widespread support for parental involvement is reflected in current educational policies and practices, what this means is not always clear. Parental involvement includes a wide range of behaviors but generally refers to parents' and family members' use... Read more |
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Negativism
Negativism A tendency to resist complying with directions or suggestions. Negativism is a behavior characterized by the tendency to resist direction from others, and the refusal to comply with requests. Negativism appears and wanes at various stages of a person's development. Active... Read more |
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Territoriality
Territoriality A pattern of animal behavior, territoriality implies a fixed area (or territory) from which intruders are excluded by the owner through a combination of advertising, threatening, and attacking behaviors. It is important to distinguish between a territory and a... Read more |
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Family devalued by culture.(Editorial)
...grow up in a one-parent household are three...other antisocial behavior. NOW must believe...t spontaneously decide to let adolescent...Frazier.'' Single parents date and cohabit...I don't think parents get the fact that...is saying sex is OK and you should do...into almost every ... |
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CURFEW LAWS VIOLATE TEENAGERS' LEGAL RIGHTS.(Editorial)
...when. ``But it's OK; the curfew reduces...Realistically, any mischievous behavior that occurs at 2 a...all of them to their homes or a few designated activities...their responsibility to decide where they want to be...interferes with the rights of parents to supervise their own... |