Women's Recovery Services in Minnesota: Year 4 Findings

Women's Recovery Services (WRS) is an initiative of the Minnesota Department of Human Services Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division. Grantees across Minnesota provide treatment support and recovery services for pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders and their families. The evaluation includes process and outcome evaluations and a cost-benefit analysis.

Women's Recovery Services in Minnesota: Year 3 Findings

This report presents a description of the women and children served by Women's Recovery Services programs and outcomes for families during the third year of the five-year grant

Women's Recovery Services in Minnesota: Year Two Findings

Women's Recovery Services is an initiative of the Minnesota Department of Human Services Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division. Grantees across Minnesota provide treatment support and recovery services for pregnant and parenting women who have substance use disorders and their families. The evaluation, now in it's second round of grantees, includes process and outcome evaluations and a cost-benefit analysis. This report presents evaluation results from year two of the grant. It includes a description of the families served, services provided, and program outcomes

SEGMENTING NICHE GOAT-MEAT MARKETS

This research report provides an examination of the ratings of an important sensory attribute of chevon (goat meat) with that of beef and pork. Results from an analysis of variance of comparative ratings of the flavor of chevon and that of beef and pork suggest that selected demographic characteristics of U.S. consumers influenced the ratings of chevon'Â’s flavor with that of beef and pork. The findings indicate that Hispanics, blacks, and females should not be treated as homogenous niche markets. The results suggest that there are distinct subdivision preferences within and between these consumer partitions.Agribusiness,

Maternal Socialization of Children's Emotion Knowledge

The relations between family emotional expressiveness and children's emotion knowledge were examined. Participants were 258 3.5-year-old children whose emotional knowledge was assessed; mothers reported on their emotion socialization practices and mothers and children were observed during an emotion-eliciting book-reading task. It was hypothesized that positive family expressiveness would be positively related to children's emotion knowledge, whereas negative family expressiveness would have a curvilinear association which would be moderated by additional forms of emotion socialization (parental responses to children's negative emotions and parental explanations about emotions) and child gender. Results showed a curvilinear relation for positive expressiveness and emotion knowledge and no association for negative expressiveness. An interaction between positive expressiveness and negative expressiveness was significant for boys, suggesting that boys have higher emotion knowledge when positive expressiveness is high but only in homes where negative expressiveness is low. Parental responses to negative emotions and explanations of emotions were directly related to emotion knowledge, but the moderation hypotheses were not supported. Results are discussed in terms of implications for how parents can be most effective in teaching their children about emotions

Parent-child conflict style: associations with family stress and vulnerability

Recent evidence has suggested that conflict between parents and children is not always detrimental to children's well-being; parent-child conflict can be beneficial to children's problem-solving ability and social skills when it occurs in the context of a supportive parent-child relationship. The current study explored the idea that parent-child conflict and parent sensitivity are interrelated behaviors that create a pattern of interaction. Past research has also recognized that parent-child relationships are affected by multiple levels of context. Therefore, a second avenue of exploration in the current study was how stress and vulnerability in the family context was associated with the conflict styles that parents and children use. Results demonstrated that parent-child conflict and parent sensitivity behaviors can be categorized into three conflict styles. A positive style, demonstrated among mother-child and father-child pairs when children were 54 months old and in 1st grade, was characterized by high parent sensitivity and low parent-child conflict. A moderate style, characterized by average sensitivity and low-to-moderate conflict, and an abrasive style, characterized by low sensitivity and high conflict, were identified for both parents at 54 months and mother-child pairs at 1st grade. At 1st grade, some father-child pairs were also classified as either dynamic, characterized by high sensitivity and moderate-to-high conflict, or disengaged, characterized by low-to-moderate sensitivity and low-to-moderate conflict. Stress originating from the child's behavior tended to be more predictive of a more negative parent-child conflict style in preschool, whereas stress originating from the parent tended to be more predictive of a more negative conflict style in 1st grade. Generally, family stress was related to a more negative conflict style when parents' vulnerability to the negative effects of stress was also high. And finally, the accumulation of child-centered stress for mothers and parent-centered stress for fathers across the transition to elementary school was associated with a more negative parent-child conflict style at 1st grade

Family Stress and Parental Responses to Children’s Negative Emotions: Tests of the Spillover, Crossover, and Compensatory Hypotheses

The relations between 4 sources of family stress (marital dissatisfaction, home chaos, parental depressive symptoms, and job role dissatisfaction) and the emotion socialization practice of mothers’ and fathers’ responses to children’s negative emotions were examined. Participants included 101 couples with 7-year-old children. Dyadic analyses were conducted using the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model and relations were tested in terms of the spillover, crossover, and compensatory hypotheses. Results suggest that measures of family stress relate to supportive and nonsupportive parental responses, though many of these relations differ by parent gender. The results are discussed in terms of the 3 theoretical hypotheses, all of which are supported to some degree depending on the family stressor examined

The Iowa Homemaker vol.37, no.2

They Say it’s Love, Ann Baur, page 4 Marry in a College Chapel, Merna Borror, page 6 Learned by Heart, Beth Cummings Paschal, page 7 I’d Like to Know, Sandy Newman, page 8 Blueprint for Packing, Carolyn McIntyre, page 10 The Honeymoon, Reverie to Reality, Jackie Andre, page 11 Present Picker, Marilyn Jensen Nadler, page 12 An Electric Dinner, Ann Walters, page 14 Say Yes… To Entertaining, Rosemary McBride and Roma Walker, page 15 ABC’s of Money Management, Linda Nelson and Marie Budolfson, page 16 What’s in a Wedding Custom, Janice Furman, page 18 Plain Clothes Man? Ha!, Norma Scholes, page 22 Why All This Fuss Over Sex, Gail A. McClure, page 2

Casting Light on the Distinctive Contribution of Social Work in Multidisciplinary Teams for Older People

The current policy emphasis in adult social care in England is on promoting independence, preventing or delaying the need for more intensive support and the provision of personalised services. However, there is little evidence available on how social workers (SWs) identify and meet the complex needs of older service users in practice. In this article, we present findings from a study of innovative social work practice with older adults in England (2018–2019). We present five case studies of social care and integrated services in which SWs are integral team members. Twenty-one individuals participated in interviews; this included service managers and practitioners with social work backgrounds, and other professionals, including nurses and occupational therapists. Specific practices contributing to innovative service delivery included: the strong demonstration of social work values influencing the practice of multidisciplinary teams; positive risk management; importance of timing and ensuring continuity of relationships; and, the proactive application of legal knowledge to promote older people’s rights. While some of these features can be seen as returning to the ‘heart’ of social work, we argue that they are promising in forging new paths for social work with older people that turn away from more managerialist- and procedurally driven approaches