PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Strongest, Family Caregivers, Health Promotion
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Policy and program eligibility, effectiveness, efficiency, design, implementation, and. Eligibility requirements for policies such as schip and eitc may unintentionally discourage marriage between cohabiting partners: policy and program effectiveness. Welfare reform demonstration projects that invested in parental employment, particularly among fragile families, improved children"s school performance and social development: policy and program efficiency. Evidence shows that engaging parents in early childhood education programs, or addressing the mother-father relationship in fatherhood programs, is more effective than individual approaches: policy and program implementation. Family-centered approaches are pivotal to the effectiveness of program implementation across a range of social services and programs: policy and program targets of interest. Studies have shown that investments in early childhood programs are beneficial to children, families, and society. Effective programs have the shared characteristic of including a family engagement component: parent education. Programs may focus on improving parenting (e. g. , in the u. k. ) or promoting marriage, relationship quality, and father involvement (e. g. , in the u. s. ).
