PSY311H5 Chapter Notes -Virginity Pledge, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Abecedarian Early Intervention Project
Document Summary
Input and outcome: getting what you pay for. Real-world application: early intervention with children in poverty. Research up close: the florida child care quality improvement study. More teens are having sex than ever before. Insights from extremes: suggestive interrogations and legal policy. Policy makers increasingly use scientific information as one basis for policies: programs may be focused on prevention or intervention. Primary prevention policies alter social and environmental conditions to reduce the likelihood that social problems will develop. Secondary prevention policies provide services for at-risk groups. Policy-based interventions involve treating children and families who have already been identified as having problems. Poverty: poor parents generally have limited power, feel helpless and insecure, have little choice of. Child care: more than two thirds of children in the united states are cared for by someone other than their parents partly because of maternal employment and geographic mobility. In choosing child care, parents balance cost, convenience, and quality.
