Settings and Issues

Abstract

First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Settings -- Toward Healthy Families -- Table of Contents -- Healthy Families and Health Determinants: Key Conclusions from the research Literature -- Definitional Conundrums and Old Reruns -- The Triple Helix Framework of Healthy Families -- Genetic Inheritance/Predisposition and Family -- Life Chances: Surviving and Thriving -- Social Resources and Healthy Families -- Social Support: The BIG Effect -- Access to Health through Family -- Chains, Effects, and Amplification -- Policies, Programs, Projects, and Natural Experiments: Lessons on What Works and What Does not -- Summary of Success Stories -- Families as Actors as Well as Subjects: Lessons from History -- Families and Children "at Promise" -- Family Matters and the Family Matters Program -- Brighter Futures and Running in Place -- Miracle at Duke and Water -- Beyond Health Promotion: Is Family and Community ActionEnough? -- Policy Implications-Principles to Guide Government Action -- Policy Implications -- Principles to Guide Government Action for Healthy Families -- Strategic Targets That Require Policy Action -- Bibliography -- Schools, Mental Health and Life Quality -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Objectives -- School Efects on Student Outcomes -- Definitions-Cognitive and Noncognitive Domains of Child Functioning -- Relationship between Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes -- The Importance of Prevention -- Research Design Isues -- Study Design -- Choice of Student Outcomes and School Variables -- Sample of Schools Studied -- School Effects Defined as Progress over Time -- School Effects Studies -- Overview -- Effective Schools Model -- Review of Exemplary Studies -- Key Conclusions -- Stories and Lessons Learned -- Criteria for Selection of Stories -- Story Descriptors -- Five Stories -- Lessons Learned -- Policy Implications.