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E F Zigler

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PubMed1998

Day care and early childhood settings. Fostering mental health in young children.

The authors, with research supporting the relationship between experience and the developing brain, envision a new and innovative model of child care in which principles of child development and mental health play an integral role. The School of the Twenty-first Century, although housed in existing school buildings, will be far more than a traditional 8:00 AM-to-3:00 PM educational facility. It will become a hub of child and family life in the community and provide institutional and outreach services for children from birth to 12 years of age. Active developmental and mental health programs that provide education for parents, primary caretakers, and other providers are central to the model. These programs will include preventive, evaluative, and treatment services for children. The child psychiatrist is viewed as an important member of the mental health team, who helps identify, assess, and treat children with developmental and psychiatric difficulties.

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PubMed1997

Supporting children and families in the schools: the school of the 21st century.

The School of the 21st Century, a model designed to address the soaring need for child care, is housed in an institution already present in every neighborhood-the public school. Its potential to serve as a primary prevention program, through provision of child-care and family-support services for children from birth through age 12, is described. Examples of program effectiveness are offered, and the additional benefits of integration with related programs are outlined.

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PubMed1994

Machismo in two cultures: relation to punitive child-rearing practices.

The relationship of culture, personality traits, and punitive child-rearing practices to machismo was examined in 40 Guyanese and 40 Caucasian parents with children aged four to 12 years. Guyanese parents were found to adhere more strongly to machista attitudes and beliefs and to employ controlling, authoritarian, and punitive child-rearing techniques more often than did Caucasian parents.

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PubMed1994

Psychological correlates of help-seeking attitudes among children and adolescents.

A self-report measure of attitudes about seeking help from adults for psychosocial problems was administered to approximately 200 children and adolescents. More negative help-seeking attitudes were associated with male gender, adolescence, depressive symptomotology, and lower self-efficacy. Implications for effective delivery of mental health services to at-risk youth are discussed.

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PubMed1989

Addressing the nation's child care crisis: the school of the twenty-first century.

With nearly three-quarters of the nation's mothers in the work force, the issue of child care in America has reached crisis proportions. Despite attempts to deal with the issue over the past two decades, the United States remains without a national policy. This paper outlines the dimensions of the crisis and uses the established concept of the community school as the model for a plan that would provide high quality child care on a universal basis.

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Funding child care and public education.

Ensuring the availability of high-quality, affordable child care to all families who need it is a goal of national importance. The authors suggest that a comprehensive financing and service delivery system for child care is needed to achieve this goal, and the system should ideally be grounded in an existing institution, already present in every community--the public school. The linkage of child care with the public education system would eliminate the false distinction between child care and education, and would create a universally accessible system of child care services for children. The School of the 21st Century is an example of such a system. Initially conceptualized by Zigler, it has now been implemented in 400 schools across 13 states, with the leadership and direction of Finn-Stevenson. This article describes how school districts that have implemented the program employ a mixture of parent fees and local, state, federal, and private dollars to fund it, and then proposes an ideal financing model for the program. In the ideal model, the same mix of funding sources would be retained, but a per-pupil expenditure of about $9,000 per year is advocated to deliver child care and other social services to three- and four-year-olds. Funds for initial start-up could be derived from reallocation of existing dollars, especially state prekindergarten programs, but eventually new funds would be needed to support ongoing operations.

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