- By Dartington SRU
- Posted on Thursday 29th May, 2014
No longer lost in translation?
Evidence-based parenting and family intervention programmes are effective in improving parenting skills, parent-child relationships and long-term outcomes for children. However, the most convincingly tested programmes have been developed in the United States and other English-speaking countries, giving rise to scepticism about their suitability for use in other language and cultural contexts. In E…
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- Posted on Thursday 29th May, 2014
The problems of analysing whether intervention works
Delinquent behaviour is deeply ingrained in the lives of many young people and no method has been found to be especially effective, even though very contrasting approaches have been advocated and tried.One initiative adopted in England has been Multi-dimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), which was developed in the 1980s by the Oregon Social Learning Center, US. It offers foster care…
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- Posted on Thursday 29th May, 2014
Early child education: the economic case for investment
Investment in early education for disadvantaged children is one policy decision for which a moral argument can be made. Another perspective comes from economists, such as James Heckman, who focus on how such investments can increase equity and are good for the overall economy.In an important report published in 2011 on the value of early childhood education, James Heckman explores how governments…
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