The principle of parent-professional collaboration in responding to the needs of seriously emotionally disturbed children has been articulated in both policy and program guidelines. Research suggests that parents have not yet been integrated into the system of care for their children. This article reviews parents' concerns about their interactions with professionals and analyzes factors that may impede an improved relationship between the two groups. It suggests that a feminist/empowerment conceptualization of practice with parents of seriously emotionally disturbed children may be conducive to the attainment of full parent involvement in the system of care.
According to recent studies, large numbers of children and adolescents with serious emotional or behavioral disorders receive either no mental health treatment or treatment inappropriate to their needs. In this article the authors examine the problem of unnecessary hospitalization and the inadequacy of community‐based systems. They discuss the barriers that impede improved mental health service systems for children and their families and present the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) “system of care” model as an alternative. Last, counseling and development's role in promoting and fostering positive changes in the mental health system serving children and adolescents is discussed.
Arguments regarding sexuality and sexual expression have been central issues in feminist theory. This article explores three opposing feminist models for interpreting sexual imagery—the radical feminist, the libertarian feminist, and the socialist feminist-the conceptions of sexuality and representation on which each is based, and the resulting social policy positions regarding pornography. It analyzes the commonalities, differences, strengths, and weaknesses of each perspective and the corresponding policy argument and discusses the divisiveness of the feminist debates on pornography.
Reproductive freedom, including legal access to abortion, feminists insist, is a fundamental health issue for women. However, it is also the issue that has provoked the most opposition to the feminist struggle. The polarized debate epitomized in the abortion conflict, the author contends, is at least partly embedded in the nature and form of the discourse about abortion, which inadequately conceptualizes both pregnancy and women's decisions regarding unwanted pregnancy. Gilligan's paradigm of moral voices is used to explore the possibility of transforming this discourse.
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