Sandra T Azar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra T Azar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra T |
| FAMILY NAME | Azar |
| SIGNATURE | AZAR S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Identifying gaps in technology-based intervention prevention programs and ways to foster learning and engagement with parents using serious games
Some researchers have implemented technologies to help overcome the barriers to reducing childhood injuries. Many of these technology-based injury prevention programs rely on individually tailored, written feedback to help improve parents’ knowledge of home safety. Serious game technologies might further aid in developing injury prevention programs that are adaptive to the unique characteristics of parents. The purpose of this paper is to review …
Home safety hero
How Does the Neighborhood “Come through the Door?” Concentrated Disadvantage, Residential Instability, and the Home Environment for Preschoolers
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with heightened risk for poor school readiness and health outcomes in early childhood, and the home environment is thought to be a primary mechanism by which neighborhood context impacts preschoolers. This study examined the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood residential instability on the home physical environment and home learning environment for preschoolers i…
Latent classes of older foster youth
Active war in Sri Lanka
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in response to active war is understudied among Sinhalese children in Sri Lanka. We investigated PTSD symptom severity in children using child (n = 60) and mother (n = 60) reports; child-reported war exposure and coping; as well as self-reported maternal PTSD symptom severity. The study addressed active war in 2 rural locations (acute and chronic community war exposure). Child-reports were significantly greate…
Practices Changes in the Child Protection System to Address the Needs of Parents With Cognitive Disabilities
Parents with cognitive disabilities (PCD) are over-represented in the child protection system. However, the current state of the child protection system is not well prepared for working with them. Biases that exist against their parenting, the need for accommodations in assessment and intervention practices, and specific training in staff and cross systems barriers need to be addressed. This paper argues for changes that will ensure such parents …
The Impact of Extreme Emotional Distance in the Mother-Child Relationship on the Offspring’s Future Risk of Maltreatment Perpetration
Parental Cognitive Disabilities and Child Protection Services
Theories regarding the social cognitive origins of parenting risk have recently emerged. This work not only has implications for the nature of interventions with parents, but also for the approaches taken by the social service systems that work with them. This paper reviews the evidence that there is a significant number of parents with cognitive disabilities within child protection caseloads and outlines the types of human capacity building and …
Meridians Roundtable on Peace
Discussions on peace often assume there is agreement about how the term peace is to be defined, rarely reflect on its meaning in the context of economics, and, when its connotations are gendered, this is done through the lens of women as essentially peaceful beings. In order to have a wider discussion about peace Meridians assembled a Roundtable, during the Women Waging Peace conference, at Harvard University in November 2000. The women who parti…
Blaming the helpers
The nature and origins of the current tendency toward disparaging parents and teachers of the urban poor are examined. It is suggested that the influence of parents and teachers must be understood in the context of multiple intervening variables. Several explanations are offered for the phenomenon of blame, including the fact that women constitute the great majority of teachers and are often the primary agents of parenting
Child age, parent and child gender, and domain differences in parents’ attributions and responses to children’s outcomes
Parents and children
(1997). 10. Parents and children: representations of family understanding parents’ and teachers’ internal working models of their roles in children's lives. Journal of Education Policy: Vol. 12, No. 1-2, pp. 79-88
Cognitive Restructuring of Professionals' Schema Regarding Women Parenting in Povery
Employing a cognitive theory used to explain maladaptive and abusive transactions within family systems, this article describes the potential for bias in professionals working with disadvantaged mother around parenting issues. Societal and professionals' working models of women parenting in poverty are identified and their potential to intrude negatively on therapeutic transactions described. A process of cognitive restructuring for professionals…
Treatment Programs for Family Violence
Similar issues and similar interventions appear in treatment programs for child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, and woman abuse. Programs in all three of these areas make use of crisis lines, temporary shelter for victims, and professionally guided self-help groups. A wide variety of treatment orientations are used. However, common to all areas is a controversy over whether to use a family systems approach or an individual approach. Critics o…
How Does the Neighborhood “Come through the Door?” Concentrated Disadvantage, Residential Instability, and the Home Environment for Preschoolers
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with heightened risk for poor school readiness and health outcomes in early childhood, and the home environment is thought to be a primary mechanism by which neighborhood context impacts preschoolers. This study examined the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood residential instability on the home physical environment and home learning environment for preschoolers i…
Practices Changes in the Child Protection System to Address the Needs of Parents With Cognitive Disabilities
Parents with cognitive disabilities (PCD) are over-represented in the child protection system. However, the current state of the child protection system is not well prepared for working with them. Biases that exist against their parenting, the need for accommodations in assessment and intervention practices, and specific training in staff and cross systems barriers need to be addressed. This paper argues for changes that will ensure such parents …
Parental Cognitive Disabilities and Child Protection Services
Theories regarding the social cognitive origins of parenting risk have recently emerged. This work not only has implications for the nature of interventions with parents, but also for the approaches taken by the social service systems that work with them. This paper reviews the evidence that there is a significant number of parents with cognitive disabilities within child protection caseloads and outlines the types of human capacity building and …
Child age, parent and child gender, and domain differences in parents’ attributions and responses to children’s outcomes
Latent classes of older foster youth
The Impact of Extreme Emotional Distance in the Mother-Child Relationship on the Offspring’s Future Risk of Maltreatment Perpetration
Cognitive Restructuring of Professionals' Schema Regarding Women Parenting in Povery
Employing a cognitive theory used to explain maladaptive and abusive transactions within family systems, this article describes the potential for bias in professionals working with disadvantaged mother around parenting issues. Societal and professionals' working models of women parenting in poverty are identified and their potential to intrude negatively on therapeutic transactions described. A process of cognitive restructuring for professionals…
Treatment Programs for Family Violence
Similar issues and similar interventions appear in treatment programs for child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, and woman abuse. Programs in all three of these areas make use of crisis lines, temporary shelter for victims, and professionally guided self-help groups. A wide variety of treatment orientations are used. However, common to all areas is a controversy over whether to use a family systems approach or an individual approach. Critics o…
Cognitive Restructuring of Professionals' Schema Regarding Women Parenting in Povery
Employing a cognitive theory used to explain maladaptive and abusive transactions within family systems, this article describes the potential for bias in professionals working with disadvantaged mother around parenting issues. Societal and professionals' working models of women parenting in poverty are identified and their potential to intrude negatively on therapeutic transactions described. A process of cognitive restructuring for professionals…
Child age, parent and child gender, and domain differences in parents’ attributions and responses to children’s outcomes
Parents and children
(1997). 10. Parents and children: representations of family understanding parents’ and teachers’ internal working models of their roles in children's lives. Journal of Education Policy: Vol. 12, No. 1-2, pp. 79-88
Blaming the helpers
The nature and origins of the current tendency toward disparaging parents and teachers of the urban poor are examined. It is suggested that the influence of parents and teachers must be understood in the context of multiple intervening variables. Several explanations are offered for the phenomenon of blame, including the fact that women constitute the great majority of teachers and are often the primary agents of parenting
Meridians Roundtable on Peace
Discussions on peace often assume there is agreement about how the term peace is to be defined, rarely reflect on its meaning in the context of economics, and, when its connotations are gendered, this is done through the lens of women as essentially peaceful beings. In order to have a wider discussion about peace Meridians assembled a Roundtable, during the Women Waging Peace conference, at Harvard University in November 2000. The women who parti…
Parental Cognitive Disabilities and Child Protection Services
Theories regarding the social cognitive origins of parenting risk have recently emerged. This work not only has implications for the nature of interventions with parents, but also for the approaches taken by the social service systems that work with them. This paper reviews the evidence that there is a significant number of parents with cognitive disabilities within child protection caseloads and outlines the types of human capacity building and …
The Impact of Extreme Emotional Distance in the Mother-Child Relationship on the Offspring’s Future Risk of Maltreatment Perpetration
Practices Changes in the Child Protection System to Address the Needs of Parents With Cognitive Disabilities
Parents with cognitive disabilities (PCD) are over-represented in the child protection system. However, the current state of the child protection system is not well prepared for working with them. Biases that exist against their parenting, the need for accommodations in assessment and intervention practices, and specific training in staff and cross systems barriers need to be addressed. This paper argues for changes that will ensure such parents …
Active war in Sri Lanka
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in response to active war is understudied among Sinhalese children in Sri Lanka. We investigated PTSD symptom severity in children using child (n = 60) and mother (n = 60) reports; child-reported war exposure and coping; as well as self-reported maternal PTSD symptom severity. The study addressed active war in 2 rural locations (acute and chronic community war exposure). Child-reports were significantly greate…
Latent classes of older foster youth
How Does the Neighborhood “Come through the Door?” Concentrated Disadvantage, Residential Instability, and the Home Environment for Preschoolers
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with heightened risk for poor school readiness and health outcomes in early childhood, and the home environment is thought to be a primary mechanism by which neighborhood context impacts preschoolers. This study examined the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood residential instability on the home physical environment and home learning environment for preschoolers i…
Home safety hero
Identifying gaps in technology-based intervention prevention programs and ways to foster learning and engagement with parents using serious games
Some researchers have implemented technologies to help overcome the barriers to reducing childhood injuries. Many of these technology-based injury prevention programs rely on individually tailored, written feedback to help improve parents’ knowledge of home safety. Serious game technologies might further aid in developing injury prevention programs that are adaptive to the unique characteristics of parents. The purpose of this paper is to review …
Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works)