Carl J Dunst
Biographic Data
| ID | 5761939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl J Dunst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunst |
| SIGNATURE | DUNST C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3857-9869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Governmental Policies on Rehabilitation Services and Physical Medicine in Jordan
Background : Although the COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of governmental policies and regulations around the world, the effect of these policies on access to and provision of rehabilitation services has not been examined, especially in low and middle- income countries. Aims : The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of governmental policies and procedures on the number of patients who accessed rehabilitation services in the public s…
Strengthening family capacity to provide young children everyday natural learning opportunities
A capacity-building approach to natural learning environment intervention practices was the focus of the study. Capacity-building early childhood intervention promotes parents’ or other caregivers’ skills, abilities, and confidence to provide children development-enhancing learning opportunities. Natural environment practices use everyday experiences, events, and places as sources of child learning opportunities that promote child competencies. T…
Influence of the Interests of Children with Autism on Everyday Learning Opportunities
Findings from a pilot study investigating the influence of the interests of young children with autism on parents' provision of everyday informal child learning opportunities are described. 17 children (13 boys, 4 girls) were divided into two groups that received everyday learning opportunities of Low interest and High interest, based on parents' bi-weekly ratings of the interestingness of the opportunities to the children, using an investigator-…
Influence of the Interests of Children With Autism on Everyday Learning Opportunities 1,2
Findings from a pilot study investigating the influence of the interests of young children with autism on parents' provision of everyday informal child learning opportunities are described. 17 children (13 boys, 4 girls) were divided into two groups that received everyday learning opportunities of Low interest and High interest, based on parents' bi-weekly ratings of the interestingness of the opportunities to the children, using an investigator-…
Continuity of Parental Behavioural Ratings of Children Adopted from China and Parenting Competence, Confidence and Enjoyment
Mary Beth Bruder, Carl J Dunst, Cristina Mogro-Wilson and Tony Xing Tan used an analytic procedure called structural equation modelling (SEM) to evaluate the effects of adoption and post-adoption child behaviour measures on parents' self-judgements of their parenting competence, confidence and enjoyment. SEM is a statistical procedure for investigating complex relationships among multiple variables simultaneously. The study participants were 314 …
Preschool Children's Emerging Participation in Leisure and Recreation Activities
Parents (n = 1509) of young children birth to 6 years of age were surveyed about their children's participation in 30 leisure and recreation community activities. Analyses focused on similarities and differences according to type of activity (leisure vs. recreation), child age, and child developmental condition (children with vs. children without disabilities or delays). Results showed that there were age-related increases in the patterns of part…
Meta‐analysis of family‐centered helpgiving practices research
A meta‐analysis of 47 studies investigating the relationship between family‐centered helpgiving practices and parent, family, and child behavior and functioning is reported. The studies included more than 11,000 participants from seven different countries. Data analysis was guided by a practice‐based theory of family‐centered helpgiving that hypothesized direct effects of relational and participatory helpgiving practices on self‐efficacy beliefs …
University Faculty Preparation of Students in Using Natural Environment Practices with Young Children
155 university faculty teaching students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language pathology, early childhood special education, or multidisciplinary studies programs were surveyed to assess how the students were taught how to use everyday family and community activities as natural learning opportunities for young children. Analysis showed that the faculty provided very little training in using community activity settings as …
Young Children's Natural Learning Environments
1,000 parents of infants and toddlers enrolled in early childhood intervention programs were surveyed about the number of learning opportunities provided their preschool children using different approaches to early intervention. Findings showed that more learning opportunities were reported when participation in everyday activity settings was conceptualized as a type of intervention rather than as settings for professionals to conduct their inter…
Parents' and Practitioners' Perspectives of Young Children's Everyday Natural Learning Environments
Parents' views of natural learning environments were compared to those of practitioners having either considerable or little experience with the characteristics of everyday natural learning opportunities. 8 experienced practitioners' views were congruent with those of the parents, whereas the 8 inexperienced practitioners' views were incongruent with those of both parents and their experienced peers
Young Children's Participation in Everyday Family and Community Activity
Young Children's Participation in Everyday Family and Community Activity
Patterns of participation in everyday family and community activities are described for children from birth to 6 years of age. Parents or other primary caregivers completed a survey of either family life or community life as sources of children's learning opportunities and experiences. Rates of children's participation in 50 family activities and 50 community activities at different ages were identified and analyzed in terms of similarities and d…
Characteristics and consequences of help‐giving practices in contrasting human services programs
Relationships between human services program models and help‐giving practices, and between both program models and help‐giving practices and help‐seeker control appraisals were examined in a study of 107 low socioeconomic background families. Three kinds of human services agencies were included in the study, each of which differed in terms of their implicit and explicit assumptions about the families they served and the roles professionals and fa…
Measuring the Helpgiving Practices of Human Services Program Practitioners
The psychometric properties and utility of the Helpgiving Practices Scale are described. The scale includes 25 items which measure different kinds of helpgiving practices that have previously been found associated with positive recipient outcomes, including psychosocial functioning and self-efficacy appraisals. Item analysis, internal consistency reliability, factor analysis, criterion-related validity, and known-groups validity found the scale t…
Use of low structured observation for assessing communicative intents in young children
Thirty-six normally developing children (18 boys and 18 girls), evenly divided into three age groups from 13-30 months of age, were observed while playing with their mothers. Their communicative behaviours were recorded according to intent (comment, request, reject) and level (non-verbal, verbal-contextual and verbal-decon textual). Rejects occurred significantly less often than either comments or requests, which did not differ significantly, acr…
A social systems perspective of adolescent pregnancy
Social systems theory was used as a framework for examining the relationships among demographic characteristics (age, education level, marital status, social class, income), intrapersonal beliefs (self-esteem, locus-of-control, and parent attitudes), social support, and pregnancy, birth-related, and postpartum outcomes. The subjects were 21 teenage mothers who participated in a model-demonstration program designed to provide and mediate support t…
Looking beyond the parent-child dyad for the determinants of maternal styles of interaction
The manner in which maternal, family, and child characteristics; personal well-being and health; intrafamily functioning and support; and several dimensions of informal support were related to five different maternal styles of interaction was examined. The subjects were 102 mothers of retarded, handicapped, and developmentally at-risk young children. The mothers completed several self-report measures of well-being and support, were interviewed ab…
The clinical utility of Piagetian-based scales of infant development
The clinical utility of assessment scales based on Jean Piaget's theory of infant development is described. A clinical process is presented which permits one to determine (a) whether a child is showing delayed or non-delayed sensorimotor performance, (b) whether a child is showing normal or atypical patterns of sensorimotor development, (c) the extent to which deviations in a child's patterns of development are present, (d) the exact nature of su…
Characteristics of hiding places and the transition to Stage IV performance in object permanence tasks
Social concomitants of cognitive mastery in Down's syndrome infants
Smiling as an index of cognitive mastery was examined in a study of seven infants clinically diagnosed as having Down's syndrome. The subjects were administered the Uzgiris-Hunt scales of infant psychological development on five occasions over a four month period of time, and their smiling responses to their successful and unsuccessful completion of the items administered were coded. Two hypothesis derived from J. McVicker Hunt's theory of intrin…
Structural and Organisational Features of Sensorimotor Intelligence Among Retarded Infants and Toddlers
According to Piaget, cognitive development is characterised by the simultaneous and concurrent emergence of constructs that require the same underlying intellectual processes. Such syncronies in development-structure d'ensemble in Piaget's terms-are a fundamental feature of his stage theory. In the present study, the structural features of sensorimotor intelligence were assessed among three groups of retarded infants and toddlers administered the…
Measuring the Helpgiving Practices of Human Services Program Practitioners
The psychometric properties and utility of the Helpgiving Practices Scale are described. The scale includes 25 items which measure different kinds of helpgiving practices that have previously been found associated with positive recipient outcomes, including psychosocial functioning and self-efficacy appraisals. Item analysis, internal consistency reliability, factor analysis, criterion-related validity, and known-groups validity found the scale t…
Characteristics of hiding places and the transition to Stage IV performance in object permanence tasks
Characteristics and consequences of help‐giving practices in contrasting human services programs
Relationships between human services program models and help‐giving practices, and between both program models and help‐giving practices and help‐seeker control appraisals were examined in a study of 107 low socioeconomic background families. Three kinds of human services agencies were included in the study, each of which differed in terms of their implicit and explicit assumptions about the families they served and the roles professionals and fa…
Structural and Organisational Features of Sensorimotor Intelligence Among Retarded Infants and Toddlers
According to Piaget, cognitive development is characterised by the simultaneous and concurrent emergence of constructs that require the same underlying intellectual processes. Such syncronies in development-structure d'ensemble in Piaget's terms-are a fundamental feature of his stage theory. In the present study, the structural features of sensorimotor intelligence were assessed among three groups of retarded infants and toddlers administered the…
Strengthening family capacity to provide young children everyday natural learning opportunities
A capacity-building approach to natural learning environment intervention practices was the focus of the study. Capacity-building early childhood intervention promotes parents’ or other caregivers’ skills, abilities, and confidence to provide children development-enhancing learning opportunities. Natural environment practices use everyday experiences, events, and places as sources of child learning opportunities that promote child competencies. T…
Social concomitants of cognitive mastery in Down's syndrome infants
Smiling as an index of cognitive mastery was examined in a study of seven infants clinically diagnosed as having Down's syndrome. The subjects were administered the Uzgiris-Hunt scales of infant psychological development on five occasions over a four month period of time, and their smiling responses to their successful and unsuccessful completion of the items administered were coded. Two hypothesis derived from J. McVicker Hunt's theory of intrin…
Structural and Organisational Features of Sensorimotor Intelligence Among Retarded Infants and Toddlers
According to Piaget, cognitive development is characterised by the simultaneous and concurrent emergence of constructs that require the same underlying intellectual processes. Such syncronies in development-structure d'ensemble in Piaget's terms-are a fundamental feature of his stage theory. In the present study, the structural features of sensorimotor intelligence were assessed among three groups of retarded infants and toddlers administered the…
The clinical utility of Piagetian-based scales of infant development
The clinical utility of assessment scales based on Jean Piaget's theory of infant development is described. A clinical process is presented which permits one to determine (a) whether a child is showing delayed or non-delayed sensorimotor performance, (b) whether a child is showing normal or atypical patterns of sensorimotor development, (c) the extent to which deviations in a child's patterns of development are present, (d) the exact nature of su…
Characteristics of hiding places and the transition to Stage IV performance in object permanence tasks
A social systems perspective of adolescent pregnancy
Social systems theory was used as a framework for examining the relationships among demographic characteristics (age, education level, marital status, social class, income), intrapersonal beliefs (self-esteem, locus-of-control, and parent attitudes), social support, and pregnancy, birth-related, and postpartum outcomes. The subjects were 21 teenage mothers who participated in a model-demonstration program designed to provide and mediate support t…
Looking beyond the parent-child dyad for the determinants of maternal styles of interaction
The manner in which maternal, family, and child characteristics; personal well-being and health; intrafamily functioning and support; and several dimensions of informal support were related to five different maternal styles of interaction was examined. The subjects were 102 mothers of retarded, handicapped, and developmentally at-risk young children. The mothers completed several self-report measures of well-being and support, were interviewed ab…
Use of low structured observation for assessing communicative intents in young children
Thirty-six normally developing children (18 boys and 18 girls), evenly divided into three age groups from 13-30 months of age, were observed while playing with their mothers. Their communicative behaviours were recorded according to intent (comment, request, reject) and level (non-verbal, verbal-contextual and verbal-decon textual). Rejects occurred significantly less often than either comments or requests, which did not differ significantly, acr…
Characteristics and consequences of help‐giving practices in contrasting human services programs
Relationships between human services program models and help‐giving practices, and between both program models and help‐giving practices and help‐seeker control appraisals were examined in a study of 107 low socioeconomic background families. Three kinds of human services agencies were included in the study, each of which differed in terms of their implicit and explicit assumptions about the families they served and the roles professionals and fa…
Measuring the Helpgiving Practices of Human Services Program Practitioners
The psychometric properties and utility of the Helpgiving Practices Scale are described. The scale includes 25 items which measure different kinds of helpgiving practices that have previously been found associated with positive recipient outcomes, including psychosocial functioning and self-efficacy appraisals. Item analysis, internal consistency reliability, factor analysis, criterion-related validity, and known-groups validity found the scale t…
Young Children's Participation in Everyday Family and Community Activity
Young Children's Participation in Everyday Family and Community Activity
Patterns of participation in everyday family and community activities are described for children from birth to 6 years of age. Parents or other primary caregivers completed a survey of either family life or community life as sources of children's learning opportunities and experiences. Rates of children's participation in 50 family activities and 50 community activities at different ages were identified and analyzed in terms of similarities and d…
Parents' and Practitioners' Perspectives of Young Children's Everyday Natural Learning Environments
Parents' views of natural learning environments were compared to those of practitioners having either considerable or little experience with the characteristics of everyday natural learning opportunities. 8 experienced practitioners' views were congruent with those of the parents, whereas the 8 inexperienced practitioners' views were incongruent with those of both parents and their experienced peers
University Faculty Preparation of Students in Using Natural Environment Practices with Young Children
155 university faculty teaching students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language pathology, early childhood special education, or multidisciplinary studies programs were surveyed to assess how the students were taught how to use everyday family and community activities as natural learning opportunities for young children. Analysis showed that the faculty provided very little training in using community activity settings as …
Young Children's Natural Learning Environments
1,000 parents of infants and toddlers enrolled in early childhood intervention programs were surveyed about the number of learning opportunities provided their preschool children using different approaches to early intervention. Findings showed that more learning opportunities were reported when participation in everyday activity settings was conceptualized as a type of intervention rather than as settings for professionals to conduct their inter…
Meta‐analysis of family‐centered helpgiving practices research
A meta‐analysis of 47 studies investigating the relationship between family‐centered helpgiving practices and parent, family, and child behavior and functioning is reported. The studies included more than 11,000 participants from seven different countries. Data analysis was guided by a practice‐based theory of family‐centered helpgiving that hypothesized direct effects of relational and participatory helpgiving practices on self‐efficacy beliefs …
Preschool Children's Emerging Participation in Leisure and Recreation Activities
Parents (n = 1509) of young children birth to 6 years of age were surveyed about their children's participation in 30 leisure and recreation community activities. Analyses focused on similarities and differences according to type of activity (leisure vs. recreation), child age, and child developmental condition (children with vs. children without disabilities or delays). Results showed that there were age-related increases in the patterns of part…
Influence of the Interests of Children with Autism on Everyday Learning Opportunities
Findings from a pilot study investigating the influence of the interests of young children with autism on parents' provision of everyday informal child learning opportunities are described. 17 children (13 boys, 4 girls) were divided into two groups that received everyday learning opportunities of Low interest and High interest, based on parents' bi-weekly ratings of the interestingness of the opportunities to the children, using an investigator-…
Influence of the Interests of Children With Autism on Everyday Learning Opportunities 1,2
Findings from a pilot study investigating the influence of the interests of young children with autism on parents' provision of everyday informal child learning opportunities are described. 17 children (13 boys, 4 girls) were divided into two groups that received everyday learning opportunities of Low interest and High interest, based on parents' bi-weekly ratings of the interestingness of the opportunities to the children, using an investigator-…
Continuity of Parental Behavioural Ratings of Children Adopted from China and Parenting Competence, Confidence and Enjoyment
Mary Beth Bruder, Carl J Dunst, Cristina Mogro-Wilson and Tony Xing Tan used an analytic procedure called structural equation modelling (SEM) to evaluate the effects of adoption and post-adoption child behaviour measures on parents' self-judgements of their parenting competence, confidence and enjoyment. SEM is a statistical procedure for investigating complex relationships among multiple variables simultaneously. The study participants were 314 …
Strengthening family capacity to provide young children everyday natural learning opportunities
A capacity-building approach to natural learning environment intervention practices was the focus of the study. Capacity-building early childhood intervention promotes parents’ or other caregivers’ skills, abilities, and confidence to provide children development-enhancing learning opportunities. Natural environment practices use everyday experiences, events, and places as sources of child learning opportunities that promote child competencies. T…
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Governmental Policies on Rehabilitation Services and Physical Medicine in Jordan
Background : Although the COVID-19 pandemic led to a series of governmental policies and regulations around the world, the effect of these policies on access to and provision of rehabilitation services has not been examined, especially in low and middle- income countries. Aims : The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of governmental policies and procedures on the number of patients who accessed rehabilitation services in the public s…
Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Cognition (4 works)