Ruth Lawrence

Biographic Data

ID6058115
NAMERuth Lawrence
GIVEN NAMESRuth
FAMILY NAMELawrence
SIGNATURELAWRENCE R
AFFILIATIONSa Burnside's Community Care Program , Sydney
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1956
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Building New York State Centers of Excellence in Children’s Environmental Health

    Maida Galvez, Maida P Galvez et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2019References: 16

    Public health programs may be seriously affected in periods of federal retrenchment. During these times, state-based strategies provide an alternate pathway for advancing public health. A 12-year campaign to secure state support for a network of Centers of Excellence in Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) promoting health of children across New York State is described. It was driven by rising rates of asthma, birth defects, developmental disord…

  • Adapting the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Survey to Enhance Locally Available Data

    Open AccessAnn M Dozier, Ann Dozier et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2013

  • Research dissemination

    Ruth LawrenceARTICLEEvidence & Policy2006Cited by: 1

    English Several changes have posed increasing challenges for the active dissemination of research within the policy world: the evidence-based policy-making movement has led to a demand for the implications of research to be spelt out; rapid technological changes have offered new electronic methods for bringing research to the attention of policy makers, but have also created information overload; while modernisation of the policy process has led …

  • Understanding fatal assault of children

    Open AccessR J Lawrence, Ruth LawrenceARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2004Cited by: 1References: 23

  • Recruiting carers for children in substitute care

    Ruth Lawrence, Ruth M LawrenceARTICLEAustralian Social Work1994Cited by: 1References: 6

    Recruiting carers to look after children is central to foster care programs. This article is a case study describing foster care recruitment at a non-government agency (Burnside) in Sydney during 1988 to 1989. As there was a shortage of foster carers at the agency, the recruitment program was revised. The paper describes the program revision (aims, principles and means), the short-term results, and further research questions. The aims of the prog…

  • Recruitment of carers for children in substitute care a planning framework and research questions for the Australian context

    Ruth Lawrence, Ruth M LawrenceARTICLEAustralian Social Work1993References: 9

    The increased emphasis on foster care in child welfare depends upon successful recruitment of foster carers. For workers concerned with recruitment of foster carers, this article provides a planning framework and raises research questions based on an overview of the relevant literature. Four points to consider when planning foster care recruitment are suggested: goals, means of recruitment, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. As there …

  • Determinants of attachment and mastery motivation in infants born to adolescent mothers

    Open AccessAnn Frodi, Barbara Keller et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal1984References: 12

    Thirty mothers aged 14–19 and their approximately one-year-old babies participated in this study of the influence of the social support network and stress on infant-mother attachment and on mastery motivation. During the home visit the mothers completed a demographic questionnaire, the Psychosocial Kinship Inventory and the Life Events Stress Scale. In the laboratory the infants' mastery motivation and infant-mother attachment were assessed. A di…

  • A Study of Periodic School Medical Examinations. II. The Annual Increment of New “Defects”

    Alfred Yankauer, Ruth Lawrence et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1956

    A Study of Periodic School Medical Examinations. II. The Annual Increment of New “Defects” Alfred Yankauer, and Ruth Lawrence CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.46.12.1553 Published Online: August 29, 2011