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Work-Life Integration and Children's Mental Health |
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Julie M. Rosenzweig and Eileen M. Brennan discuss working parents caring for children with mental health disorders. |
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Work and Family Graphic
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The types of advocacy provided by states for children's mental health. |
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The International Corner |
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Saija Mauro writes about work-family balance and gender in Finland. |
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New Brief in Policy Briefing Series: Family Responsibilities Discrimination |
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The Sloan Network collaborated with WorkLifeLaw for this issue on FRD, "employment discrimination against workers based on their family caregiving responsibilities."
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Work-Family Poll: Are Employers More or Less Supportive in the Economic Downturn? |
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Please answer the poll on our home page or blog and let us know what you think!
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Who's Who in Work and Family? |
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New Work and Family Leaders in the database: Chardie Bairde, Shannon Davis, Ann Huffman, Russell Matthews, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Lori Wadsworth,
Rebecca Glauber, Chien-Juh Gu, Jessica Bagger, Heather Boushey, and Margaret Usdansky. |
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Work-Life Integration and Children's Mental Health
An Interview with Julie M. Rosenzweig
and Eileen M. Brennan
by Judi Casey and Karen Corday |
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Casey:
Why did you explore the intersection between children's mental health and work-life integration?
Rosenzweig:
We are located at a national research and training center that emphasizes children’s mental health and family support. When we began to look at the employment issues of the parents of children with mental health disorders, it became apparent to us that these parents were significantly challenged by finding and keeping employment. There were few work or community resources to support their efforts to meet both their caregiving and employment needs. We began to look at the notion of work-life integration for these families, which led to us examining where the research on children’s mental health and work-family studies intersect.
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The International Corner |
Work-Family Balance From a Gender Perspective: Some Observations From Finland
by Saija Mauno, PhD
University of Jyväskylä, Department of Psychology
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The Gender Equality Index just recently ranked Finland as the second best country when it comes to gender equality. The Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) have long been known for their gender equality ideologies and practices. Accordingly, a dual-breadwinner ideology in which both mothers and fathers work full-time has characterized the Finnish society for centuries. As a result, different types of statutory family-friendly policies have been developed to help parents achieve better work-family balance and shared parenthood. In general, family-friendly policies are available to men and women employees alike.
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| LITERATURE UPDATES |
The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an online database which contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.
One year ago, there were 9,090 citations in the Literature Database. As of December 2008, we now have over 10,120 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to ten publications that have recently been entered into this database.
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| UPCOMING ISSUES |
Take part in The Network News. Upcoming issues of The Network News will feature:
- Susan Seitel on the history of work and family
- Yelizavetta Kofman, The Lattice Group and Jennifer Deal, Center for Creative Leadership, on Generation Y and work-family
Is your work related to any of these topics? If so, please contact us. |
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Judi Casey, MSW, Director / Principal Investigator |
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Karen Corday, MSLIS, Information Services Specialist |
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Jennifer Lawless, Graphic Designer / Communications Specialist |
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Lauren Leonard, Administrative Assistant |
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Sandee Shulkin, MSW, Project Manager |
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Julie Weber, J.D., Policy Specialist |
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