Engaging nonresident african american fathers in intervention research: What practitioners should know about parental monitoring in nonresident families

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 298-307

  Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard ^a   Bell, Lee ^b   Brooks, Cassandra L ^a   Ward, Jasmine D ^c   Jennings, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Neighborhood Round Table in Flint   (United States)

Author keywords

African American fathers; depression and fathers; family interventions; nonresident fathers; parental monitoring; race socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953731367     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731510382923     Document Type: Article

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