Joseph H. Britton

Children's Perceptions of Their Parents: A Comparison of Finnish and American Children

Comparisons were made between perceptions of parents of Finnish and American boys and girls, nine to eleven years of age. The findings indicate considerable similarity and few differences between the national groups, between boys and girls, and between the age levels in the ways parents are viewed. All children tended to view the mother more frequently than the father as a source of understanding and comfort, and all the groups saw the father more often than the mother as dominating, punitive, and fear-provoking. The proposition that older children tend to view the parent of the same sex less positively than younger children was not supported.

The development and evaluation of training standards for the aging network and academia: I. Background and rationale.

This is the third of four papers describing a cooperative project which set out to develop training standards for Area Agency on Aging management and casework/counseling personnal in the aging network in Pennsylvania. In this paper conclusions and implications of the project are presented and some of the key policy issues in the use of the standards for personnel management and curriculum development are discussed. A model for the development of educational materials for use in the aging network is presented.