National Research Institute for Child and Family Studies - Publications

Annotated Bibliography

• The Applied Research Bibliography (full version) includes a listing of over 200 published research papers and reports regarding the majority of research conducted at Boys Town programs from 1990 to 2007. Each entry has a short summary of the paper. Publications are grouped in the following categories: Behavioral Health Care, Clinical Services, Common Sense Parenting® and Family-Based Services, Education Model, Parental Discipline, Reading is FAME®, Residential Family Services, Short-Term Care, Treatment Foster Care and Miscellaneous.

Data News You Can Use! newsletter

• The Data News You Can Use! newsletter began in 1998 and has been published bi-monthly since April 2004. The main purpose of the newsletter is to disseminate results of National Research Institute research and evaluation projects in non-technical language.

Teaching-Family Model

• The Boys Town Model is an adaptation of the Teaching-Family Model, developed at the University of Kansas. Contact Dean Fixen at dfixsen@fmhi.usf.edu for an extensive research bibliography for the Teaching-Family Model, or visit www.teaching-family.org to download the bibliography.