TY - JOUR
T1 - Practical guidelines for educating policymakers
T2 - The Family Impact Seminar as an approach to advancing the interests of children and families in the policy arena
AU - Wilcox, Brian L.
AU - Weisz, P. Victoria
AU - Miller, Monica K.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Psychologists are well positioned to contribute to policymaking on issues affecting the well-being of children, youth, and families. A good deal of psychological research is relevant to policy issues such as child mental health services, child care, adoption and foster care, and children 's media. In this article we offer an alternative to direct policy advocacy as a means for psychologists' involvement in the policy arena. Policy education, a nonpartisan and nonadversarial approach to working with policymakers, is described and differentiated from child advocacy. We then present an example of 1 approach to policy education, the Family Impact Seminar. The article closes with a discussion of lessons we have learned regarding effectively communicating research to policymakers.
AB - Psychologists are well positioned to contribute to policymaking on issues affecting the well-being of children, youth, and families. A good deal of psychological research is relevant to policy issues such as child mental health services, child care, adoption and foster care, and children 's media. In this article we offer an alternative to direct policy advocacy as a means for psychologists' involvement in the policy arena. Policy education, a nonpartisan and nonadversarial approach to working with policymakers, is described and differentiated from child advocacy. We then present an example of 1 approach to policy education, the Family Impact Seminar. The article closes with a discussion of lessons we have learned regarding effectively communicating research to policymakers.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15374424jccp3404_6
DO - 10.1207/s15374424jccp3404_6
M3 - Article
C2 - 16232061
AN - SCOPUS:30444431949
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 34
SP - 638
EP - 645
JO - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
IS - 4
ER -