The Home Visitor's Guidebook: Promoting Optimal Parent and Child Development, Third Edition (Klass)

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The Home Visitor’s Guidebook
Promoting Optimal Parent and Child Development, Third Edition
By

Carol S. Klass, Ph.D.

New edition—from the home visiting expert with over 35 years of experience!

Pioneering expert Carol Klass was first to develop a home visiting primer readers could trust—and now she's updated her classic Home Visitor's Guidebook for the next generation of practitioners. The ultimate professional development resource for early interventionists, social workers, therapists, and other home visitors, this research-based guidebook is enhanced throughout with up-to-date references and new material on today's hot topics.

Readers will learn the basics of effective home visiting: building trust with families, communicating effectively, maintaining boundaries, working with families experiencing risk factors, and integrating professional beliefs with families' cultural beliefs. Then, with the in-depth child development information and practical guidelines, home visitors will help parents

encourage children's healthy social and emotional development
provide developmentally appropriate guidance and discipline
enhance children's communication and language skills
use play to promote learning and development
strengthen family connections through everyday rituals and celebrations
foster positive sibling relationships

Throughout the book, veteran home visitors model skillful and positive interactions with families, reflect candidly on their successes and challenges, and give readers invaluable advice on creating a support network and learning new strategies through professional development.

With this must-have guidebook from the voice of experience on effective home visiting, professionals will get parents engaged and actively involved in their child's development—and approach their important work with renewed passion and creativity.

New material on

assessment and evaluation
the role of grandparents
childhood illness, including dental disease, nutritional deficiencies, obesity, asthma and allergies, and lead poisoning
achievement motivation
moral identity
the secure child

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ISBN 978-1-55766-903-2
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approx. 544 pages / 6 x 9
July 2008 / $44.95
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Tentative Table of Contents

About the Author
Foreword
Jeree H. Pawl
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

I. Home Visiting: The Basics

1. The Parent–Home Visitor Relationship

Cultural Sensitivity and Recognition
Forming the Parent–Home Visitor Relationship
Progression of the Parent–Home Visitor Relationship
Establishing Reciprocal, Positive Feelings Between Parents and Home Visitors: A Personal Relationship
Shared Delight in the Child
Grandparents
Fathers
Working with Pregnant Mothers and Their Families
Home Visitors' Relationship with Teen Parents
Mothers and Childbearing Daughters
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

2. The Home Visitor's Approach

Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential Knowledge and Skills
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

3. The Home Visitor's Professional Development

Education
Supervision
Peer Mentoring: A Program Example
Assessment and Evaluation
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

II. Promoting Health Parent and Child Development

4. Developing a Sense of Self: The Foundation of Social and Emotional Development

Neurophysiology
Developing the Body Self: Birth to 6 Months
The Autonomous Self: 7–18 Months
The Social Self: 19 Months to 3 Years
The Narrative Self: 3–5 Years
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

5. Guidance and Discipline

Guidance and Discipline
A Developmental Approach
Early Infancy: Birth to 8 Months
Late Infancy: 8–17 Months
Toddlerhood: 18 Months to 3 Years
Later Toddlerhood: 3–5 Years
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

6. Communication and Language

Communication and Language
Prespeech: Birth to 10 Months
Emergence of First Words and Jargon: 10–15 Months
Word Combinations: 16 Months to 2 Years
Telling Stories: 2–5 Years
Emerging Literacy
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

7. Play, Learning, and Development

Birth to 12 Months
12–30 Months
Electronic Play
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

8. Everyday Rituals and Celebrations

Patterns of Mutuality
Family Celebrations and Traditions
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

9. Children's Illnesses

Caregiving as a Social Experience
Illnesses and Medical Conditions
Developmental Importance of Illness
Serious Illness
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

10. Siblings

New Children
Parent Expectations and Comparisons
Valuing Different Children
Sibling Relationships
Discipline
Large Families
Only Children
Balancing the Home Visitor's Interactions
Difficulties and Dilemmas
Conclusion

11. The Psychologically Vulnerable Family

Marital/Partnership Discord and Divorce
Mental Illness
Substance Abuse
Domestic and Community Violence
The Resilient Child
Conclusion

III. Person and Profession

12. Personal History—Professional Competence

Janice
Cynthia
Childhood Pain to Professional Competence
Conclusion

Resources
Endnotes
References
Index