The Home Visitor's Guidebook: Promoting Optimal Parent & Child Development
by Klass, Carol S.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-07-30
Publisher(s): Paul H Brookes Pub Co
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Author Biography
About the Author: Carol S. Klass, Ph.D., is a child and early intervention specialist with more than 35 years of experience in the field
Table of Contents
| About the Author | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Credits | p. xx |
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
| Approach | p. xxv |
| Overview of Topics | p. xxviii |
| Home Visiting: The Basics | p. 1 |
| The Parent-Home Visitor Relationship | p. 3 |
| Cultural Sensitivity and Recognition | p. 4 |
| Bilingual Families | p. 5 |
| Forming the Parent-Home Visitor Relationship | p. 6 |
| Progression of the Parent-Home Visitor Relationship | p. 13 |
| Establishing Reciprocal, Positive Feelings Between Parents and Home Visitors: A Personal Relationship | p. 17 |
| Shared Delight in the Child | p. 20 |
| Grandparents | p. 21 |
| Fathers | p. 22 |
| Working with Pregnant Mothers and Their Families | p. 23 |
| Home Visitors' Relationship with Teen Parents | p. 23 |
| Mothers and Childbearing Daughters | p. 28 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 28 |
| Conclusion | p. 30 |
| The Home Visitor's Approach | p. 31 |
| Communication and Interpersonal Skills | p. 32 |
| Essential Knowledge and Skills | p. 50 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 60 |
| Conclusion | p. 65 |
| The Home Visitor's Professional Development | p. 67 |
| Education | p. 68 |
| Supervision | p. 82 |
| Peer Mentoring: A Program Example | p. 86 |
| Assessment and Evaluation | p. 89 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 91 |
| Conclusion | p. 92 |
| Promoting Healthy Parent and Child Development | p. 95 |
| Developing a Sense of Self: The Foundation of Social and Emotional Development | p. 97 |
| Neurophysiology | p. 99 |
| Developing the Body Self: Birth to 6 Months | p. 103 |
| The Autonomous Self: 7-18 Months | p. 116 |
| The Social Self: 19 Months to 3 Years | p. 124 |
| The Narrative Self: 3-5 Years | p. 130 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 138 |
| Conclusion | p. 139 |
| Guidance and Discipline | p. 143 |
| Guidance and Discipline | p. 145 |
| A Developmental Approach | p. 146 |
| Early Infancy: Birth to 8 Months | p. 146 |
| Late Infancy: 8-17 Months | p. 150 |
| Toddlerhood: 18 Months to 3 Years | p. 153 |
| Late Toddlerhood: 3-5 Years | p. 160 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 170 |
| Conclusion | p. 170 |
| Communication and Language | p. 173 |
| Communication and Language | p. 173 |
| Prespeech: Birth to 10 Months | p. 174 |
| Emergence of First Words and Jargon: 10-15 Months | p. 180 |
| Word Combinations: 16 Months to 2 Years | p. 183 |
| Telling Stories: 2-5 Years | p. 187 |
| Emerging Literacy | p. 193 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 196 |
| Conclusion | p. 199 |
| Play, Learning, and Development | p. 201 |
| Birth to 12 Months | p. 202 |
| 12-30 Months | p. 207 |
| 30 Months to 5 Years | p. 213 |
| Electronic Play | p. 219 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 219 |
| Conclusion | p. 224 |
| Everyday Rituals and Celebrations | p. 227 |
| Patterns of Mutuality | p. 230 |
| Family Celebrations and Traditions | p. 251 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 254 |
| Conclusion | p. 255 |
| Children's Illnesses | p. 257 |
| Caregiving as a Social Experience | p. 257 |
| Illnesses and Medical Conditions | p. 258 |
| Developmental Importance of Illness | p. 265 |
| Serious Illness | p. 266 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 267 |
| Conclusion | p. 268 |
| Siblings | p. 269 |
| New Children | p. 270 |
| Parental Expectations and Comparisons | p. 273 |
| Valuing Different Children | p. 275 |
| Sibling Relationships | p. 277 |
| Discipline | p. 280 |
| Large Families | p. 280 |
| Only Children | p. 280 |
| Balancing the Home Visitor's Interactions | p. 281 |
| Difficulties and Dilemmas | p. 283 |
| Conclusion | p. 284 |
| The Psychologically Vulnerable Family | p. 287 |
| Marital/Partnership Discord and Divorce | p. 290 |
| Mental Illness | p. 293 |
| Substance Abuse | p. 297 |
| Domestic and Community Violence | p. 301 |
| The Resilient Child | p. 308 |
| Conclusion | p. 309 |
| Person and Profession | p. 311 |
| Personal History-Professional Competence | p. 313 |
| Janice | p. 315 |
| Cynthia | p. 324 |
| Childhood Pain to Professional Competence | p. 341 |
| Conclusion | p. 344 |
| Resources | p. 347 |
| Endnotes | p. 357 |
| References | p. 381 |
| Index | p. 403 |
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