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

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

<DIV><P>Pioneering expert Carol Klass was first to develop a home visiting primer readers could trust—and now she's updated her bestselling <I>Home Visitor's Guidebook</I> 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. </P><P>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 <UL><LI>encourage children's healthy social and emotional development</LI><LI>provide developmentally appropriate guidance and discipline</LI><LI>enhance children's communication and language skills</LI><LI>use play to promote learning and development</LI><LI>strengthen family connections thorough everyday rituals and celebrations</LI><LI>foster positive sibling relationships</LI></UL><P>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. </P><P>New to this edition is information on today's hot topics including 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; and the secure child. </P><P>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. </P></DIV></P>