Explores the experience of being a new leader in an infant-family program. This book describes how to use self-awareness, observation, and flexible responses to manage stress and increase on-the-job effectiveness. Leadership issues, including individualizing one's relationships with staff members and encouraging collegial work, are also discussed.

Being in Charge: Reflective Leadership in Infant/Family Programs

Parlakian, Rebecca

Seibel, Nancy L.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Zero to Three

A trainer's manual for upgrading the quality of infant and toddler child care programs. Recognizing the importance of caregiver - child and caregiver - parent relationships in the early years, it provides a framework for using the Program for Infant-Toddler Caregivers (PITC) videos and training materials.

Look, Listen and Learn

Focusing on direct service work with parents and children, this resource explores reflective approaches that program leaders and staff can use to establish relationships with families. Strategies for boundary setting and managing one’s reactions to families address the complex interpersonal situations that staff face everyday.

The Power of Questions: Building Quality Relationships With Infants and Families

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This book explores how supportive relationships at all levels of an infant–family program (supervisor and staff, staff and family, parent and child) contribute to children's healthy social–emotional development (infant mental health). The authors present the core concepts of infant mental health, offer strategies that leaders and trainers can use to promote children’s mental health, and describe guidelines for referring very young children for assessment and treatment. This publication offers numerous vignettes featuring a mix of infant–family settings and exercises designed to help staff and leaders better understand and apply infant mental health practices.

Building Strong Foundations: Practical Guidance for Promoting the Social/Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers

Psychology & Counseling

Suitable for program leaders and practitioners, this book examines how culture shapes children's fundamental learning about themselves, their emotions, and their way of interacting and relating to others. It also includes recommendations for providing culturally responsive services.

How Culture Shapes Social-Emotional Development: Implications for Practice in Infant-Family Program

Day, Monimalika, Ph.D.

Parenting & Relationships

Ten units of instruction provide 60 hours of training activities and materials. Eight of these are focused on providing early care and education with concepts, skills and exercises to prepare them to help in the primary prevention of child maltreatment. Two are aimed specifically at directors and/or leaders of organizations.

Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Parent-provider Partnerships in Child Care

Gillespie, Linda Groves

Britt, Donna

Seible, Nancy S.

Your Child's Development: 9 Age-based Handouts Providing Information and Guidance on Behavior and Development from Zero to Three

Lerner, Claire

Parenting

Learning Happens II

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