Helping families who live in environments with multiple risk factors—including poverty, domestic violence, teen parenthood, mental illness, and substance abuse—requires that professionals and paraprofessionals work together to provide the best possible interventions. This much-needed book shows service providers how to help these multi-risk families by using an integrative model that brings together the most effective intervention techniques from a variety of theoretical approaches, parenting strategies, and innovative programs. Professionals will learn how to effectively engage parents if they are resistant to intervention, and they'll discover specific, practical ways to help parents
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<li>become more self reflective about their parenting and empathetic toward their children</li>
<li>examine and gain control over their defenses and ways of dealing with stress that are negatively influencing their parenting</li>
<li>strengthen their sense of competence and social support</li>
<li>develop positive perceptions of their children</li>
<li>deal with unresolved loss and trauma</li>
<li>enhance their interactions with their children</li>
<li>regulate their own emotions and those of their children</li>
<li>develop good planning and problem-solving skills</li>
</ul> Extended case studies vividly illustrate key points and techniques and present an integrated model of intervention, making this an ideal professional development resource for psychologists, social workers, early childhood educators, home visitors, and other service providers. To help program administrators ensure high-quality early intervention, the book also demonstrates how to plan and set up service delivery systems within and across individual programs, structure and train effective teams, develop sound organizational policies, and understand and address the effects of burnout and vicarious trauma on staff members. The book is also an excellent resource for university and colleges that train early intervention practitioners who work with families in multi-risk environments.

Early Intervention with Multi-Risk Families: An Integrative Approach

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Landy Ph.D., Sarah

Menna Ph.D., Rosanne

Mental Health

Brookes Publishing

Positive social-emotional development is recognized now more than ever as the cornerstone of success in school and in life—which means every early childhood professional must enter the field ready to support children's social and emotional health. This essential text is exactly what they need: a comprehensive, one-stop guide to addressing every facet of social-emotional development, working skillfully with children and families, and improving parents' interactions with their children.
A trusted core textbook since the popular first edition was published in 2002, Pathways to Competence has been fully updated to reflect 6 years of tremendous advances in research. Highly respected expert Sarah Landy, a 20-year veteran of the early intervention field, guides future professionals through the nine most important domains of social and emotional development in children from birth to 6 years. Readers will 
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<li>get the most up-to-date research findings on each social and emotional area</li>
<li>know what social-emotional milestones a child should reach at each age level</li>
<li>address parents' most common questions about hot topics such as challenging behavior, language development, discipline, play, and feeding and sleeping problems</li>
<li>get a wide range of simple, concrete strategies and principles to use with children in their care and share with caregivers to promote their children's development in each key area</li>
<li>guide caregivers with updated exercises and activities that sharpen their parenting skills</li>
<li>select and use appropriate assessment tools</li>
<li>understand all the major theories related to social and emotional development
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<li>test their own knowledge with updated discussion questions in each chapter </li>
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With its thorough, multifaceted coverage of each domain, this book is the authoritative social-emotional textbook for preservice professionals—and a resource inservice practitioners will use for the rest of their careers to guide parents and answer crucial questions about development. Highly readable and meticulously researched, Pathways to Competence is the one book every early childhood professional needs to help ensure a lifetime of social-emotional health for all the children they work with.

Pathways to Competence: Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children, Second Edition

Psychology & Counseling

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