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:
-become more self reflective about their parenting and empathetic toward their children
-examine and gain control over their defences and ways of dealing with stress that are negatively influencing their parenting
-strengthen their sense of competence and social support
-develop positive perceptions of their children
-deal with unresolved loss and trauma
-enhance their interactions with their children
-regulate their own emotions and those of their children
-develop good planning and problem-solving skills
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.
Everyone feels sad sometimes. It's a quiet, lonely feeling. But it can often help to talk to someone about it. What do you do when your child is feeling sad? In Notes for Parents at the back of the book, a child psychologist offers some helpful insights. More info
Geraldine McCaughrean has written a book from the perspective of Joseph, the father of the new born Jesus. On the night after the birth of Jesus, Joseph is awake in the Bethlehem stable and as he sits by the manger and looks over the baby boy Joseph he asks himself how he, a mere man can father the one who created all of the world, the one who set the sun in the sky, filled the oceans with fish and who set the world rotating, he wonders how... More info
Executive Marbles is just one of the many team building activities included in this title. . This book contains complete instructions for all activities to make your training meaningful and fun. The activities come with pictures, diagrams and a list of materials needed for each event. Other games include: *Capture the Rope, * *Masking Tape Activities,* *Phone Tag * A matrix of learning objectives and another matrix of group sizes is provided for the activities. More info
