The Home Visitor's Guidebook » (3rd Edition)

From the pioneering home visiting expert with more than 35 years of experience, this third edition of The Home Visitor's Guidebook is the ultimate professional development resource for early interventionists, social workers, and other practitioners who work directly with parents and children. Enhanced throughout with updated material (see sidebar), this research-based guide helps readers master all the essential elements of home visiting-from communicating effectively to working with families at risk-and shows how to support parents as they: encourage children's healthy social and emotional development, provide developmentally appropriate guidance and discipline, enhance children's communication and language skills, use play to promote learning and development, strengthen family connections thorough everyday rituals and celebrations, foster positive sibling relationships.

In vignettes throughout the book, experienced home visitors model 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. With this must-have third edition from the voice of experience on home visiting, professionals will get parents engaged and actively involved in their child's development-and approach their important work with passion and creativity.

About the Author:
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

Foreword Jeree H. Pawl Pawl, Jeree H.

I Home Visiting: The Basics 1

1 The Parent - Home Visitor Relationship 3

2 The Home Visitor's Approach 31

3 The Home Visitor's Professional Development 67

II Promoting Healthy Parent and Child Development 95

4 Developing a Sense of Self: The Foundation of Social and Emotional Development 97

5 Guidance and Discipline 143

6 Communication and Language 173

7 Play, Learning, and Development 201

8 Everyday Rituals and Celebrations 227

9 Children's Illnesses 257

10 Siblings 269

11 The Psychologically Vulnerable Family 287

III Person and Profession 311

12 Personal History - Professional Competence 313

Resources 347

Endnotes 357

References 381

Index 403