Parent education/family strengthening : First Steps effective practices report
The intent of this paper is to briefly describe the families whose children are likely to be assessed as “not ready for school” and the prevalent parent education/family strengthening programs funded through South Carolina’s First Steps to School Readiness initiative as documented with Program Effectiveness Reports and the Planning, Implementation and Evaluation documents which provide the basis for all the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness data used in this report. Additionally, this paper will highlight the association between recommended best practice found in research and the current characteristics and activities of the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness funded programs and relate this information in a way that programs and practices might use to strengthen their efforts to empower and change parents, families and children.
Educating the infant and toddler
The first few years of a child's life are now regarded as some of the most critical in the human life span. This important book recognizes the essential role that parents play in their children's development as teachers, focusing on the widely acclaimed national "Parents as Teachers" project and the discoveries on which it was based.
The Influence of the Supervision of Psychotherapy upon being Therapeutic: II: Modes of Influence of the Supervisory Relationship *
Through supervision, the student develops those innate personal characteristics which are highly important in being therapeutic. In making conscious use of “reality identification” by the student with his teacher, we must take care to avoid certain pitfalls. What is not wanted is transference identification. To help avoid this, we must select appropriate teachers as supervisors. The student should also have more than one supervisor, as this tends to protect against the development of over-idealization on the part of the student, and of omnipotence on the part of the teacher. Personal characteristics of both students and supervisors are extremely important. A good supervisory experience is the most likely vehicle for developing those qualities in the student which will, in time, lead him to function most therapeutically.