Home Visiting: Procedures for Helping Families - Softcover

Wasik, Barbara Hanna; Bryant, Donna; Lyons, Claudia M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803935420 ISBN 13: 9780803935426

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1990

Synopsis

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the history, research, and practice of home visiting. It includes chapters on the philosophy of home visiting and service programs, particularly those focusing on children. The book also covers specific implementation issues such as hiring home visitors, training, supervision, professional and ethical issues, clinical skills, documentation, and evaluation procedures. Appendices provide sample forms for interviewing home visitors, documenting home visits, and evaluating home visits and visitors. There is also a bibliography of resource materials on a wide range of topics including child abuse, spouse abuse, and child rearing.

About this title

About the Author:

A school/clinical psychologist, Barbara Hanna Wasik holds a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professorship in the School of Education and is a fellow of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. She is also director of the UNC Center for Home Visiting.

Review:

" They have done a superb job of defining the issues of home visiting, addressing the new issues as well as updating previous concerns, and condensing the vast literature into manageable bites. It is well documented, cited, and draws from a wealth of experience and research of the authors."  

"They have done a superb job of defining the issues of home visiting, addressing the new issues as well as updating previous concerns, and condensing the vast literature into manageable bites. It is well documented, cited, and draws from a wealth of experience and research of the authors." -- Mimi A. Graham

"They have done a superb job of defining the issues of home visiting, addressing the new issues as well as updating previous concerns, and condensing the vast literature into manageable bites. It is well documented, cited, and draws from a wealth of experience and research of the authors." --Mimi A. Graham

"They have done a superb job of defining the issues of home visiting, addressing the new issues as well as updating previous concerns, and condensing the vast literature into manageable bites. It is well documented, cited, and draws from a wealth of experience and research of the authors."

--Mimi A. Graham

-They have done a superb job of defining the issues of home visiting, addressing the new issues as well as updating previous concerns, and condensing the vast literature into manageable bites. It is well documented, cited, and draws from a wealth of experience and research of the authors.-

--Mimi A. Graham

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0803935420
• ISBN 13: 9780803935426
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304