Home Visiting: Procedures for Helping Families

Looking for a resource that provides you with essential information on the management of home visiting? One that covers the clinical skills and professional issues that are directly relevant to home based intervention, and the complexities one might likely encounter when providing services in the home? Based on information gathered from Project CARE and the Infant Health and Development Program, Home Visiting provides home visitors with a broad orientation to their work, covering the history of home visiting, its philosophy, and current practices. Topics included in this comprehensive volume are hiring home visitors, training models, supervision, professional and ethical issues, clinical skills, documentation and evaluation procedures.

Home Visiting is appropriate for those training to be home visitors, in-service home visitors, supervisors, and directors of home visiting programs serving a wide range of families.

"Though home visiting is both an old tradition and a new initiative, until now little has been written specifically for home visitors. This book, through its comprehensive presentation of relevant issues and procedures, provides a firmer foundation for the field to move forward."

--from the foreword by Richard N. Roberts, Utah State University

"This volume is at the top of my recommended reading list for those who plan and carry out family support programs in the home. Its blend of scholarship and practical experience will be invaluable to students, administrators, and researchers. In addition to presenting helpful chapters on the history and philosophy of home visiting, this book analyzes important issues in home-visitation methods, such as developing helpful skills, addressing the needs of high-risk families, and managing home visits."

--David L. Olds, University of Rochester Medical Center

"Whether serving as a mental health or rehabilitation counselor, intermittent or regularly scheduled home visits may often provide the counselor with additional data to assist in understanding client′s needs and responses to counseling interventions. Many of the issues, procedures, and suggestions contained in HomeVisiting pertain to situations confronted by the counselor."

--The Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling

"This book answers a need for practical information on home visiting issues and procedures for both beginning and experienced home visitors from a variety of backgrounds, whether professionally trained or not."

--American Journal of Public Health

"A practical, comprehensive, thoughtful, easy-reading guide to (almost) everything you want or need to know about home visiting programs, planning, procedures, and principles. All three authors are affiliated with major national child development programs. Together they bring a multidisciplinary perspective to this book."

--Community Alternatives

"This timely book presents extensive information about process and issues related to home visiting with families . . . . The book is easy-to-read . . . . The references are a rich resource for the reader . . . . The blend of scholarship and practical methods make this book useful to students, practitioners, administrators and researchers."

--Ann M. Schorfheide, RN, Ph.D., School of Nursing, University of Kansas

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.