Home Visiting: Promoting Healthy Parent and Child Development

This handbook for home visitors provides functional, field-tested techniques for enhancing parent and child development. Specific examples drawn from actual home visits complement enlightening discussions of issues such as how to teach parents about their child's development, what to do when parents or children are unresponsive or unwilling to cooperate, and how to use personal strengths to reinforce the parent-home visitor relationship.

Written from a multidisciplinary perspective and incorporating more than 20 years of experience and research, this essential book is a daily-use reference for educators, nurses, social workers, therapists, and anyone involved with home visiting.

In her long career, Carol S. Klass, Ph.D. has taught college, worked as an early intervention specialist and mental health consultant, and served as a field-based mentor of early educators. She has designed and directed two early intervention programs for high-needs young children, and three professional development programs for ealry childhood educators. Dr. Klass has used ethnographic action research to improve her own practice and the practice of the early educators with whom she works.