Effective Skills for Child-Care Workers: A Training Manual from Boys Town

Effective Skills for Child-Care Workers: A Training Manual from Boys Town

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Book Description
This manual describes a rigorous preservice training program for child-care workers, one that helps them develop authority, autonomy, and accountability. Topics include professionalism issues, principles of behavior, tolerance levels, Preventive, Corrective, and Intensive Teaching techniques, social skill instruction, relationship development, use of motivation systems, problem-solving, and youth rights.

This Girls and Boys Town training model is compared in components and effectiveness to five other child-care treatment models in use. Includes additional references and an index

Effective Skills for Child-Care Workers: A Training Manual from Boys Town,J. Douglas Czyz,Susan E. O'Kane,Amy Elofson,Tom Dowd,Boys Town Press,0938510436,Children,Day Care Centers,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,General,Handbooks, manuals, etc,Health/Fitness,Institutional care,Problem youth,Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare,Social skills,Study and teaching,Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning,Child welfare,Family & Health

Book Contents:

1. El sendero del mago
2. Everyday Parents Raising Great Kids
3. Experience of Parenting, The
4. Families : What Makes Them Work
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6. Family Ethnicity : Strength in Diversity
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8. Fatherwise : 101 Tips for a New Father
9. Fierce Communion : Family and Community in Early America (Harvard Historical Studies)
10. Fifteen Centuries of Children's Literature: An Annotated Chronology of British and American Works in Historical Context

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