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| About the Author | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Credits | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Approach | |
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| Overview of Topics | |
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| Home Visiting: The Basics | |
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| The Parent-Home Visitor Relationship | |
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| Cultural Sensitivity and Recognition | |
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| Bilingual Families | |
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| Forming the Parent-Home Visitor Relationship | |
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| Progression of the Parent-Home Visitor Relationship | |
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| Establishing Reciprocal, Positive Feelings Between Parents and Home Visitors: A Personal Relationship | |
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| Shared Delight in the Child | |
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| Grandparents | |
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| Fathers | |
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| Working with Pregnant Mothers and Their Families | |
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| Home Visitors' Relationship with Teen Parents | |
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| Mothers and Childbearing Daughters | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Home Visitor's Approach | |
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| Communication and Interpersonal Skills | |
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| Essential Knowledge and Skills | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Home Visitor's Professional Development | |
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| Education | |
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| Supervision | |
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| Peer Mentoring: A Program Example | |
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| Assessment and Evaluation | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Promoting Healthy Parent and Child Development | |
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| Developing a Sense of Self: The Foundation of Social and Emotional Development | |
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| Neurophysiology | |
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| Developing the Body Self: Birth to 6 Months | |
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| The Autonomous Self: 7-18 Months | |
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| The Social Self: 19 Months to 3 Years | |
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| The Narrative Self: 3-5 Years | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Guidance and Discipline | |
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| Guidance and Discipline | |
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| A Developmental Approach | |
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| Early Infancy: Birth to 8 Months | |
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| Late Infancy: 8-17 Months | |
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| Toddlerhood: 18 Months to 3 Years | |
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| Late Toddlerhood: 3-5 Years | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Communication and Language | |
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| Communication and Language | |
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| Prespeech: Birth to 10 Months | |
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| Emergence of First Words and Jargon: 10-15 Months | |
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| Word Combinations: 16 Months to 2 Years | |
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| Telling Stories: 2-5 Years | |
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| Emerging Literacy | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Play, Learning, and Development | |
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| Birth to 12 Months | |
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| 12-30 Months | |
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| 30 Months to 5 Years | |
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| Electronic Play | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Everyday Rituals and Celebrations | |
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| Patterns of Mutuality | |
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| Family Celebrations and Traditions | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Children's Illnesses | |
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| Caregiving as a Social Experience | |
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| Illnesses and Medical Conditions | |
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| Developmental Importance of Illness | |
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| Serious Illness | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Siblings | |
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| New Children | |
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| Parental Expectations and Comparisons | |
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| Valuing Different Children | |
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| Sibling Relationships | |
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| Discipline | |
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| Large Families | |
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| Only Children | |
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| Balancing the Home Visitor's Interactions | |
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| Difficulties and Dilemmas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Psychologically Vulnerable Family | |
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| Marital/Partnership Discord and Divorce | |
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| Mental Illness | |
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| Substance Abuse | |
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| Domestic and Community Violence | |
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| The Resilient Child | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Person and Profession | |
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| Personal History-Professional Competence | |
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| Janice | |
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| Cynthia | |
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| Childhood Pain to Professional Competence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Resources | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |