PARENTMAKING EDUCATORS TRAINING PROGRAM

Teaching parenting education groups is complex and challenging. Parent educators need a training program for themselves that includes practices and feedback deigned to help them learn the specific skills they must use each time they lead a group. To be successful, parent educators must be able to learn how to help members of a group become supportive of each other, learn how to begin to guide a meaningful and focused group discussion, respond to parents' difficult feelings, know how best to present information, teach parents to problem-solve, give advice tailor-made for each individual parent, learn how much to share about yourself, deal successfully with parents who are challenging group members, and know whether and how to refer the more troubled families for additional services. Now there is a program that can be self administered at your site that actually trains parent educators in all of these skills.

Written by Dr. Annye Rothenberg, child/parent psychologist and author of Parentmaking - A Practical Handbook for Teaching Parent Classes about Babies and Toddlers, the Parentmaking Educators Training Program (PETP) provides a 36 plus hour course based on a decade of experience training parent educators. This book and its (optional) three accompanying videotapes provide a comprehensive training program with PARENT EDUCATORS as the "students". The program also provides new information on some of the most important content topics for early childhood parent educators: temperament, limit setting, separation, sleep, and sibling relationships. This training program (PETP) is for use in conjunction with PARENTMAKING - A Practical Handbook, second edition, 1995.

Each of the 18 group leadership skills in this training program manual include a complete faculty presentation with detailed practices. In addition, the handouts and worksheets needed for each section are included along with all the information necessary to teach each topic. The three (optional) accompanying videotapes clearly depict how to provide these useful practices and feedback, demonstrations, and discussions at your own site without having to travel long distances and incur large expenses to receive this training at another location.

Already highly acclaimed by noted child development and psychology colleagues as well as by parenting program directors throughout the U.S., the Parentmaking Educators Training Program provides that specialized training that you've been looking for. It will save you time and money in staff development and improve the quality of your parenting program.The sections can be used individually or in a sequence - as pre-service, in-service or postgraduate training. Many of the sections are also of value to pediatricians, nurses, and childbirth educators, nursery school teachers, day care providers, and mental health clinicians.
 

• 410 Pages and (optional) three two hour VHS format video tapes
• Quality Sewn Paperback
• 8 1/2" x 11"
• ISBN 0-9604620-1-5
• Price $39.95 of manual; price of three videotapes $75.00