Art and Practice of Home Visiting (eBook)

For more than a decade, The Art and Practice of Home Visiting has been a goto guide for effective, culturally sensitive home visits with young children and families. Now reframed as a textbook for a new generation of home visitors, this second edition includes studentfriendly features, downloadable course companion materials, and fresh content on timely topics.Presenting a collaborative, familycentered approach to home visiting, Cook and Sparks prepare preservice professionals to form respectful and productive partnerships with caregivers and help each unique family reach their specific goals. Future home visitors will get practical, indepth guidance on all the complex issues theyll face in their work with families and children, including implementing evidencebased practice providing traumainformed care and addressing challenges with sleep, feeding, and behavior.A foundational text for future professionalsand an ideal source of wisdom and guidance for inservice practitionersthis book will help all home visitors master the art and practice of effective home visiting with todays diverse families.WHATS NEWNew student-friendly features: Learning Outcomes and ReadReflectDiscuss Questions in each chapter, case studies, chapter summaries, and a glossaryExpanded focus on all home visitors working with children with and without disabilitiesNew and updated content on critical topics, such as resolving barriers to successful home visits and working with culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse familiesExpanded table of contents for easy navigationIncreased focus on familycentered home visiting and the home visitor as a collaborative coach and partner for the familyA complete package of downloadable companion materials for facultyONLINE COMPANION MATERIALS Faculty members will easily integrate this book into their courses with the online companion materials, including a sample syllabus, test bank, and PowerPoint outlines.TOPICS COVERED history of home visiting collaboration with diverse families formal and informal assessment evidence-based intervention trauma-informed care and the pandemic the structure of effective home visits facilitation of caregiver-child relationships family empowerment interpreters and translators cross-cultural conflicts legal, ethical, and personal safety concerns common challenges such as sleep, feeding, and behavior different types of families, including military families, teenage parents, and immigrant families children with specific disorders, such as autism, Down syndrome, and motor challenges