Lori A. Roggman – författare

When parents are warm, responsive, encouraging, and communicative - the key elements of developmental parenting - they lay the foundation for young children's school readiness, social competence, and mental health. That's why every early childhood professional needs this comprehensive, practical guide to building a developmental parenting program for the families they serve. Unlike other approaches that limit parents to a 'student' role, the proven, the parenting-focused model in this book shows home visitors how to put parents and other caregivers confidently in charge of guiding and supporting their young children's development.This work helps home visitors and other early childhood professionals to learn the ABCs of facilitating developmental parenting: Attitudes - be responsive, supportive, flexible, and culturally sensitive while looking for the family's strengths and building on them; Behaviors - actively encourage positive parent-child interaction, support developmental parenting behaviors, establish a collaborative partnership with parents, use family activities as learning opportunities, and involve other family members; and, Content - provide parents with clear and relevant information on child development, determine the best curricula for selecting and adapting parent-child activities, and learn to use assessments skillfully to evaluate child progress and parenting behaviors. This how-to guidebook includes all the support early childhood professionals need to facilitate developmental parenting effectively. Program directors will get step-by-step guidance on supervising and evaluating the program, and professionals who work directly with parents will get easy-to-implement strategies, case studies of successful interactions, and tips and advice from other practitioners. With this research-based and reader-friendly book, early childhood professionals will learn to put parents in charge of guiding their child's development - resulting in strong parent-child bonds, healthy families, and improved school readiness.

Where are parents' skills the strongest—and how can they be encouraged to better support young children's cognitive, social, and language development? Home visitors can find out in minutes with PICCOLO™, the quick, reliable observational tool designed to assess and monitor the quality of parent–child interactions. Developed for use with parents of children ages 1 to 3, PICCOLO™ measures 29 developmentally supportive parenting behaviours in 4 critical domains—Affection, Responsiveness, Encouragement, and Teaching. It's the best way to assess which parenting behaviours are working, develop individualised interventions that help parents improve, and track the positive outcomes of your parent support programme. Why PICCOLO™?Research-based—assesses parenting behaviours with direct, proven links to positive child outcomesQuick, clear, and easy to use—takes just 10 minutes for parent–child observationHighly reliable—based on 4,500 video observations of 2,000 diverse familiesTraining DVD includes 16 invaluable DVD clips of parent–child interactions to help you practice observing and scoringCulturally sensitive and relevantReady to use anytime: at program entry, throughout the year, and at program exitHelps you provide positive feedback to parents and plan interventionGreat way to monitor parent/child outcomes and program effectivenessSpanish translation includedThis package consists of 25 4-page forms.

Essential for programmes using the PICCOLO™, this training DVD includes a 64-minute narrated presentation and 14 invaluable DVD clips of parent–child interactions to help users practice observing and scoring. The introductory presentation explains the 4 PICCOLO domains (Affection, Responsiveness, Encouragement, and Teaching), describes how each domain is important for child development, and walks the viewer through each of the 29 items on the tool. Viewers also learn which types of activities work best for observations, how to talk to a family about the observation, guidelines for video recording, and how to use results to help plan home visits. The DVD includes 13 clips of English-speaking families—4 1-minute clips, 4 5-minute clips, and 5 10-minute clips. Three clips of Spanish-speaking families (1 1-minute clip, 1 5-minute clip, and 1 10-minute clip) are also provided. Programmes can use these clips in staff training to ensure reliable use of the PICCOLO. A scoring key for each clip with rationale is included in the PICCOLO User's Guide. This DVD is part of the PICCOLO, a quick and reliable observation tool for measuring parent–child interactions.