Caregivers Of Young Children

Author : Jean Hunleth
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813588057
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children as Caregivers written by Jean Hunleth and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children’s care is crucial for global health policy. Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of the young as well as adults, Jean Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. She shows how children actively seek to “get closer” to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as attentiveness of the young to adults’ physical needs, the ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity. Children understand that losing their guardians will not only be emotionally devastating, but that such loss is likely to set them adrift in Zambian society, where education and advancement depend on maintaining familial, reciprocal relationships. View a gallery of images from the book (https://www.flickr.com/photos/childrenascaregivers)

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309493382
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vibrant and Healthy Kids written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are the foundation of the United States, and supporting them is a key component of building a successful future. However, millions of children face health inequities that compromise their development, well-being, and long-term outcomes, despite substantial scientific evidence about how those adversities contribute to poor health. Advancements in neurobiological and socio-behavioral science show that critical biological systems develop in the prenatal through early childhood periods, and neurobiological development is extremely responsive to environmental influences during these stages. Consequently, social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors significantly affect a child's health ecosystem and ability to thrive throughout adulthood. Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity builds upon and updates research from Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017) and From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (2000). This report provides a brief overview of stressors that affect childhood development and health, a framework for applying current brain and development science to the real world, a roadmap for implementing tailored interventions, and recommendations about improving systems to better align with our understanding of the significant impact of health equity.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309388570
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Author : Jean Barbre
Publisher : Redleaf Press
ISBN 13 : 1605542636
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Responsive Caregiving written by Jean Barbre and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the development of infants, toddlers, and twos equips caregivers with the tools and best practices needed to guide, teach, and care for them. This foundational approach provides information on theories of early development, components of high-quality, responsive caregiving, and strategies to support children in their earliest years.

Author : Derry G. Koralek
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788116657
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caregivers of Young Children written by Derry G. Koralek and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to be used with A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: A Basic Manual, which provides the foundation for all community prevention, identification, and treatment efforts. Intended to be used by early childhood education professional in a variety of settings and programs, including: Head Start; private and public day care; part-day and school-based early childhood; before and after school programs for school-aged children; family child care homes and networks; and child care resource and referral agencies. Six charts, glossary, bibliography, and list of resources.

Author : Nettie Becker
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 0398083347
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR CAREGIVERS IN DAY-CARE SETTINGS written by Nettie Becker and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of people in our country today acknowledge the fact that there is an enormous crisis in the field of early child care. The first chapter of this book examines the major reasons for the crisis and why the economic reality for most American households will cause the problem to continue to grow in the coming years. Following this, the second chapter discusses the criteria of a good early child care setup, based on professional literature in the field and the author's experience. The remainder of the book addresses the serious problem that most day-care workers are very poorly trained for their jobs. Six chapters are devoted to providing a practical guide for people who work with young children. They discuss, from current research in the field but without using technical language, current practical methods of working with children-at-risk or those who may potentially be at-risk. The focus is on working with children in groups, helping day-care workers and substitute parents to minimize or remediate the at-risk factor in the children in their care. The book also addresses parents of these children and emphasizes the need for cooperation between day-care workers and them so that child care providers can effectively convey the skills presented here. There is also a chapter on approaches to working with special children, such as children with autism, and those with physical or neurological impairments. This informative and sensitive book will be useful in advancing the training of workers in infant and early child care settings.

Author : John Ronald Lally
Publisher : Zero to Three
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups written by John Ronald Lally and published by Zero to Three. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular guide is designed to help caregivers, program directors, coordinators, administrators, trainers, licensors, families and leaders in the field of early care and education recognize the special knowledge and skills needed to offer a nurturing group care environment to very young children. Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups provides assistance in meeting the needs of each individual child; recognizing early developmental stages; achieving necessary health and safety standards; creating good relationships; developing draining and mentoring programs; linking with other community-based service systems; providing continuity of care; and being sensitive to cultural and linguistic needs.

Author : Karen Dahlberg Vander Ven
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780866565318
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competent Caregivers--competent Children written by Karen Dahlberg Vander Ven and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to design, develop, and implement good quality education and training programs! Competent Caregivers--Competent Children provides a thorough overview of the design and delivery of effective training and education for practitioners in the field of child and youth care. Some of the leading authorities in the profession, including Henry Maier, James Anglin, and Roy Ferguson, combine conceptual approaches with practical guidelines to produce workable strategies that insure the best preparation for caregivers. In this crucial resource for child care professionals, chapters focus on: the achievements of the child care field thus far, and the internal barriers that block its ongoing development the skills entry level and experienced child care practitioners need, and strategies for developing a content and format that will focus on these needs the models that have been used successfully to deliver programs to child care practitioners in a variety of settings, in a broad range of geographic areas For all who educate and train child care practitioners, and for those who employ them as members of a professional staff, Competent Caregivers--Competent Children is a highly valuable book.

Author : Janet Gonzalez-Mena
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers written by Janet Gonzalez-Mena and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/