CHYS 3P26 Chapter 3: Partnerships with Families (Ch. 3)

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 3P26
• Professor: John Mc Namara

Document Summary

Everyday activities, level of engagement, independence, social relationships, family satisfaction with routine, outcomes and order of priority. Promotes awareness, initiates reflective thinking on past actions and future outcomes, suggests alternative methods. Helps families prioritize their and the child"s needs. Supportive map of family connections and support systems, identifies who supports the child, and in what context. Family-centered practice is fundamental in early child intervention. Support system, priorities and needs implementation, intervention, and most importantly family support. Honest, clear, tactful, friendly, and listens to needs of the family. Honouring diversity, valuing the child as a unique individual, nonjudgmental. Availability, accessibility, high expectations for the child, sensitivity to the needs to the family/child, going above and beyond!! Reliability, confidentiality, safety/protection, and decisions in the child"s best interest.