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Promoting positive parenting : a professional guide to establishing groupwork programmes for parents of children with behavioural problems / David Neville, Dick Beak and Liz King.

By: Neville, David.
Contributor(s): Beak, Dick | King, Liz | Centre for Fun & Families.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Aldershot, ; Brookfield, Vt. : Arena, 1995Description: xiv, 146 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 185742266X.Subject(s): Centre for Fun & Families | Parenting -- Study and teaching | Problem children -- Behavior modification -- Study and teaching | Parents -- Social networks | Family psychotherapy | Group work in educationDDC classification: 649.1
Contents:
Part I: The background and history of the centre for fun families -- The development of the centre -- Planning a fun and families group -- Part II: The theoretical background -- Empowerment and anti-discriminatory practice -- Social learning theory -- The role of cognitive behavioural theory -- Groupwork skills: giving structure to groups for parents -- Part III: The seven-week fun and families programme -- Understanding behaviour: Sessions 1 and 2 -- Influencing behaviour: Sessions 3 and 4 -- Stress management and self evaluation: Sessions 5, 6 and 7 -- Part IV: Evaluation and parents' support groups -- Evaluation -- Evaluating the centre's results -- Parents' support groups -- Part V: The centre and you: resources and future developments -- How can we help you? -- Future developments.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 649.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00014137
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 649.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00014138
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This guide to positive parenting provides the background and history of the Centre for Fun Families and its seven-week groupwork programme.

"In association with the Centre for Fun & Families"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-146).

Part I: The background and history of the centre for fun families -- The development of the centre -- Planning a fun and families group -- Part II: The theoretical background -- Empowerment and anti-discriminatory practice -- Social learning theory -- The role of cognitive behavioural theory -- Groupwork skills: giving structure to groups for parents -- Part III: The seven-week fun and families programme -- Understanding behaviour: Sessions 1 and 2 -- Influencing behaviour: Sessions 3 and 4 -- Stress management and self evaluation: Sessions 5, 6 and 7 -- Part IV: Evaluation and parents' support groups -- Evaluation -- Evaluating the centre's results -- Parents' support groups -- Part V: The centre and you: resources and future developments -- How can we help you? -- Future developments.

CIT Module PSYC 6005 - Supplemental reading.

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