Brookes Publishing Company Pathways to Competence for Young Children: A Parenting Program

This affordable and versatile program was developed in the mid-1990s for parents of aggressive and noncompliant children. However, the program has also been used with parents involved with child protective services, mothers who have experienced spousal abuse, and parents interested in learning more about child development. It is designed as a 20-week program covering the same ten social and emotional topics as the book ""Pathways to Competence: Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children"". The program manual includes instructions for conducting the sessions, handouts for parents, and suggested activities. The CD-ROM contains a sample brochure, sample advertisement, attendance sheet, parent consent and childcare registration form, childcare questionnaires, diagrams of four parenting roles, competency cards, parent certification form, and certificate of completion. The book ""Pathways to Competence"" was written after studies had been conducted on the success of this parenting program. It is strongly recommended that program leaders use this book as a reference. Review A valuable resource that needs to be made available widely to service providers, educators, students, social marketers, researchers, policy makers and parents. - Patrick Schwarz, Ph.D., National-Louis University About the Author Sarah Landy is Head of the Infant and Preschool Program at the Hincks Centre for Children's Mental Health and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Psychology. Elizabeth Thompson is Medical Education Coordinator for the Child Development Center at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and a faculty member at the University of Toronto.