How You Are Is as Important as What You Do

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This popular book presents a series of vignettes, dialogues, and brief scenarios which can be used in group care for infants and toddlers and in home-visiting programs. The materials illustrate the overall theme that how parents and professionals interact with babies and young children, and with each other, contributes as much to the quality of the relationships involved and to the developmental outcome as what is done in the interaction.

A 5-step process is outlined for using these materials in training, through analysis, discussion, reflection, and integration of concepts and strategies into direct work. Specific sections are designed for high-quality reproduction, for example, as handouts in training and other educational programs.