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BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT COURSE FOR A GROUP OF MOTHERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COURSE SETTING FOR EFFECTIVE USE OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Author(s) -
MILLER ANDY,
ELLIS JOYCE
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1980.tb00806.x
Subject(s) - course (navigation) , psychology , medical education , orientation (vector space) , developmental psychology , medicine , engineering , geometry , mathematics , aerospace engineering
Summary Many parents experience difficulty in managing aspects of their young children's behaviour; and yet personnel with the psychological skills to resolve these problems are only available to a small proportion of parents, usually after a period of serious escalation of the difficulties. This article describes an attempt to make economical use of an educational psychologist's time by providing a short course for a volunteer group of mothers whose children attended a pre‐school group. The educational orientation of the centre is shown to facilitate the transmission of the required skills and knowledge to the mothers, suggesting both a desirable form of organization for such centres and a specific activity which could profitably take place within them.