Coaching in Home Visiting

Supporting Better Outcomes for Professionals and Families

Christa D. Haring, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Angela Rau, MAT

Early Childhood

The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. Use the companion workbook to help translate big ideas into daily practice—building a coaching framework that strengthens relationships, promotes equity, and improves outcomes for families and staff alike.

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Featuring a who’s who of more than 25 interdisciplinary experts, this book goes far beyond “one and done” approaches to training and illuminates the benefits of supported practice, follow-up, and reflection. Readers will learn how to:

• Make the most of parallel practices, in which the best strategies coaches use to partner with coachees are also used by home visitors to partner with caregivers
• Use both reflective supervision and practice-based coaching to enhance work with families
• Apply the principles of adult learning to build respectful and reciprocal coaching relationships
• Implement research-informed coaching strategies that promote well-being for home visitors and families
• Ensure culturally responsive home visiting at both the systems level and the individual home visitor level
• Deliver engaging and effective virtual coaching to both home visitors and families
• Collaborate with early intervention providers to support families who have children with disabilities
• Use coaching to increase and monitor fidelity to evidence-based programs and practices

Perfect for use as a professional development resource or a preservice textbook, this transformative book will help both supervisors and practitioners excel in their roles and improve the lives of children and families.

Reviews

Brad Richardson, Ph.D., University of Iowa School of Social Work; National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice - June 7, 2024

Unlike any other resource, this book provides a comprehensive toolkit, revealing the key to unlocking positive change for families through coaching. The authors empower home visitors to build trust, continually improve practice, and achieve outcomes with families through a comprehensive range of skill-based, practice-based, and performance-based techniques . . . this book is more than a manual; it is a catalyst for positive change in home visiting.

Angela Tomlin, Ph.D., HSPP, IMH-E®, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Stephan A. Viehweg, ACSW, LCSW, IMH-E® (IV), Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana LEND Program - June 7, 2024

Gathers together top researchers in the field of home visiting to consider the evidence base for supporting the home visiting workforce through coaching . . . This welcome book clarifies how relationship powers both the professional development of the workforce and the skills of caregivers.

Authors: Christa D. Haring Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Angela Rau MAT
Foreword Authors: Mark S. Innocenti Ph.D., Lori A. Roggman Ph.D.
Contributors: Kimberly Allen Ph.D., BCC, CFL, Lori Bass Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Rebecca S. Beegle M.Ed., Joanne Bielecki Ph.D., Michaela Cotner M.A., Arshya Gurbani M.A., Mary Louise Hemmeter Ph.D., Adam Holland Ph.D., Hyun-Joo Jeon Ph.D., Susan Killmeyer Ph.D., Jon Korfmacher Ph.D., Debbie Kruenegel-Farr Ph.D., Anne Larson Ph.D., Matt Lyons Ph.D., Margaret E. Machara Ph.D., CFLE, Patricia H. Manz Ph.D., Patty Marickovich M.S.Ed., Rihana S. Mason Ph.D., Kimberly Meunier M.B.A., Oluwatobi Mogbojuri D.V.M.,, Nicole Pyle Ph.D., Mollie Ramano Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Shannon Self-Brown Ph.D., Joseph Sparling Ph.D., Dorian Traube Ph.D., Bridget A. Walsh Ph.D., Daniel J. Whitaker Ph.D.

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