The Health and Wellness Program
A Parenting Curriculum for Families at Risk
By Alexander J. Tymchuk, Ph.D.



Ideal for psychologists, nurses, social workers, home visitors, parent educators, and others who work with families at risk, this complete program gives professionals everything they need to support parents with a wide range of disabilities or learning challenges as they learn about child health and safety. The only validated program developed for use with this often overlooked population, this well-established curriculum from a respected expert offers effective, proven strategies tested for more than 30 years with over 800 families.

Professionals will get a program manual with background information on parents with disabilities, guidance on establishing a program and assessing parents’ skills, overviews of what to teach in parent education programs, and assessment tools with clear instructions and illustrations. To ensure learning, the program includes 18 printable workbook-style handouts to give to parents, each using clear, simple language and realistic colored illustrations to teach critical skills such as

• recognizing symptoms of common child health problems
  
  
• taking a child’s temperature and pulse
  
  
• identifying and eliminating fire, electrical, and cooking hazards
  
  
• making good health and safety decisions
  
  
• creating a comprehensive home safety plan
  
  
• reading medicine labels and following the instructions accurately
  
  
• preventing emergencies and learning how to respond if one occurs

Professionals can print an unlimited quantity of the handouts (including the illustrations) from the included CD-ROM, which also features supplementary resources such as additional assessment devices, terms and definitions, information on the program’s validation, and research on mothers with cognitive impairments. Effective for use with many different populations — including low-income parents, teen parents, individuals with disabilities, and parents with mental illness — this program helps professionals fully prepare families to protect and ensure their children’s health, safety, and wellness.

Contents of the Accompanying CD-ROM
About the Author
Foreword
John R. Lutzker

Foreword
Ruth Luckasson

Preface
Acknowledgments

I: INTRODUCTION

1. Background and Overview
   

II: IMPLEMENTING A HEALTH & WELLNESS PROGRAM

2. Getting Started
   
3. Obtaining Background Information
   

The UCLA Parenting Reading Recognition Scale Form 1
The UCLA Parenting Reading Recognition Scale Form 2
The UCLA Parenting Reading Comprehension Scale
Child Injury Environmental Analysis Form
Child Injury Prevention Form
Identification of Child Injury Chains of Antecedents
Identification of Child Injury Chains of Consequences
Health and Safety Report Forms
Health and Safety Weekly Update Log
Safety (Injury or Near Injury) Report Form
Specific Parenting Plan
Parent Satisfaction Survey

4. Fundamental Knowledge and Skills for Parents
   
5. Understanding Child Development
   

III: HEALTH EDUCATION: INFANT AND CHILD HEALTH CARE AND WELL-BEING

6. Rationale for the Health Education Component
   
7. Health Education Component Assessment and Curriculum Materials
   
8. Details of the Health Education Sessions
   

IV: HOME SAFETY

9. Rationale for the Home Safety Component
   
10. Home Safety Component Assessment and Curriculum Materials
    Appendix: Formatting Parent Materials
    
11. Details of the Home Safety Sessions
    

Bibliography
Index