ERIC Number: ED671490
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar-28
Pages: 240
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ISBN: 978-0-8077-8654-3
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Getting to Know You: Lessons in Early Relational Health from Infants and Caregivers
Claudia M. Gold
Teachers College Press
This user-friendly guide uses narrative storytelling to describes the principles of early relational health with direct application to day-to-day work with infants and parents. Practitioners on the front lines often feel great pressure to know "what to do" in a wide range of challenging situations. Drawing on both developmental science and extensive clinical experience, Dr. Gold provides evidence that the exact opposite--a stance of not-knowing--helps us find our way into another person's experience, offering the greatest opportunity for connection, growth, and healing. Gold presents a model of "listening in" with an intentional suspension of expectations and a willingness to be surprised. The paradigm of listening in functions as a kind of superpower to enhance teacher-student, professional-parent, and parent-infant relationships. "Getting to Know You" is important reading for a broad variety of practitioners working with infants, including early childhood educators, home visitors, pediatricians, doulas, and mental health clinicians, as well as policymakers, parents, and other caregivers. Book Features: (1) Summarizes the key advances in our understanding of brain science, child development, and infant-parent mental health; (2) Emphasizes lessons from real-life interactions between infants and caregivers as communicated through detailed clinical vignettes; and (3) Offers practitioners a model for listening that is rooted in the concept of cultural humility and the idea that even in sameness there is difference.
Descriptors: Infants, Parents, Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Professional Personnel, Allied Health Personnel, School Personnel, Child Development, Mental Health, Interaction, Listening, Cultural Awareness
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Publication Type: Books; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Audience: Practitioners; Policymakers; Parents
Language: English
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