Elterngespräche Schritt für Schritt

Matthias Paul Krause

Parent interviews Step by Step
Practice Manual for Kindergartens and Early Learning Programmes

(Elterngespräche Schritt für Schritt. Praxisbuch für Kindergarten und Frühförderung)

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To be published approx. October 2009
Approx. 240 pp. approx. 15 illustrations
List price approx. 24.90 Euro
(978-3-497-02105-5) paperback

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Good Cooperation through optimal Communication Skills

• Talking with partents about problem of their children in an empathetic way
• For early learning facilities and Kindergartens
• Interview samples with various answers

Opening up perspectives, telling about observations, discuss about educating behaviour and initialising change processes – specialists working at Kindergartens and early learning facilities face great challenges in giving advice to and informing parents. Parents expect much of them, they are bearers of hope, but also points of attack in cases where difficulties occur. Successful interviews enable to establish a relation to the parents characterised by trust, constructive work and sensible cooperation. The author has many years of experience under his belt and makes use of many sample dialogues and question-and-answers alternatives to show how good conversation skills can improve the cooperation with the parents.

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Target groups
Educators, people working at early learning facilities, therapists in training and practice as well as specialists from the fields of physiotherapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy working at early learning facilities and Kindergartens and who give advice to parents. Students of social and special pedagogics, psychology and medical science who wish to prepare themselves to talking with parents of children with developmental disorders.

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The author
Dr. Matthias Paul Krause, graduate psych., psycho therapist (GwG, DAGG) and supervisor (BDP), works at the “Kinderneurologisches Zentrum der Rheinischen Kliniken Bonn“ and teaches at the universities in Cologne and Bonn.