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Counseling In Allied Health Techniques Of Instruction: A Career Process, Robert David Mills
Counseling In Allied Health Techniques Of Instruction: A Career Process, Robert David Mills
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A Professional Paper on "Techniques of Instruction" as seen through the eyes of this writer, to Portland State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Education.
Group Parent Training In Oregon, John Peter Kuzma
Group Parent Training In Oregon, John Peter Kuzma
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Research examining the actual practice and methods of group parent trainers has not kept pace with the great amount of literature on "how-to-parent" theory. In this study, 23 group parent trainees throughout the Willamette Valley in Oregon were interviewed to determine the characteristics of their groups in terms of numbers of parents in each group, length of groups, fees charged, teaching methods used, parenting approaches taught. Their general concerns and opinions about the parent training field were also elicited.
The support aspects of the parent groups were recognized as integral to parent training's effectiveness. The organizational structure of the groups …
The First Years Of Life: A Comparative Analysis Of British And American Parent Education, Deborah Anne Smith Guisti, Ellen Turner Jurevic, Jane Elizabeth Mozena, David W. Pedersen
The First Years Of Life: A Comparative Analysis Of British And American Parent Education, Deborah Anne Smith Guisti, Ellen Turner Jurevic, Jane Elizabeth Mozena, David W. Pedersen
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The purpose of our study is to analyze a British parent education program called "The First Years of Life" and compare it with some programs and educational services of similar content in America. We hope to ascertain whether "The First Years of Life," as presented by the Open University, affords a better means of providing information than some programs now existent in the United States offering prenatal and parent education.