TWENTY-THIRTY HOURS

An In-Service, Self-Instructional Training Program for Foster Families

(2009)

Revised and re-issued in a loose-leaf binder, TWENTY HOURS provides a twenty topical-chaptered text offering in-service instruction on twenty issues common to the fostering experience. The skills-based content of each chapter is equivalent to material covered during one hour of face-to-face training. TWENTY HOURS may be used as the text in group instruction or as independent study; the Appendix includes a self-test for each chapter which can serve as a mail-in for training credit. Complimentary Certificates of Completion are provided with each ten or more texts. The loose-leaf binder format permits inserting additional reference or topical information. The 20 chapters are:

  1. Introduction to Communication
  2. Communication: Traditional Responses
  3. Communication: Effective Responding Skills
  4. Communication: Effectively Expressing Your Thoughts, Feelings & Needs
  5. Discipline: Defining Discipline
  6. Discipline: Negative & Ineffective Discipline
  7. Discipline: Positive Discipline
  8. Discipline: A Problem-Solving Approach
  9. Managing Behavioral Emergencies
  10. Helping Children Manage Anger
  11. Children & Drinking Problems
  12. Working With Biological Parents
  13. Kids & T.V.
  14. Stress Management
  15. The Gifted Child in Foster Care
  16. The Case Against Corporal Punishment
  17. The Role of Foster Parents: Members of a Professional Team
  18. Helping Children in Care Make Peace With Their Past
  19. Helping Children in Care Improve Their Self-Esteem
  20. Helping Children in Care Overcome Obstacles to Independence

#6059 TWENTY HOURS: loose-leaf notebook, standard 8.5" X 11" drilled format, binder is included.
$19.95 Ea., 10 copies+- $17.00 Ea.; 50+ - $14.00 Ea.

Each pack of ten, or more, workbooks is shipped with a complimentary packet of Certificates of Completion, one for each workbook.

#6060 THIRTY HOURS: In-Service, Self-Instructional Training Program for Foster Families

(2008)

The new THIRTY HOURS adds ten additional "hours." The skills-based content of each chapter is equivalent to material covered during one hour of face-to-face training. THIRTY may be used as the text in group instruction or as independent study; the Appendix includes a self-test for each chapter which can serve as a mail-in for training credit. Complimentary Certificates of Completion are provided with each ten or more texts. The loose-leaf binder format permits inserting additional reference or topical information. The additional ten chapters are:

21. Angry Kids
22. Building Positive Self Esteem
23. Choosing Friends Wisely
24. A Handful of Hope and a Truckload of Work
25. Caring For The Care-giver
26. On Lying
27. Understanding Power Relationships
28. Avoiding the My Kid/Their Kid Trap: Tips for the Foster Family
29. School and Learning and the Foster Child
30. School and Learning: Tips for the Foster Parent

#6060 THIRTY HOURS: loose-leaf notebook, standard 8.5" X 11" drilled format, binder is included.
$24.95 Ea., 10 copies+- $22.00 Ea.; 50+ - $19.00 Ea.

#6058 TWENTY-THIRTY HOURS: TRAINER'S GUIDE

(2008)

The TWENTY-THIRTY HOURS: TRAINER'S GUIDE provides:

  • a set of printed overhead transparency masters, plus a CD with the masters in PowerPoint formatand a certificate of completion in .pdf;
  • a set of self-test answer masters for the thirty chapters;
  • and a text copy of the THIRTY HOURS manual.

#6058 TEN-TWENTY-THIRTY HOURS: TRAINER'S GUIDE $65.00 Each.

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