Practice Elements: Engagement (With Caregiver; With Child)

Skills building intervention that aims to begin to establish rapport with the parent, to elicit the parent’s perspective regarding the child’s main challenges and goals for improvement, and to identify and reduce practical and psychological barriers to participation.

Practice Elements: Attending

Skills building intervention that aims to increase the amount of positive attention provided to the child, even if the child has misbehaved, at other times during the day. The intervention also aims to teach the caregiver to attend to positive behaviors and to promote the child’s sense of self-worth.

Practice Elements: Assertiveness Training

Skills building intervention that aims to explain the different ways that people relate to one another, to teach youth how to use socially appropriate strategies to express feelings, stand up for themselves, and disagree with others, and to assist youth in practicing situations in which assertive strategies would be appropriate.

Practice Elements: Activity Selection

Skills building intervention that aims to emphasize the link between positive activities and feeling good, to note that doing more things with someone we like is a good way to enjoy activities, and to explain that we can make ourselves busy so that we don’t have time to worry or feel bad.

Philani – Mentor Mother Trainee Manual (2014)

This course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to perform your role as a Mentor Mother. You will learn about various aspects of maternal care during pregnancy, and about infant and child care following birth. You will also learn important counselling and communication skills so that you are able to deal with sensitive and difficult situations in your day to day work. To strengthen your ability to listen to, communicate with, and counsel the women in the communities effectively.

Services Assessment for Children and Adolescents (SACA) (Spanish) – Survey

This survey captures various types of health care services people have received during the past three months. The care services are described as five different types of care that people may have received for each of three areas: physical health, emotional or mental health, and alcohol or drug problems.