Messages From Home: The Parent-Child Home Program For Overcoming Educational Disadvantage

by Phyllis Levenstein, Susan Levenstein

Overview

The Parent-Child Home Program, a pre-preschool home visiting program, has grown greatly since the first edition of Messages from Home was published in 1988. This expanded and updated edition shows the continued success of this program-spearheaded by the late Phyllis Levenstein-which prepares at-risk children for school success, overcoming educational disadvantage.

Since The Parent-Child Home Program was founded in the 1960s, it has enriched the cognitive, social, and emotional school readiness of tens of thousands of children. The Program's methods, its theoretical underpinnings, and its impressive results are presented in detail. The success stories of both parents and children make inspiring reading. The combination of lively writing and data-driven scientific rigor give it both broad appeal and academic relevance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592136780
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	09/18/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	661 KB

About the Author

Phyllis Levenstein, Ed.D. (1916-2005), founded The Parent-Child Home Program in 1965. She was its Executive Director until 1997, after which she continued to work as the Program's Senior Investigator and as a clinical psychologist in private practice. Edward Zigler, the father of Head Start, describes her as "an icon" of the field of early childhood intervention, and Hillary Clinton has called her one of the United States' "finest child advocates innovators, and clinicians."

Susan Levenstein, M.D., is a primary care internist practicing in Rome, Italy, and a clinical researcher. She has published widely on the interactions between psychological and physiological factors in disease, and has collaborated with her mother on studies of The Parent-Child Home Program.

Table of Contents

Parent-Child Home Program Chronology
Foreword (by Kathryn Barnard)   
Co-Author's Preface (by Susan Levenstein)
Prologue To The Second Edition (by Phyllis Levenstein)
Introduction
Chapter 1.  Two Mothers, Two Children: Program Participants
Chapter 2. Poverty in the 21st Century:  Parental Love Fights Back   
Chapter 3.  "Show, Not Tell":  The Parent-Child Home Program Method
Chapter 4.  Underpinnings:  The Theory Behind The Parent-Child Home Program   
Chapter 5.  How Effective Is The Parent-Child Home Program?
Chapter 6.  Methodological Issues in Intervention Research:  Lessons From The Parent-Child Home Program Experience
Chapter 7.  From Laboratory To Real World:  Successful Replication of a Successful Intervention
Chapter 8.  Preventing a Dream From Becoming a Nightmare: The Ethics of Home Visiting Programs
Chapter 9.  Ludic Literacy:  Prelude To Instrumental Literacy
Chapter 10.  Messages From Home:  Meditations And Conclusions
 Chapter 11.  The Parent-Child Home Program In Writing:  Publications By and About the Program, 1968-2007
References Cited
Appendix.  Outcome Measures Created By The Parent-Child Home Program