Training
Positive Parenting 1
This course explores three types of positive parenting techniques: encouragement, cooperation, tracking behavior
| Course Duration | 2 credit hours |
| Course Delivery | Self-Directed, Online |
| Course Provider | Foster Parent College |
| Course Type | Self-Directed, Online |
In this class, host Sarada Thomas introduces three positive parenting techniques: Cooperation, or making effective requests; Tracking problem behaviors; and Encouragement, or rewarding desirable behaviors. The class includes ideas for dealing with children who resist positive parenting techniques.
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- describe the key components of effective requests
- know why and how to track problem behaviors
- explain how to encourage good behaviors
- understand when it is time to alter your strategy
Course Details
Resource Files
Upcoming Events: Positive Parenting 1
No upcoming course events at this time.
Related Courses
Taking Things - Stealing
This class explores common reasons for taking things including: experimentation, intellectual disability, trauma history, social or psychiatric problems
Working with Birth Parents: Visitation
This course explores different aspects related to visitations with birth parents: coping with frustration, supporting the foster child after the visit, cancellations and no-shows, working with caseworkers and custodians, pre-visit anxiety
Child Safety & Supervision
This course presents strategies for safe and appropriate supervision including: pre-placement interviewing; safety plan development; in-home observations and adjustments; being a childcare team member
Noncompliance and Defiance
This class explores the spectrum of behaviors associated with cooperation and noncompliance, including: fearful compliance, cooperation, noncompliance, defiance
