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Best Buy!
To get the most for your money, start with th e Temperament Talk
Class Kit, containing a Leader's Guide, 6 parent worktexts and 7 posters -- everything you
need to run a class at your facility!
All for $275.00. You'll have your Leader's Guide, so for subsequent classes, just
re-order parent manuals at $18.95.
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Parent Educator Jean Illsely Clarke proclaims, "This exciting
program offers hope to tired parents," while author and lecturer H. Stephen Glenn
dubs it, "Unique, helpful and very well presented."
Temperament Talk: A Guide to Helping Families with Challenging
Children is the manual for lea ding the class. A 310-page volume containing the
complete text of the parent's worktext as well as session-by-session
instructions for leading the classes.
Easy-to-follow weekly agendas and tips
for teaching. $125.00
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Child psychiatrist Dr. Stella Chess, a pioneer in the study of
temperament, says this curriculum is, "An ultimate how-to-do-it workbook." Her
partner in the New York Longitudinal Study, psychiatrist Dr. Alexander Thomas says,
"Excellent and practical as to both theory and practice."
Temperament Talk: A Guide to Understanding Your Child
is the parent worktext for the course. A 232-page book with readings
and activities for skill mastery, supplemented by 88 Parenting Tips and Management
Strategies -- real life ideas to try with children. Parents assess their child,
themselves and learn to put temperament concepts into action.
$18.95
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The Poster
An 25" x 19," three-color poster featuring charming
caricatures depicting the temperament traits. Excellent visual aid for the classroom,
for promoting your course, or just a fun way of honoring temperament differences. $8.00
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Temperament Talk Training Opportunities
- If you would like some more background in temperament theory and some
"hands-on" experience with the curriculum, we offer a training for people who
will be using Temperament Talk with parents.
- The training is primarily experiential, with days one and two
focusing on theory and day three focusing on facilitator training. Enrollment is limited
to forty participants to assure learning goals are met and instructor attention is ample.
- We encourage you to contact other service providers in your area who
would be interested in Temperament Talk at their facility, in order to increase
participation and reduce per-person training costs.
- Past participants have found the training fast-paced, comprehensive,
useful and fun. The interactive exercises demonstrate and reinforce your understanding of
how temperament traits interact. Working from our adult selves, we see temperament masked
by skills acquired over years of development. Understanding this process helps you
facilitate it in others.
- Training costs are bid on an individualized basis. We will discuss
scheduling, location, travel time and expenses, number and background of participants,
credentials of trainers, and type of Continuing Ed hours desired, if any. We will then
negotiate a fee with you.
- We offer a 10% discount on Kit orders placed in conjunction with a
training.
- Our guarantee to you is this: attend day one. If, for any reason,
you do not feel that you have gained information an d skills to significantly improve the
way you work with parents, we will gladly refund the per-participant cost of the training
to the payer. You can only win.
- CEU credits are available in most states for nurses, counselors and
social workers.
- Training inquiries can be made by contacting us at The Center for
Human Development Inc., 1100 K Avenue, La Grande, Or 97850, (541)
962-8880 or email: makubin@chdinc.org with the name and type of your
organization, your contact person, how and when to reach you, and the approximate number
of participants.
Now Available
Temperament In the Workplace
In this daylong workshop, participants will learn to enhance the
team building process, create an atmosphere conducive to trust building among co-workers,
improve communication skills, and improve relationships with co-workers an d
clients/customers by:
- gaining an appreciation for and understanding the strengths and
unique qualities of the people we work with, both co-workers and clients/customers
- exploring temperament theory and how it influences the way we relate
and react to our environment
- taking responsibility for our own personal growth through management
of our temperamental style
- learning how to assess our client's temperament
- identifying aspects of our own temperament and how they influence our
personal successes and struggles in our workplace and relationships with clients/customers
- exploring proven methods for nurturing healthy teams
- learning the process for developing strategies specifically designed
for helping promote effective and smooth-running teamwork
An optional half- day session may be added to the training, if your
organization would like to be guided through the above strategy development pieces.
Understanding Temperament:
Strategies for Creating Family Harmony, by Lyndal
Schick, M.A., is a self-help book drawn from the Temperament Talk curriculum and expanded
with numerous anecdotes illustrating the ways temperament plays out in real life. Released
in the Spring of '98 by Parenting
Press, Seattle, WA Phone: 1-800-992-6657 |
