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Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization, Third Edition

The third edition contains updated approaches to nurturing the social and emotional growth of infants and toddlers. Current research about brain development and its relationship to children's emotional growth and socialization are also discussed. An appendix of the social-emotional development foundations is included.

Mangione, P. L., & Marcella-Burdett, J. (Eds.). (2023). Infant/toddler caregiving: A guide to social-emotional growth and socialization (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: California Department of Social Services and WestEd.
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Manual

Trainer's Manual Module I: Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization, Second Edition

The Module I Trainer's Manual provides easy-to-follow guidelines for effectively presenting materials in the module. Annotated lesson plans outline adult learning activities, support materials, and video content. Handouts are also included. The second edition has been revised to include updated information and guidance on understanding and supporting infants’ and toddlers’ social-emotional development. A new section on infant mental health has been added. There is a strong emphasis on including children with disabilities or other special needs in infant/toddler care programs.

WestEd. (2014). The program for infant/toddler care trainer’s manual, module I: Social-emotional growth and socialization (2nd ed.). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.

Deborah Greenwald

Deborah Greenwald
Senior Program Associate
WestEd

Deborah Greenwald joined WestEd in 2002 as a Senior Program Associate. She is currently the WestEd lead on the federal State Capacity Building Center Infant/Toddler Specialist Network, providing support and guidance to states, tribes, and territories for quality improvement in infant/toddler care settings. She directed the development of California's Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Program Guidelines and is a faculty member of the Program for Infant/Toddler Care Trainer Institutes.

Kadija Johnston

Kadija Johnston
Director
UCSF Infant-Parent Program

Kadija Johnston is the Director of the Infant-Parent Program at the University of California, San Francisco. She has worked in the field of early childhood mental health since 1985, initially coordinating a therapeutic nursery school, and then as an infant-parent psychotherapist, a clinical home visitor and mental health consultant to childcare programs. Johnston developed the program’s Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) Consultation component in 1988.

Julie Law

Julie Law
Senior Research Associate
WestEd

Julie Law is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd. Law has extensive background in early childhood education, teacher training, and professional development of the workforce. Currently as Infant Toddler Specialist for the State Capacity Building Center, a Service of the Office of Child Care, she builds relationships within state systems to develop and deliver innovative professional development and technical assistance to support quality infant/toddler initiatives.

Christina Lopez Morgan

Christina Lopez Morgan
Professor Emeritus
De Anza Community College

Christina Lopez Morgan retired in June 2010 from the faculty of De Anza College in Cupertino, California where she was a faculty member since 1988. She is currently Professor Emeritus teaching part time for the Child Development and Education Department.

Guide

Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Routines, Second Edition

Caregiving routines are opportunities for caregivers to build a close personal relationship with each child while attending to the child's physical, emotional, and other developmental needs. Concepts presented by Janet Gonzalez-Mena include greetings and departures, feeding, diapering and toileting, dressing and bathing, sleeping and naptime, health and safety, record keeping, and special issues with children and families. Lists of appropriate and inappropriate practices and suggested readings are also included

Gonzalez-Mena, J. (2002). Infant/toddler caregiving: A guide to routines (2nd ed.). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.
Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Routines, Second Edition
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Jennifer Marcella-Burdett

Jennifer Marcella-Burdett
Senior Research Associate
WestEd

Jennifer Marcella-Burdett is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd. She co-directs an evaluation of the California Statewide Early Math Initiative. Additionally, she is a lead content developer for the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning, a project funded by Head Start to promote the implementation of research-based practices that lead to positive child outcomes in early childhood programs.

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