May 02, 2024  
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IECD-555 Relationship-Based Practice with Infants, Children, Families, and Professionals

4 semester credits


This course builds an understanding of relationship-based practices with infants, children, and families and the vital importance of these types of interactions for effective and successful interventions, educational endeavors, and policies that serve our family populations. The course also develops skills to build these professional relationships, which support not only the populations served, but also the professional themselves.
Pre-requisites: IECD-552 , IECD-553   
Co-requisites: IECD-554  
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):  

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

  • Develop an understanding through current research and foundational literature of relationship-based practices with infants, children and families.
  • Know how relationship-based approaches need to inform medical care, mental health, allied health, education, early intervention, and policy.
  • Understand how all individuals, including family members and professionals, bring into professional situations their own relational histories, experiences, and trauma as well their capacities for resilience.
  • Use reflective practice skills to facilitate relationships with infants, children, and families as well as other professionals. 
  • Build one’s own relationship capacities through reflection and self-awareness to enhance professional practice and enhance one’s own well-being as a professional.



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