**Gail L. Ensher, Ed.D**, **David A. Clark, M.D.**

## Relationship-Centered Practices in Early Childhood

Discover fresh ways to build strong working relationships with diverse families and young children from birth-age 8. This essential guidebook from two top experts gives readers a clear framework for relationship-centered care in natural environments.

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**Invaluable insights** on different types of family diversity:

- **Family structures.** Get a better understanding of teen parents, older mothers and fathers, same-sex parents, single parents, and more.  
- **Risk factors.** Manage the effects of factors like substance abuse, natural and man-made disasters, homelessness, family member loss, and child abuse and neglect.  
- **Child-related challenges.** Address the ongoing effects of prematurity, disability, and sibling concerns.  
- **Cultural backgrounds.** Strengthen interactions with families from specific cultural backgrounds, and learn how culture might inform families' perspectives on early intervention and medical treatment.

### Reviews

: Book News - June 25, 2012  
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Megan Purcell, Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, Eastern Kentucky University - June 13, 2011  
A wonderful text that brings forward the very important and yet delicate issues surrounding our work with families . . . I look forward to adding it to my own resource list as I work with pre-service and practicing early interventionists and early childhood special educators.