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This training session will focus on the family coaching approach to using a Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence and Addressing Challenging Behavior. This approach was developed to support home visitors who are working with caregivers of infants and toddlers with or at-risk for disabilities. The approach focuses on supporting home visitors in the use of evidence-based family coaching strategies to enhance caregivers’ capacity to promote their infant or toddlers’ social emotional competence. The approach includes all major components of the Pyramid Model including: building relationships, high quality environments, universal screening, social emotional assessment, targeted social emotional teaching strategies, preventing challenging behaviors through positive parenting practices, and addressing the needs of toddlers with challenging behaviors. The approach merges evidence-based practices for coaching families with infants and toddlers and promoting social emotional competence (e.g., Dunst & Bruder, 1999; McWilliam, 2010; Rush & Shelden, 2011; Squires & Bricker, 2007).
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