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Building Relationships with Parents and Caregivers

Explore techniques to navigate challenging behaviors from parents, caregivers, and specialists in educational settings. Learn to address problem behaviors positively while building strong relationships with families of diverse backgrounds. Gain insight into parental views on child-rearing practices and strategies to support parents of children with special needs.

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Building Relationships with Parents and Caregivers

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  1. Building Relationships with Parents and Caregivers A Change in Perspective

  2. Hot Button Activity-Parents and Caregivers • Identify a couple of parent/caregiver behaviors that push your buttons and write down on your handout. • After identifying several hot buttons, write down your feelings when you faced this behaviors. • Then write down the impact your feelings have had on your relationship with the parent who exhibited these behaviors. • Share your examples with the larger group.

  3. Hot Button Activity-Teachers and Specialists • Imagine you are a parent of a child with problem behaviors and identify a couple of teacher and/or specialist behaviors that push your buttons and write down on your handout. • After identifying several hot buttons, write down your feelings when you faced this behaviors from the teachers/specialists. • Then write down the impact your feelings have had on your relationship with the teacher/specialist who exhibited these behaviors. • Share your examples with the larger group.

  4. How to Talk to Parents/Caregivers about their Child’s Problem Behaviors • Start with expressing empathy for the family/caregiver situation. • Recognize that parents/caregivers are the experts of the child regardless of your views. • Your role is to educate the parent/caregiver about what you are seeing, not to confront them. • Recognize that a family’s life may not be conducive to immediately focusing on the child’s behavior. • Review handout “Talking with Families about Problem Behavior”. • Recognize the differences in families’ cultural views of behaviors.

  5. Parent Views on Social Emotional Functioning • A study compared parents' beliefs about daily child-rearing practices across three ethnic groups. • Three belief constructs were identified. • "Conformity" was least valued by European Americans. • "Autonomy" was equally valued by European Americans and African Americans, and less by Asian Americans. • There were no group differences in the importance of “Prosocial”. • Early Child Development and Care, v178 n5 p467-486 Jul 2008

  6. Parental Views of Control • Parents have a locus of control which ranges from external to internal. • Externals attribute outcomes of events to external circumstances • Internals tend to attribute outcomes of events to their own control. • Research conducted with non-Hispanic Whites indicates that parentsof preschoolers with behavioral problems are more likely tohave an external locus of control regarding parenting than parentswhose preschoolers are free of such problems. • Researchers compares parentallocus of control (PLOC) among parents of clinic-referred MexicanAmerican preschoolers to parents of nonreferred Mexican Americanpreschoolers. • Results demonstrate that referred Mexican Americanparents exhibited a more external PLOC than nonreferred MexicanAmerican parents across a number of domains. • Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 16, No. 2, 118-126 (2008)

  7. Parenting Stress, Child Behavior Problems and Dysphoria in Parents of Children with Autism, Down Syndrome Behavior Disorders, and Normal Development • Results of a study looking at parental issues of children with special needs indicated • Parents of children with autism and behavior disorders experienced statistically and clinically higher levels of parenting stress than parents in the other two groups. • Parents of children with behavior disorders reported that their children presented behavioral difficulties that were statistically and clinically more intense and numerous than those of all other children. • Mothers of children with autism and behavior disorders experienced statistically and clinically higher levels of dysphoria than mothers in the other two groups which appeared to be specifically related to the stresses of parenting exceptional children rather than to personal dysfunction. • Journal article by Jean E. Dumas, Lucille C. Wolf, Sandra N. Fisman, Annie Culligan; Exceptionality, Vol. 2, 1991

  8. Strategies to Build Relationships with Parents/Caregivers • What are some strategies for helping parents/caregivers feel more in control of their child’s behavior. • Brainstorm ideas about how to build relationships with all parents/caregivers • Refer to handout “Welcoming Activities and Ideas”. • Brainstorm ideas about how to build relationships with parents/caregivers of children with behavioral differences.

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