Tomlin Angela M, Hines Elesia, Sturm Lynne
Riley Child Development Center-LEND Program, Indiana University School of Medicine.
Infant Ment Health J. 2016 Nov;37(6):617-627. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21610. Epub 2016 Oct 24.
The work of home visitors in early childhood fields may include addressing many challenges to achieving curricular outcomes, including issues such as maintaining boundaries and managing one's own reactions to children, parents, and overall family situations. Increasingly, reflective supervision and consultation are recognized as a way for workers in home-visiting early intervention and early care fields to address these personal and professional challenges and build competence (Watson, Gatti, Cox, Harrison, & Hennes, ). The features of home visiting that make reflective supervision/consultation essential are discussed. Next, results of a pilot project in which a sample of Part C early intervention providers respond to a vignette portraying a challenging parent-child interaction are briefly presented and discussed. Despite often stating the importance of relationships, participants did not identify concrete methods of supporting relationship or demonstrate recognition of parallel process. In addition, providers seldom endorsed the use of reflective skills such as observing, listening, wondering, or reflecting (Weatherston, ), and no providers discussed a need for reflective supervision/consultation. We suggest that these findings illustrate some of the areas in which early intervention home visitors could benefit from participation in reflective supervision/consultation to move from identifying reflective skills as important to actually being able to use such skills in their work with families.
家访工作人员在幼儿领域的工作可能包括应对实现课程目标过程中的诸多挑战，比如维持界限以及应对自身对儿童、家长和整个家庭状况的反应等问题。越来越多的人认识到，反思性督导和咨询是家访早期干预及早期照护领域的工作人员应对这些个人和职业挑战并提升能力的一种方式（沃森、加蒂、考克斯、哈里森和亨内斯， ）。本文讨论了使反思性督导/咨询至关重要的家访特点。接下来，简要介绍并讨论了一个试点项目的结果，在该项目中，部分C类早期干预服务提供者样本对描绘具有挑战性的亲子互动的 vignette 做出了回应。尽管参与者常常强调关系的重要性，但他们并未指出支持关系的具体方法，也未表现出对平行过程的认识。此外，服务提供者很少认可使用观察、倾听、思考或反思等反思性技巧（韦瑟斯顿， ），且没有服务提供者讨论过反思性督导/咨询的必要性。我们认为，这些研究结果说明了早期干预家访人员可能从参与反思性督导/咨询中受益的一些领域，从而从认识到反思性技巧的重要性转变为能够在与家庭合作的工作中实际运用这些技巧。
