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The Nurturing Parenting Programs® are published by
Family Development Resources, Inc. (FDR) which is headquartered
in Asheville, North Carolina and has been promoting non-violent
parenting practices since 1983.
The author of the Nurturing Parenting Programs® and
President of Family Development Resources, Inc. is Stephen
J. Bavolek, Ph.D. Dr. Bavolek is also the Executive
Director of the Family Nurturing Centers, International.
With offices in Asheville, NC and Park City, Utah and over
100 Trainers/Consultants worldwide, FDR has has sold over
1 million copies of their English and Spanish Parent Handbooks.
Families from all over the world (including the US, England,
Australia, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South
Africa, and Canada) have had the opportunity to benefit
from the Nurturing philosophy of parenting; and in all branches
of the military, families are using the Nurturing Parenting
Programs® to improve their parenting skills.
Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D., is a recognized leader in the
fields of child abuse and neglect treatment and prevention,
and parenting education.
Born and raised in Chicago, Dr. Bavolek's professional
background includes working with emotionally disturbed children
and adolescents in schools and residential settings, and
abused children and abusive parents in treatment programs.
Dr. Bavolek has conducted extensive research in the prevention
and treatment of child abuse and neglect. He received his
doctorate at Utah State University in 1978 and completed
a post-doctoral internship at the Kempe Center for the Prevention
and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect in Denver, Colorado.
He has held university faculty positions at the University
of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, and the University of Utah.
Dr. Bavolek has received numerous international, national,
state and local awards for his work, including induction
in 1989 into the Royal Guild of the International Social
Work Round Table in Vienna, Austria, and selection in 1983
by Phi Delta Kappa as one of 75 young educators in the country
who represent the best in educational leadership, research
and services. In addition, he has been selected by Oxford's
Who's Who in 1993 as a member of the elite registry
of extraordinary professionals and in 1998 as a member of
the elite registry of extraordinary CEO's. Dr. Bavolek was
also Mental Health Professional of the Year of Northern
Wisconsin in 1985 and Child Advocate of the Year in Utah
in 1991. In 1980, he was recognized by the Military Order
of the Purple Heart for outstanding research and services
to the handicapped.
He has conducted over 1,000 workshops, has appeared on
more than 50 radio and television talk show programs, and
has published numerous books, articles, programs and newsletters.
He is the principal author of the Nurturing Parenting Programs®,
programs designed to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect,
and the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI), an
inventory designed to assess high risk parenting attitudes.
Dr. Bavolek is President of Family Development Resources,
Inc. and Executive Director of Family Nurturing Centers
International.
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| Family Development Resources is proud to be celebrating 25 years of publishing the Nurturing Parenting Programs. |
The family is a system. Involvement
of all family members is essential to change the
system. Parents and children in the Programs participate
together in group or home-based interventions.
Empathy is the single most
desirable quality in nurturing parenting.
Empathy is the ability to be aware of the needs
of others and to value those needs. When empathy
is high among family members, abuse is low. The
two are essentially incompatible. The Programs seek
to develop empathy in all family members.
Parenting exists on a continuum.
To some degree, all families experience healthy
and unhealthy interactions. Building positive, healthy
interactions between family members is an important
key to reducing family violence.
Learning is both cognitive
and affective. To be effective, education
or intervention must engage the learner on both
the cognitive (knowledge) level and the affective
(feeling) level.
Children who feel good about
themselves are more likely to become nurturing parents.
Children who feel good about themselves are more
capable of being nurturing sons and daughters and
of becoming nurturing parents than children with
low self-worth. A major goal of the Programs is
to help both parents and children increase their
self-esteem and develop positive self-concepts.
No one truly prefers abusive
interactions. Given a choice, all families
would rather engage in happy, healthy interactions
than abusive, problematic ones such as belittling,
hitting, and shaming.
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