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TOOL NAME
Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes
USED TO EVALUATE
Quality of parent-child interactions
AGE RANGE
10–47 months
COMPLETED BY
Home visitors, parent educators, social workers, child development specialists, parenting class leaders, infant mental health clinicians
TIME COMMITMENT
10-minute observation
ABOUT
The Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO™) is a checklist of 29 observable developmentally supportive parenting behaviors in four domains (affection, responsiveness, encouragement, and teaching). It is a positive, practical, versatile, culturally sensitive, valid, and reliable tool for practitioners that shows what parents can do to support their children’s development.
PICCOLO helps practitioners observe a wide range of parenting behaviors that help children develop over time—an approach known as developmental parenting. Parenting strengths—what the parent already believes is important to do and is comfortable doing with his or her child—are a valuable resource for increasing the developmental support available to young children.
Description
Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO)
Essential for programs using the PICCOLO™, this training DVD includes a 64-minute narrated presentation and 14 invaluable DVD clips of parent-child interactions to help users practice observing and scoring.
The introductory presentation explains the 4 PICCOLO domains (Affection, Responsiveness, Encouragement, and Teaching), describes how each domain is important for child development, and walks the viewer through each of the 29 items on the tool. Viewers also learn which types of activities work best for observations, how to talk to a family about the observation, guidelines for video recording, and how to use results to help plan home visits.
The DVD includes 11 clips of English-speaking families—4 1-minute clips, 4 5-minute clips, 3 10-minute clips. Three clips of Spanish-speaking families (1 1-minute clip, 1 5-minute clip, and 1 10-minute clip) are also provided. Programs can use these clips in staff training to ensure reliable use of the PICCOLO. A scoring key for each clip with rationale is inclued in the PICCOLO User's Guide.
This DVD is part of the PICCOLO, a quick and reliable observation tool for measuring parent–child interactions.
View the recorded webinar: How PICCOLO Can Help You Work More Effectively with Parents of Young Children presented by Lori Roggman.
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Reviews
Review by: David Bedford, MSW, Program Planning Manager, University of New Mexico Center for Development & Disability
"A tool that is useful not only for observation, but also a wonderful way to engage parents that encourages their confidence and competence as parents."
Review by: Rachel Chazan Cohen, Associate Professor, George Mason University
"Fills a critical need for an easy-to-administer and easy-to-score measure of parenting that requires minimal training to administer. It is invaluable for all early childhood programs that aim to improve the parent-child relationship."
Table of Contents
DVD Chapter Selection1: Presentation:
PICCOLO: An Observational Measure of Developmental Parenting
2: Example Videos:
Affection, Responsiveness, Encouragement, Teaching, Practice clips
Included PDF FilesEnd User License Agreement
29 Things Parents Do that Predict School Readiness
PICCOLO Observation Notes Table