GROW YOUR KIDS: TREE
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“Parenting is a dance and parents can help set the steps – the rhythm- the tune- the song…”
Ken Tellerman M.D.
These materials have been developed by the Maryland Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics. They are designed to help pediatric clinicians promote positive loving connections between parents and their babies.
INTRODUCTION: WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Adverse childhood experiences can lead to developmental delay, long term health problems, poor school performance and significant behavioral and emotional problems. The “buffering” effect of a positive stable caretaker relationship can help to create resilience and offset the effects of toxic stress particularly in young children ages 0-3 years.
Pediatric practitioners are often the first professionals who interface with parents and infants and are therefore key experts in helping to both promote healthy parent infant attachment and communication and in identifying dysfunctional parent infant dyads before problems escalate.
Yours may be the only professional voice that parents of infants and young children hear!
Parenting Resources
- Toys for Kids HandOut
- TREE 0-4 MONTHS HandOut
- TREE 4-8 MONTHS HandOut
- TREE 8-12 MONTHS HandOut
- TREE 12-18 MONTHS HandOut
- TREE 18-24 MONTHS HandOut
- TREE 0-4 MONTHS HandOut Spanish
- TREE 4-8 MONTHS HandOut Spanish
- TREE 8-12 MONTHS HandOut Spanish
- TREE 12-18 MONTHS HandOut Spanish
- TREE 18-24 MONTH HandOut Spanish
- Please scroll down for the Thinking Outside the Blocks video
TREE Office Based Flip Chart
- 1) TREE Office Flip Chart
- 2) Please scroll down for the TREE Office Based Training Video with Flip Chart
- 3) Instructions for creating the TREE flip chart
- 4) TREE Study Clinical Pediatrics PDF
TREE Early Relational Health Animated Video
- TREE animation video
(narration can be slowed down by clicking the settings bar at the bottom of the video and moving the custom playback speed to 0.9) - TREE Animation Video Training Companion
TREE CME and MOC
- 1) Obtaining CME MOC-2 and MOC-4 Credits
- 2) QIDA Overview and Data Entry Guide
- 3) 12 CME Questions
- 4) 12 CME References:
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- Bethell 2019 POSITIVE EARLY CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
- Bucci 2016 TOXIC STRESS
- Cates 2016 MITIGATING THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY ON EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT
- Forkey Chapter 2 CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE
- Garner Chapter 1 THINKING DEVELOPMENTALLY 2018
- Garner Chapter 5 THINKING DEVELOPMENTALLY 2018
- Garner and Yogman 2021 AAP ACEs AND TOXIC STRESS POLICY STATEMENT
- High 2014 LITERACY PROMOTION IN PRIMARY CARE AAP POLICY STATEMENT
- Johnson 2013 SCIENCE OF EARLY LIFE TOXCI STRESS
- Shah 2015 POSITIVE PARENTING PRACTICES, HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND DEVE
- Yogman 2018 AAP POWER OF PLAY
- Verification Requirements MD Treehouse Project
TREE Early Relational Health Syllabus
Session #1 Look: Observing Parent Infant Interactions- ERH Exam
Session #2 Listen- ERH History
Session #3 Providing Positive Feedback to Parents
Session #4 Developmental Coaching: Talk and Communication
Session #5 Developmental Coaching: Play and Learning
Session #6
Appendix TREE ERH Office Activities
- 0) Appendix Overview of TREE Early Relational Health Activities
- 1) TREE SAP EARLY RELATIONAL HEALTH PARENT INFANT OBSERVATION MODEL
- 2) Social Emotional Milestones Activity
- 3) Serve and Return Activity
- 4) Social Cues Activity
- 4A) Rupture and Repair Activity
- 5) Reflective Parenting Questions Activity
- 6) Opening Pandora’s Box Activity
- 7) Active Listening Activity
- 8) Early Relational Health Vitamin E Therapy Activity
- 9) Early Relational Health Providing Positive Feedback Activity
- 10) Reconstructing the Well Child Visit Activity
- 11) Foster Caregiver Calmness Activity
- 12) Developmental Coaching Talking and Communication Activity
- 13) Activities Talk and Communication
- 14) Baby Sign Language
- 15) Developmental Coaching Playing and Leanring Activity
- 16) Activities Play and Learning Activity
- 17) Playing with Blocks Office Encounter Activity
- 18) Making the Case Activity
- 19) Sustaining Change Activity
- 20) PDSA Cycle Template
Maryland Community Resources
TREE Office Based Training Video with Flip Chart
TREEHOUSE Introductory Coaching Videos and Powerpoint
Implementing the TREEHOUSE Program: Instructional Video
TREEHOUSE Demonstration Coaching Video #1
TREEHOUSE Demonstration Coaching Video #2
Thinking Outside the Blocks
Program
Introduction
Observing and Conveying
Child Development
Observing Parent
Infant Interactions
Promoting Positive Parent
Infant Interactions
Difficult
Situation Simulation
Integrating Grow Your Kids
Into Well Child Visits
Emotional Health Committee
Maryland Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
TREE MATERIALS DEVELOPED BY:
Chairman, Ken Tellerman M.D.
Annemiek Wilms-Floet M.D.
Margo Candelaria Ph.D.
Laurie Chaikind MSW
Joyce Harrison M.D.
Barbara Howard M.D.
Natalie Spicyn M.D.