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Roles, skills, and job tasks in professional child care: A review of the literature

Roles, skills, and job tasks in professional child care: A review of the literature

Authors :
Richard W. Small
Laura M. Dodge
Source :
Child & Youth Care Quarterly. 17:6-23
Publication Year :
1988
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1988.

Abstract

More than 150 references dealing with roles, skills, and job tasks in child care work that have appeared since 1930 were located and analyzed. They appeared to group themselves into six categories within the overall role: parent substitute/primary caretaker; therapeutic intervention; membership in a professional team; training provided to the worker; membership in an emerging profession; and new roles and tasks involving the family and the community. Lists of specific tasks identified are provided in five categories, and all the references are categorized as well.

Details

ISSN :
15733319 and 08930848
Volume :
17
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Child & Youth Care Quarterly
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........9ee14f35ba7c311d427b3b19616c74f5
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01089398