NCAST PCI Feeding and Teaching Scales and Implementation Day

In this program, participants learn skills in the observation and assessment of caregiver and child during a feeding and teaching situation.

A key element of this program is the opportunity to be assessed for reliability in the use of a validate tool, the PCRP Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Feeding and Teaching Assessment Scale.

Who is this workshop for?

• Child & Family Health Nurses, Newborn Care Nurses, Paediatric Nurses, Researchers, Social Workers, Psychologists, Occupational and Physical Therapists, Lactation Consultants, Infant Mental Health Specialists

• Prior to doing the PCR Programs PCI course you must have completed the Keys to Caregiving workshop

What are the NCAST Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) Feeding and Teaching Scales?

• Valid and reliable assessments for measuring parent-child interaction with an extensive body of research across disciplines

• A well-developed set of observable behaviours that describe caregiver/parent child interaction in a feeding and teaching situation

• Excellent pre and post measures to document intervention effects for clinicians and researchers

• Scales which have been used in hundreds of studies and published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals

How do the PCI Scales benefit caregiver/parent-child interaction?

• Gives concrete areas to guide intervention

• Transforms the provider's view of the parent-child relationship

• Gives the provider a new lens with which to see the strengths and opportunities for growth in the parent-child relationship