Respectful Care® throughout the lifespan
Books about Respectful Care®
Danielle McLellan-Bujnak (writing as Amy Huntsman) provides an award-winning and Amazon best-selling primer on implementing Respectful Care® in your own family. With its wealth of practical information and series of “reflect and act” exercises, it makes a great gift for expectant parents as well as parents of infants and children of all ages, from birth through the teenage years. It‘s also a wonderful reflective practice resource for infant and early childhood professionals.
“Faces of Child Care” research project
Find out more about Danielle McLellan-Bujnak’s ground-breaking action research project, providing contextualized professional development courses for home-based carer-educators in the nanny and newborn care specialist (NCS) populations. Danielle co-created a completely new and unique data set with nearly 150 nannies and NCS across the U.S. and U.K. The research has been featured at the NAEYC Professional Learning Institute, the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators, the World Forum on Early Care and Education, the California AEYC Conference, The World Association for Infant Mental Health, and the Zero to Three LEARN conference. It was also published in the "Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood." This project supporting inclusion in the early childhood workforce by recognizing and documenting the contributions and challenges of home-based carer-educators has also been expanded to include recognizing and documenting the contributions and challenges of male educators in the early childhood sector.
Consults for Parents
Book your personalized consult with Danielle McLellan-Bujnak here. Are you determined to break the generational cycle, but also frustrated with trying to get your baby to sleep, or trying to get your child to behave appropriately?
A professional consult can provide you with tools and techniques so you can break the cycle AND be an effective parent.
Zoom consults can be booked directly through the web site, and in-person consults can be booked by emailing info@respectfulapproach.com
Professional Development for Early Childhood Carer-Educators
Find out more about the Introductory and Advanced Courses in Respectful Care®, which have have been created and curated by Danielle McLellan-Bujnak with the needs of busy professionals in mind.
Parents value these professional practices very highly, and caregivers enjoy co-creating meaningful connections with infants, children & their families.
Elder and Dementia Care
Find out more about the different kinds of cognitive impairment and dementia, and connect with resources and skills that can support you in caring more effectively for patients, clients and family members who are experiencing this difficult diagnosis.
What does Respectful Care® mean?
“Respectful Care” is a registered trademark, and has been the exclusive name for the brand since its inception in 2017. Use of the term “respectful care” in the context of human development, education and care related to families and education and care professionals - and use of the Respectful Care® logo - are strictly prohibited without express written permission.
Respectful Care® refers to Danielle McLellan-Bujnak’s unique perspective on human development, education and care throughout the lifespan, which indexes popular classic educational, child care, and elder care philosophies with current research in the neuroscience of human development in a context of constructivist teaching and learning, resulting in a cohesive set of inter-related knowledge and practices that can be used intentionally by educators, parents, and professional and family care partners.
"Respectful Care®" is based upon Five Dimensions of Respect which are the bedrock of the Respectful Approach™ to Human Development, Education & Care.
Respectful Approach™ is also a trademark, and likewise has been in use since 2017 as the tagline for "Respectful Care®" - to express the perspective that the Dimensions of Respect and the core practices of Respectful Care® apply equivalently throughout the lifespan.
Both Respectful Care® and "the Respectful Approach™ to Human Development, Education & Care Throughout the Lifespan" (as well as their shared rainbow-people-blossom logo) are widely recognized as representing this specific, unique program of courses and care practices in the fields of parenting, professional child care and educational and elder care.
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