冨田 久枝

The falling birthrate is a serious problem in Japan. Child-nurturing support was a measure advanced by the government for dealing with the falling birthrate. Parents consultation and seminars are conducted on the site of the child care. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of this counseling approach termed the Structural group encounter method. In general, parents who showed low level communication showed more improvement at the end of the program than those that did not participate in the Structural group encounter method.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect that self-evaluation, by video analysis, had on the modification of teachers' helping skills for 3 to 6-year-old children in kindergarten. Six teachers were required to record their daily classes on video. While watching the recordings, they evaluated themselves on 40 items of helping skills 5 times, in consecutive intervals within a 2-week period. One group started in May, while the other group started in September. The categories of the skill targets were Direct Skills, i.e., holding and playing with children, a direct approach using ver...