• Professional Practice: Includes topics on the state of the profession, professional certification, ethics, and child rights • Relationships: Includes topics on the role of relationships in human development, empowering interactions,
resistance to relationship building, and stages of relationship development • Communication: Includes topics on communication roadblocks, active listening, reflecting, and reframing • Documentation: Includes topics on observation skills, memory recall, non-judgmental and objective language • Guidance: Includes topics on the developmental needs, brain activation, emotional first aid,
effective directives, tension reduction, and behavioral counseling • Development: Includes topics on developmental stages and tasks, ecological theory, developmental assets,
cultural diversity, structure and supervision