PowerPoint Presentations
The following PowerPoint presentations have been presented by Dr. Stephen Bavolek at different workshops and conferences during the past few years. Dr. Bavolek grants permission to utilize the information contained within the PowerPoints to others for educational purposes. Family Development Resources, Inc, publishers of the Nurturing Parenting Programs and the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2) kindly request that information taken from these PowerPoint presentations in other PowerPoint presentations and publications use the references cited with each presentation.
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Empathy: Building Nurturing Families for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
Presented at the 2009 Prevent Child Abuse Hawaii Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Parental empathy is the single most important characteristic in the promoting healthy, caring children, and consequently in preventing child maltreatment. The word empathy comes from the Greek word “empatheia” which means “feeling into; to be in close union with another.” Research has identified the important role empathy has in parent-child bonding and attachment in the development of safe, stable and nurturing relationships. Having an empathic relationship with the child propels parents to seek alternatives to hitting, yelling and belittling as forms of discipline, as well as having appropriate developmental expectations, two parenting patterns that contribute to child maltreatment.
Learn about empathy and ways to build parent-child empathic relationships.
The Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect
Presented at the 2009 Prevent Child Abuse Hawaii Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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The staggering costs of child maltreatment are realized in the tragic number of child fatalities, as well as the physical, social and emotional injuries suffered by children throughout their life time. The direct and indirect costs in real dollars are near 100 billion dollars.
This power point presentation presents an overview of the definitions of child abuse and neglect, indicators of these conditions, the effects of maltreatment on the child’s physical, social, emotional and spiritual development, and the direct and indirect costs treatment and loss productivity.
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