ECD 210 - Interaction and Prevention Skills With Children
Credits: 3
3 Lecture Hours
Prerequisites: ECD 209 or permission of instructor
Co-requisites: ECD 202 or permission of instructor
Description
This course prepares students to intentionally support children’s social and emotional development/mental health in childcare, school, recreational, or therapeutic environments using evidence-based techniques and practices. Topics include addressing challenging behaviors across various age groups, promoting resilience through play and family-centered, relationship-based strategies, and using observation and assessment data to create prosocial learning opportunities. Students explore strategies in working with groups, the use of games and activities for learning and assessment, collaboration with family and other professionals and clinical observation skills.
Students must have three current clearances: FBI Fingerprint Clearance, a Pennsylvania State Police Criminal History Clearance, and a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Child Abuse History Clearance and meet the local requirements of the field placement site, including the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) Verification Clearance.
A weekly field observation in programs serving children birth to 36 months or preschoolers; or schools; agencies or other therapeutic setting is required based on the student’s specific course of study.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Describe typical social and emotional growth and development and its relationship with early childhood mental health.
- Identify protective factors for resilience and ways to promote them in infants, toddlers and children.
- Describe the role of relationships and play in early childhood mental health.
- Research curricula and approaches that target social and emotional development in children.
- Role play effective and empathic responses to children’s challenging behaviors and to caregiver concerns about these behaviors.
- Create a resource file with multiple evidence- and relationship-based strategies and activities that address challenging behaviors and promote social and emotional development in children.
- Implement a variety of strategies and activities that promote resilience with young children.
- Write reflective journals about the implementation of identified strategies with young children.
- Develop informational materials for parents that highlight specific strategies that they can use to nurture social and emotional development in infants, toddlers and young children.
- Exhibit professionalism and sensitivity in working with children who present social and emotional development challenges.
- Compile a portfolio that aligns with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Standards and the Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health (I/ECMH) Competencies.
Listed Topics
- Science of resilience
- Executive function skills
- Self-regulation
- Social and emotional learning programs, such as PATHS® , Tools of the Mind, and Conscious Discipline
- Play and social-emotional development
- Group dynamics
- Strategies for addressing challenging behavior
- Modifying the learning environment to support prosocial behavior
- Intentional application of games and activities to address identified needs
- Assessment of children’s play and behavior
- Professionalism, sensitivity and confidentiality
Reference Materials
Trade books, OER, and multimedia materials.
Students who successfully complete this course acquire general knowledge, skills and abilities that align with CCAC’s definition of an educated person. Specifically, this course fulfills these General Education Goals: - Communication
- Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Information Literacy
Approved By: Dr. Quintin B. Bullock Date Approved: 03/20/2020
Last Reviewed: 9/23/2022
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