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Integrating Health and Educational Perspectives to Promote Preschoolers’ Social and Emotional Learning: Development of a Multi-Faceted Program Using an Intervention Mapping Approach
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posted on 2020-01-16, 00:00 authored by Claire Blewitt, Heather Morris, Kylie Jackson, Helen Barrett, Heidi BergmeierHeidi Bergmeier, Amanda O'Connor, Aya Mousa, Andrea NolanAndrea Nolan, Helen SkouterisHigh-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) can strengthen the social and emotional skills that are crucial for children’s ongoing development. With research highlighting an increasing prevalence of emotional and behavioural challenges in young children, there is emphasis on embedding teaching practices and pedagogies to support social and emotional skills within early learning programs. A growing body of research has examined the impact of social and emotional learning programs in ECEC; however, few studies describe the intervention development process, or how educators and other professionals were engaged to increase the relevance and feasibility of the program. The current paper describes the development of the Cheshire Social-Emotional Engagement and Development (SEED) Educational Program, an online learning tool to support early childhood educators to foster children’s positive mental health. Cheshire SEED was designed using five steps of the Intervention Mapping methodology: (i) comprehensive needs assessment to create a logic model of the problem; (ii) creation of program outcomes and change objectives mapped against determinants of educator behaviour; (iii) co-design of theory-based methods and practical strategies; (iv) program development; and (v) adoption and implementation planning. The process and decisions at each step of the IM protocol are presented, and the strengths and limitations of the approach to develop a mental health intervention for ECEC settings are discussed.
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Journal
International journal of environmental research and public healthVolume
17Issue
2Article number
575Pagination
1 - 24Publisher
MDPILocation
Basel, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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1661-7827Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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intervention mappingintervention developmentsocial and emotional learningearly childhood education and carekindergarteneducator-child interactionsScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineEnvironmental SciencesPublic, Environmental & Occupational HealthEnvironmental Sciences & EcologyTEACHER-CHILD INTERACTIONSRESEARCH-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIPSBEHAVIOR PROBLEMSRISK-FACTORSLITERACY INSTRUCTIONPUBLIC-HEALTHCOMPETENCEQUALITYCLASSROOMCAREEducation