What is it about?
Program model integrating knowledge and practice. Coursework, videotaping, on-site coaching, and the reflective process facilitate the application of knowledge through the integration of theory and practice supporting young children and families. It is designed to help teachers and early childhood professionals to internalize the skills and competencies needed to address challenging behaviors in their classrooms or at homes so that they can meet the critical social-emotional and behavioral needs of children.
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Why is it important?
Challenging behaviors are one of the issues all early childhood educators have to deal within their classrooms. The paper presents a cutting edge teaching model, which integrates knowledge, practice, and reflective practice. It focuses on the ECE workforce as the front line to the provision of early childhood mental health support. The model can be implemented in other higher education institutions to enhance the skill sets of professionals who need to respond to this critical need and support healthy development of young children.
Perspectives
I believe that we need to recognize the role of the early childhood care and education professional as a primary attachment figure who provides support for young children. It brings the mental health provider to the ECE site and to the natural environment of the child. Unlike the medical model, which brings the child to the clinical setting and provides behavioral support in isolation, or the consultation model which brings the mental health professional to the site when needed, this model calls for the involvement of the early childhood mental health professional in the natural environment of the child and recognizes the need for all adults involved in the care of the child to be informed, engaged, and skilled to support and regulate the child’s behavior.
Dr Shulamit Natan Ritblatt
San DIego State University
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This page is a summary of: The Early Childhood Socio-Emotional and Behavior Regulation Intervention Specialist (EC-SEBRIS) training model: a crossroad of mental health and early childhood education, The Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice, March 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jmhtep-02-2015-0006.
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