What is it about?
Mental Health of practitioners in Early Years and the impact this can have upon colleagues, morale and children. Addressing the idea that if practitioners cannot self-regulate and have a deeper understanding of the impact their own mental health and wellbeing has upon the way in which they react and respond to young children and their own emotional needs, this could subsequently impact those children and their emotional wellbeing as a result.
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Why is it important?
if practitioners cannot self-regulate and have a deeper understanding of the impact their own mental health and wellbeing has upon the way in which they react and respond to young children and their own emotional needs, this could subsequently impact those children and their emotional wellbeing as a result and as primary educators we need to be leading by example particularly when it comes to self-regulation and emotional intelligence.
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The mental health of early years practitioners is something that is overlooked and often misunderstood but is one of the most important components of early years education. Children need to be nurtured and supported by attuned adults; attuned to the child as well as their own mental health and wellbeing to enable them to provide the best possible scaffolding to support and develop emotionally intelligent children who are able to self-regulate as a result of the positive displays of emotional understanding and regulation they have experienced first-hand from the adults around them.
Chloe Webster
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This page is a summary of: Mental health awareness in early years, Early Years Educator, May 2023, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/eyed.2023.23.22.12.
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