Lead practice in promoting the well-being and resilience in children
Click on the right arrow to watch a video on supporting well-being and mental health.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Your child’s self-esteem’ from Kids Health
- 'Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Self-confidence and self-awareness’ by the Early Years Support Service
- 'How to build resilience and perseverance in young children’ from the Famly website
- 'Well-being for children in the EYFS’ written by Stephanie Moriarty from Cache
- 'Well-being in the early years’ from Teach Early Years
- 'Supporting emotional well-being in the early years’ on the Croner-i website
- 'Working together to safeguard children: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children’ from HM Government
- 'Effective practice: Health and well-being’ from The Early Years Foundation Stage
- 'Overweight children aged 2 to 5’ from the NHS
- 'Promoting and supporting healthy eating in early years settings’ from Action for Children
- 'Influencing healthy eating habits through early years settings’ from UK Health Security Agency
- 'Nurture curiosity to develop efficient learning’ from the Child and Family Blog
- 'Encouraging independence’ on the Teach Early Years website
- 'Social and emotional wellbeing: early years’ from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘What is well-being?'.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on 'How to develop children's self-esteem'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This article on ‘The development of self-esteem in children: Systematic review and meta-analysis’ from the International Journal of Psychology and Behavior Analysis in America examines some of the factors that shape self-esteem in children. Read from the ‘Background’ up to ‘Method’ and then read the ‘Conclusion'.
- ‘The role of childcare professionals in supporting mental health and wellbeing in young people: a literature review’ by Ione Inness from PACEY examines the importance of early years and the role of the childcare professional supporting children’s health.
- My Happy Mind is a website that has created some strategies to support young children’s well-being.
- This research by the University of Brighton and BoingBoing examines ‘Resilience approaches to supporting young people’s mental health’. It appraises the evidence base for schools and communities; however, you may find some of the approaches appropriate for use in the early years.
- Click to read more about ‘Identifying low self-esteem thoughts and behaviours’ by Claire Black.
- This article relates to a study from the University of Washington on young children’s self-esteem. From your experience working with children of this age, which elements of the results do you agree or disagree with and why?
- Click to read this advice ‘How can teachers foster self-esteem in children?’ on the Great Schools website on nurturing a student's sense of dignity and self-worth.
- ‘Self-esteem: children 1-8 years’ webpage on the Raising Children website. Click on the icon to the left to read this article.
- Click to read ‘Excellence and Enjoyment: social and emotional aspects of learning’ by the National Strategies. This document was published under a previous government and may not reflect current policy, but much of the guidance is still relevant today.
- Click on the right arrow to watch a video on supporting well-being and mental health.
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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