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Promotion of Positive Behaviour and Social Emotional Development in Institutional Care

Dita NimanteLinda DanielaBaiba Martinsone

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Promotion (rank)media_common.quotation_subjectSocial emotional learningPsychologySocial psychologymedia_common

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Personnel working in institutional care have the important role of providing for the development of children who have experienced the trauma of being separated from their families. Personnel need to be emotionally responsive, able to form consistent, trusting, and long-term relationships with children, believe in them, support them in continuing education, and have high expectations for them. Despite these facts, there is no Latvian legal requirement for personnel working in institutional care to have a pedagogical education. This article describes the implementation of two professional in-service training programs: “Promotion of Positive Behaviour in Children with Institutional Care Experience” and “Social Emotional Development” in one children's home-shelter and the effects of the programs at the level of personnel, children, and organization.

https://doi.org/10.4018/ijseus.2018100106