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Parental Support In Interventions

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Interventions that seek to address specific stressors typically give accurate information, counteract pathological appraisals, teach problem solving strategies, teach affect awareness and regulatory skills and provide social support. However, Sandler et al. note that it is unknown how the programmes achieve the positive effects.
There is consistent evidence that children who perceive high levels of parental support are better adjusted. High levels of parental support reduces negative effects of stressors on children’s mental health (Sandler et al., in Handbook of Children’s Coping, 1997). A focus on parental support in interventions would be effective, as children could experience an increase in self-esteem, perceptions of control and sense …show more content…

Frydenberg and colleagues discuss the ability to influence young children’s coping styles from the perspective of social and emotional competence, which have been identified as a protective factor against emotional and behavioural difficulties (Denham, 2006). Emotions have been argued to underlie the development of problem-solving ability (Izard, 2002). According to Eisenberg and colleagues’ (1997) definition, coping is a subset of the broader category of self-regulation in response to stress. Three aspects of self-regulation are theorised that involve attempts to regulate the emotion, the situation and emotionally driven behaviour. Furthermore, they argued that coping is not always conscious and intentional (Eisenberg et al., 1997); coping consists of regulation of internal emotional arousal and behaviour, as well as the regulation of the source of emotional arousal (Liew et al., 2003). Denham and colleagues (2003) reported that young children often need external assistance to modify their emotional reactions. Parents and teachers reported the link between this emotional regulatory coping and social competence (Eisenberg et al., 1995). Emotional competence in 3 and 4 year olds impacted social competence at the same ages and in the subsequent year (Denham et …show more content…

The use of creative activities provide children opportunities to relate to ‘the self’ and to reflect; the encouragement to discuss what they are expressing, according to Vygotsky (1962), is vital in learning and developing within the social environment where they are constantly problem solving. Verbalisation of their ideas enables children to begin self-directed

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