| CODE | RSE5037 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Selected Topics on Resilience and Applications in Individual Educational Needs | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit examines, in more depth, topics and applications of resilience in vulnerable school populations such as children with disability, refugee and migrant children as well children with behavioral and emotional problems. In addition there will be an in-depth analysis of issues related to promoting management strategies to help teachers handle challenging situations. In addition, consultation strategies when working with others will also be presented and analyzed via case studies. Finally, important topics about parent training and education and family resilience will also be explored. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to cover applications of resilience research in education with a focus on children with special educational needs. Its goal is to help educators utilize applied knowledge and strategies on resilience building, with a focus on vulnerable populations such as children with special needs, including children with disability, migrant children. and chldren with emotional and behaviour difficulties. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Review critically relevant literature on the resilience and wellbeing of vulnerable children (e.g. special education needs: disability, migrant and refugee children, emotional and behaviour difficulties); - Understand how the consultation process can help teachers resolve problematic situations in schools; - Evaluate content areas in topics such as parent training and education and family resilience. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Acquire via case study analysis the skills to develop intervention plans to prevent, reduce behavioral and emotional problems and promote the resilience of vulnerable children such as children with SEN; - Develop and apply basic consultation strategies in addressing behavioral and emotional problems of vulnerable children; - Manage effectively stress related to teaching or taking care of vulnerable children; - Support the resilience of parents and families of vulnerable children. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: A list of individual papers will be assigned to the students from which conversation, presentations and discussion will be generated in every class. The following is a selective bibliography: - Cefai, C. & Cavioni, V. (2013) Social and Emotional Education in primary school: Integrating theory and research into practice: New York: Springer. - Ungar, M. (2012) The Social Ecology of Resilience, New York: Springer - Ungar, M. (2014) Working with children and youth with complex needs. London: Rouledge - Walsh, F. (1998) Strengthening family resilience. New York: Guildford Press. Supplementary Readings: - Cicchetti, D. (2013) Annual Research Review: Resilient functioning in maltreated children – past, present, and future perspectives. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54(4), 402-422. - Freitas, A. L. & Downey, G. (1998) Resilience: A dynamic perspective. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 22, 263-285 - Goldstein, S. and Brooks, R. B. (2013) Resilience in Children (2nd edition). NY: Springer Publications. - Kumfer, K. & Summerhays, F. (2006) Prevention approaches to ensure resilience among high-risk youth: Comments on the paper of Dishion & Connell & Greenberg, Annals New York Academy of Science, 1094, 151-163 - Luthar, S. S., Crossman, E. J., & Small, P. J. (2015). Resilience and adversity. In R.M. Lerner and M. E. Lamb (Eds.). Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science (7th Edition, Vol. III, pp. 247286). New York: Wiley. - Luthar, S. S. & Ciciolla, L. (2015) Who Mothers Mommy? Factors That Contribute to Mothers’ Well-Being, Developmental Psychology, 51 (12), 1812-1823 - Masten, A. S. & Coatworth, J.D. (1998). The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments: Lessons from successful children. American Psychologist, 53, 205-220 - Rutter, M. (2000) Resilience reconsidered: Conceptual considerations, empirical findings and policy implications. In J. P. Shonkoff & S. J, Meisels (Eds) Handbook of early Intervention (2nd ed. pp 651-681) New York: Cambridge University Press - Ungar, M. (2012). Researching and theorizing resilience across cultures and contexts. Preventive Medicine, 55(5), 387-389. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Performance | |||||||||
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