Family day care educators' knowledge, confidence and skills in promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing: Baseline data from Thrive

Title
Family day care educators' knowledge, confidence and skills in promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing: Baseline data from Thrive
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Davis, Elise
Corr, Lara
Harrison, Linda
Sims, Margaret
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-4245
Email: msims7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:msims7
Ummer-Christian, Rahila
Gilson, Kim-Michelle
Waters, Elizabeth
Mihalopoulos, Catherine
Marshall, Bernie
Cook, Kay
Herrman, Helen
McKinnon, Andrew
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:16147
Abstract
This paper presents baseline data from Thrive, a capacity-building program for family day care educators. Educators completed a self-report survey assessing knowledge and confidence in promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing. An in-home observation was used to assess care quality. Twenty-four educators responded to the survey (40 per cent response rate). They had an average of nine years' experience and 82 per cent held childcare qualifications. Educators reported knowledge of, on average, three early signs of social and emotional problems in children, three risk factors and two protective factors. Using a scale from 0-10, mean educator confidence levels ranged from an average of 6.69 to 7.25. Quality of care ratings were moderate. Although educators had a good understanding of children's social and emotional wellbeing, the study identified opportunities for significant changes in the quality of the educators' interactions with children in their care and their professional development.
Link
Citation
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 39(3), p. 65-75
ISSN
1839-5961
1836-9391
Start page
65
End page
75

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