Naslov
Psycho-Educational and Social Intervention Program for Parents (PESI): trainer's manual and trainee's workbook

Urednik/ci
Alimović, Sonja ; Lisak, Natalija ; Wagner-Jakab, Ana ; Žic Ralić, Anamarija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Uredničke knjige, prirucnik, strucna

Izdavač
Lumen

Grad
Iași

Godina
2018

Stranica
143

ISBN
978-973-166-508-5

Ključne riječi
Psycho-Educational and Social Intervention Program for Parents, Psycho-Educational Kit, Trainee's Workbook

Sažetak
The psycho- educational & social intervention program is developing an interdisciplinary approach to address the psychological, educational and social needs of the parents of children with special needs in order to strengthen their personal, social-emotional skills and their parenting skills, so that they will experience a growing social inclusion and wellbeing. The general aim of the project is pursued through a double way intervention: first it is addressing the parent‘s personal needs for social—emotional development, coping strategies learning to face the stress and promoting social inclusion, enhancing their resilience and experiencing wellbeing ; second it is addressing to their parental role and it meets the need of parenting skills development for becoming a real resource for their children with special needs. The PESI Program will comprise psychological, educational and social approach for promoting social inclusion of the families parenting children with special needs Their psychological needs will be addressed through psychological evaluation of their personal, social-emotional competencies and through proving specialized training for social-emotional learning in order to attain wellbeing and to master coping strategies. Their educational needs will be addressed through providing opportunities for learning coping strategies and parenting skills useful in dealing with children with special needs. The psycho – educational intervention will be assured by providing training programs for parents in order to enhance their wellbeing through enabling them to have healthy coping strategies to stress and developing their social- emotional skills. Their social needs will be addressed through fostering social inclusion by integrating them into support network for sharing knowledge and experiences on parenting a special child. The social dimension of the intervention program will be covered by the developing a support group for parents so that they will extend their social network and they could benefit from knowledge and experiences sharing, and they could receive a specialized guidance as well. The PESI Program involves instructing parents in such a way that they can use the knowledge, instruments, skills and techniques to enhance their wellbeing and their parental practice. The program has a preventive goal in order to enhance the protective factors within family and the parent-child dyad, and to modify or eliminate the risk factors within the family and the parent-child relationship. The stages of the PESI Program will be: PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL KIT Program 2016-1-RO01-KA204-024504KA2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices Strategic Partnerships for adult education Development and Innovation 2 | P a g e -initial assessment (stress, social-emotional competence, resilience, wellbeing, parenting social representation), - training of parents, - post- training assessment, - and follow-up through involving the parents in support groups, followed by a final assessment. What are the benefits of participating in such a training program? Expected results for the target group: parents of children with special needs - Parents will experience individual changes on the level of social-emotional skills, coping skills, wellbeing ; - Parents will enhance their wellbeing, resilience through learning stress coping strategies ; - Parents will improve their social- emotional competence through social-emotional learning within training groups ; - Parents will receive useful information about raising children with special needs ; - Parents will extend their knowledge about the specific of social- emotional development of children with special needs ; - Parents will raise their awareness upon their active role in facilitating wellbeing for children & family ; - Parents will gain experience through active participation at support group meetings ; - Parents will become resources for their peers through their involvement into support network for parenting children with special needs ; As we already know, the trainer himself/herself experience a personal development moment. Expected results for trainers and staff - The trainers will be enabled with strategies to work with parents for promoting resilience, coping skills, wellbeing of families with disabled children ; - The staff will enhance their abilities of teamwork within an intercultural environment, so they will experience an intercultural competence raise ; - The staff will exercise and will improve their research and training skills ; Llewellyn and Leonard (2009: 6) point to the importance of family to children and young people with disabilities that is why this intervention is focused on strengthening the family wellbeing through training and education.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijske znanosti

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