Report on Child Wellness and Wellbeing in Educational Settings

This report delves into the multifaceted concept of child wellness and wellbeing, emphasizing the significance of social, emotional, and physical dimensions within educational settings. It highlights the importance of a strong sense of wellbeing in fostering children's confidence, optimism, and overall development. The report examines various models of health, including the medical, ecological, and holistic approaches, to provide a comprehensive understanding of child wellbeing. It emphasizes the impact of psychological health on children's ability to perform duties effectively and underscores the role of educators in supporting children with mental health challenges. Furthermore, the report discusses physical wellbeing, social competence, and the impact of stress on educators and children. It suggests practical strategies such as outdoor activities to mitigate stress and promote holistic health. The conclusion stresses the need for educators to extend their knowledge to all caregivers to ensure effective child development.

INTRODUCTION
Topic
Supporting the wellness and wellbeing of the children
Audience
The audience will be the members of the childhood staff
Objective
The main objective is to explore issues that could negatively impact the wellness and
wellbeing at the work place

Contd…
• Wellness is an active procedure that explains the existence of positive
health within one’s self.
• A strong sense of well-being results to confidence and optimism
among children that maximizes their potential to learn and grow.
• Children’s excellence of wellness and wellbeing is directly related to
children

Contd…
• The wellness and wellbeing can be examined in the following
dimensions.
1. The social wellbeing.
2. Emotional wellness and wellbeing.
3. Spiritual wellbeing
4. The physical wellness

HEALTH MODEL
• Medical model is a pathology based model
• The ecological health model
• The holistic health model defines health in terms of the whole
person

CHILD WELLBEING
• The person psychological health significantly impacts their ability in
carrying out their duties effectively.
• It acts as an essential aspect of developing competence, happiness, self-
esteem and self-determination.
• The World health organization emphasizes that physical, psychological
and social purpose is never independent but a state of self and
environmental balance (Schonert-Reichl & Lawlor,2010).

Contd…
• The school officials usually relate to mental with differences and
disabilities.
• understanding the mental wellbeing of the limitations by the educators in
the schools significantly shape what can be rectified concerning the mental
health issue
• Hence educators should explore ways for self-assessment on methods for
supporting kids with mental health challenges

THE PHYSICAL WELLBEING
• The physical wellbeing is a universal concept possessed by every child
and It's fundamental dimension considered as;
1. attribute,
2. capability
3. The conditions of the kids' body (Rodger, Bourdage, Hancock,
Hsiang, Masters, & Leschied,2017).

Contd…
• The physical wellbeing facilitates the social fitness of the kids.
• The social competence pertains the condition in which a child can interact
effectively with the others (McFarland, & Currie, 2017).
The aspect is also vital for the health of the kids since it incorporates; Their
Confidence,
Feelings and
The trust of the environment they are growing in.

Contd…
• The physical fitness is necessary for improving the social state of the
children.
• That means individuals must develop, guard and maintain the physical
fitness (Connor, Church & Yondorf,2016).
• An educator should be able to acknowledge physically cared kids by attaining holistic
health and understanding their responsibilities to the continued environment.

STRESS
• Stress is another issue that negatively affects the wellness and the
wellbeing of the educators in their working place.
• The burden is linked to the contrary and positive events.
• Families' should, therefore, be educated on the various techniques for
preventing the stress (Roberts, Gallagher, Daro, Iruka & Sarver, 2017).

Contd…
• These procedures help in providing opportunities for the kids to
experience feelings like happiness, peace and the interest of nature.
• This can be achieved through the following method
Outdoor activities (Oppenheim, Stewart, Zoubak, Donato, Huang &
Hudock 2016) .

Contd…
• Outdoor activities have the following benefits.
1. widening the knowledge
2. Helping the children to live a very long life.
3. Allowing the kids to in burning off the steams
More efforts are required since the kids appear to have little involvement
in the outdoor activities is diminishing.