EDUC 23329: Responsive Caregiving and Mental Health Report

This report delves into the critical role of responsive caregiving in early childhood education, focusing on the prevention of mental health issues in infants and toddlers. It provides a reflection on a microteaching session where the student presented on the topic, discussing the causes of mental health problems, including genetic and environmental factors like abuse and neglect. The report highlights the importance of early childhood educators in identifying and addressing psychological issues, emphasizing strategies such as promoting open communication about emotions, encouraging social interaction, and fostering positive mental health in schools. The author also discusses the practical implications of the assignment, including how it helped educators understand the impact of psychological issues and develop effective strategies for supporting children, such as effective curriculum planning and parent-teacher meetings. The student also reflects on feedback received from peers, and identifies areas for further learning, such as various prevention and eradication methods used by educators worldwide.

Running head: RESPONSIVE CAREGIVING
Responsive Caregiving
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Reflection
Micro-teach Self Reflection
The term microteaching refers to a faculty development technique that includes educators
reviewing a teaching sessions for getting constructive feedback from their peers. As per my
opinion, the process of microteaching possess the potential to enhance the skill of the educators
to a great extent. When it comes to my process of sharing findings with my peers, I shared the
same e with the help of a power point presentation made by me. The topic of the article I worked
on was prevention of mental health illness of children. While creating the power point
presentation, my chief aim was to provide an in-depth understanding of the relationship between
psychological health issues and its determinants in children. While sharing my findings with my
peers, I noticed that majority of my peers are agreeing with the information delivered by me. A
brief discussion took place between me and one of my peers when I was sharing my findings
about how children suffering from physiological issues can be supported. She told me that it
would have been beneficial in case more in-depth discussion is performed on this specific issue.
Also, I have been told by 3 of my peers that I could have drafted the summary of the YouTube
video on prevention of mental health whose link has been shared by me. I agree to all the
constructive feedbacks given by me and will definitely implement the same in my next work.
Practical Implications for Early Childhood Educators
During my assignment, I have gathered several new lessons from my peers. Different
perspectives about the topic phycolgical issues in children, helped me to develop an effective
understanding of the impact of the issues in children and how we, as early childhood educators
can help the chidren to deal with the same.

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The three ways the assignment has supported the educators for working with the toddlers and
infants are as follows:
 The assignment helped the educators to identify the chief reasons that results in
psychological issues in children. For instate, a detailed discussion on the biological
causes that are responsible for occurrence of mental issues of the children has been
discussed. In the power point presentation made by me, I have vividly discussed the
sociological issues that are responsible for the occurrence of psychological issues in
children.
 The assignment helped the educators to detect strategies to effectively deal with infants
and toddler with physiological health issues. For instance, from the handout made during
class 1, we educators can obtain a brief understanding of the phycology of the family of a
disabled child.
 The third way the assignment have further supported the educators working with toddlers
and infants is that the assignment helps us to plan strategies in order to help children with
psychology issues. For instance, in my power point presentation, I shared my strategies
with the peers, like, communicating with the families, demonstrating concern as well as
looking for resources a others.
One of the example of strategies that I learned and believe to impose positive impact on our
work with the infants and toddler is effective curricula planning. It is highly crucial for teachers
to teach children about the importance of mental health (Forbes et al., 2019). I personally believe
that educators should encourage children to be verbal about their emotions. Children should
communicate about their feelings and release them one by one. Another strategy that I leaned
from the assignment is one of the ways to deal with mental health issues in children is promoting

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positive mental health in school. Educators should encourage social time. For instance at least a
30 minute break can be scheduled in schools for children where they will be allowed to go social
and focus on activities apart from academics (Shaw & Taraban, 2017). Not only this, a parent
teacher meeting is must, especially for children suffering from psychological issues. In case an
educator notice a child to be unusually calm, passive or aggressive, it is highly crucial for the
same to communicate with the child as well as his or her parents in an emergency basis
(McKeown et al., 2019).
Lastly, I would like to discuss about the topic that I would like to learn more. While a good
amount of discussion has been done on the reason behind psychological issues in children and its
impact on the same, I would like to learn more about the different type of prevention as well as
eradication methods adopted by the early childhood educators across the world.

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Reference list
Forbes, M. K., Rapee, R. M., & Krueger, R. F. (2019). Opportunities for the prevention of
mental disorders by reducing general psychopathology in early childhood. Behaviour
research and therapy, 119, 103411.
McKeown, A., Mortimer, R., Manzini, A., & Singh, I. (2019). Is coercion ever beneficent?
Public health ethics in early intervention and prevention for mental health. Mental Health
as Public Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Ethics of Prevention, 45.
Shaw, D. S., & Taraban, L. E. (2017). New directions and challenges in preventing conduct
problems in early childhood. Child development perspectives, 11(2), 85-89.