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The module aims to extend students understanding about holistic child development and care through an examination of young children’s wellbeing.

This module will cover the following topics:

children’s wellbeing in relation to recent government and European policy; curriculum guidelines, health initiatives and theoretical perspectives;

the concept of wellbeing including emotional, social, physical and mental wellbeing;

health promotion and promoting a healthy environment; strategies to communicate and promote wellbeing with parents and carers.

A student passing this module should be able to:...

1. Identify and analyse factors that promote children’s wellbeing;

2. Know how to, and articulate the importance of working with parents, carers and other professionals to promote children’s wellbeing;

3. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of current government and European policy underpinning children’s wellbeing;

4. Apply appropriate theoretical models to appropriate health promotion;

5. Analyse and evaluate information from literature, government initiatives and related websites and utilise this with reference to health promotion;

6. Adapt interpersonal and communication skills to a wide audience.

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.