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Nurturing relationships between caring adults and children have the power to heal troubled lives" (Rice & Groves, 2005, p. 18). Based on the Child Trauma Toolkit and the essay "Respectful Teaching with Infants and Toddlers" from Concepts for Care, identify three strategies that can be used by child development professionals to develop nurturing relationships between adults and children. How can each of the practices you identified contribute to children's development of resiliency?

Appropriate guidance and socialization strategies support the healthy mental development of all young children. Based on the essay "Socialization and Guidance with Infants and Toddlers" from Concepts for Care and explain, using examples, how attention to developing and fostering healthy interactions within a respectful environment can both cultivate infant/toddler mental health and foster resilience.

Although children may unfortunately experience many different kinds of trauma, behavioral signs and symptoms of trauma are fairly consistent across children. Strategies supporting the development and learning needs of children who have been traumatized require quality, individualized caring and learning experiences that are in tune with each child's unique emotional needs (Rice & Groves, 2005). Review the Child Trauma Toolkit. Identify and explain two teaching strategies that meet the development and learning needs of all children, including those who are most needy, and two adaptations, or special considerations, that child development professionals may need to be mindful of with children who have been traumatized.

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Question 1: Identify three strategies that can be used by children development professional to develop nurturing relationship between adults and children.

Answer: Respect is the key for best practice and for meeting the developmental needs of infants and toddlers. The belief system of children is framed by the current and past experiences of the child including both negative and positive. Out of every 4 children who attend the school have been exposed to trauma event which affects his learning and behaviour. The strategies that can be used by the professional are:

1. Respect: The children are worthy of our time and attention. They have their own rights and once should respect their existence .This respect and value shown towards the concerns of children will foster a healthy relationship among adult and children and will contribute to an effective resiliency. For example: A child who attends the school, hesitate to go to school every morning. The mother asks the child for the reason. For this the child responds he don’t like the sweeper in his classroom. The mother instead of ignoring his concern, she pays attention to his feeling and decides to check with the school authority. This action of the mother helped the child to feel secure and it also developed a bond of trust between them.
2. Encourage children to make choices: This means not only the choices offered by adults but also the choices made by the children independently. For example a child who is watching others play has decided to join the play once he is aware of it. This will motivate the child to make healthy decisions with adequate support. They should be allowed to choose the environment they are comfortable in so that they can recover from any traumatic experiences that they have gone through.
3. Good listeners: After a traumatic experience, even if a child or and adults requires someone who would listen to their concerns without interrupting. This will help the care professional to identify their needs and to evolve ways to helps them overcome their negative experiences.

Question 2: How attention developing and fostering healthy interaction within a respectful environment can both cultivate infant/toddler mental health and foster resilience?

Answer: A traumatic events affects the child’s mental and physical growth and development. The positive and negative experiences in family, school and community frames the belief system of a child. In order to identify the degree of impairment or trauma effect, the child should be able to ventilate his/her feelings. In case of children with language its easy but the ones whose language has not yet developed needs good non verbal communication on the part of the caregiver to develop a mutual trust and security.

The respectful environment should be according to the choice of the child because the child will express himself only in a safe and secure environment. The caregiver who gives proper attention to the concerns of the child and is ready to support him, is only accepted by him. The traumatic experience maybe because of someone who is very near and dear to him. In that case the child will not easily trust anyone. By giving good attention, love and adequate support, the child will show readiness to face any challenges that is going to come and will also foster resilience

For example: A girl toddler who is watches his mother being ill treated by his father, refuses to interact with any male person who comes near to her with a fear be assaulted as well. She identifies every male to be her father and starts crying. As the language is not fully developed its difficult to deal such cases. The caregiver should be a female who can help to identify that its only her father who is assaulting his mother not every male. She should be given complete attention and should also be introduced to men who will not harm them but rather help them to overcome her negative feelings.

Question 3: Identify and explain two teaching strategies that meet the development and learning needs of all children including those who are most needy and two adaptations or special consideration that child development professional may need to be mindful of with children who have been traumatized.

Answer:

• The teaching module should be made simpler so that it does not become strenuous for the traumatized children.
• The children should be allowed to make choices about their learning, how they would like to get educated.

The two important things that a child development professional should mind are:

• Safe environment to the traumatized children.
• Allow expression of their concerns without interruptions.