Reviews: Continuing Professional Development - Emotional response

Nursery World, 27 November 2007

A course on family breakdowns helps practitioners to support children struggling to cope. Karen Faux reports

According to its recent participants, Walking with Fragile Families is an immensely rewarding and in-depth course, focused on the emotional intelligence of the child. The current programme, run by Experiential Play, covers eight presentations over two months and a visit to four settings in Belfast. Underpinning the course is the question, how does a fragile family background affect a child's social and emotional intelligence? Nikki Gunn, acting deputy of the Parkside Community Nursery in Glasgow, says 'The presentations are very powerful and the course...

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