You will Select a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Policy or Guideline(s)/ or Intervention: Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Childhood Essay, NYP, Singapore

Formative assessment:

Through a series of interactive seminar activities, you will gain from both lecturer and peer feedback as a community learning process. These will be through a selection of student-led debates, discussions, and presentations.

These will be integrated throughout the module and are designed in conjunction with Module Learning Objectives (MLOs) 1,2,3,4.

Summative assessment:

You will select a social and emotional wellbeing policy or guideline(s)/ or intervention (NOTE* Selected guideline is SOLIHULL APPROACH) that has interested you whilst studying this module. Some examples of these are provided during the module, with tutorials and seminars to help support your choices. You will identify and critically examine the influencing factors, which are associated with the support of well-being in children. This will take the form of a 3,000-word essay. Using the practical and theoretical material covered in the module you will have developed knowledge and insight to specifically identify: –

(a) The underpinning ideologies, approaches, theoretical, philosophical perspectives and values of the intervention or policy

(b) You will reflect on how this links with ideas of human flourishing and issues related to autonomy, relatedness, and competence in childhood and adolescent well-being.

Learning Outcomes: (MLOs 1, 2, 3, 4)

1. You will be able to demonstrate your understanding of a range of contrasting perspectives on wellbeing in childhood.

2. You will be able to demonstrate your understanding of children’s social and emotional wellbeing in relation to psychological, psychodynamic, and sociological aspects of child and adolescent development.

3. You will be able to analyse contrasting ideologies, approaches, and theoretical perspectives and recognize their implications for wellbeing in childhood.

4. You will be able to recognize the contrasting beliefs, attitudes, and values that underpin how social and emotional wellbeing in childhood is understood by different professions, (e.g. teaching, social work, health visiting, counseling) different cultures, and reflect on your own beliefs, attitudes, and values in relation to this.

You will receive electronic feedback on the summative assessment via Comments on assessed work, highlighting strengths and weaknesses, and indicating pathways to the further development of knowledge and skills. Areas of concern will be linked to positive advice on how to address issues. Important things to note: – selected guideline for the essay is the Solihull Approach.