Diversity

Children overcome crises

Development crises

Admission requirements

STEOP, Choice of specialisation

Semester: 8 - Wahlpflichtfach

Orientation

Diversity

Aim

Migration and inclusion are the overarching themes of the two courses "Children overcoming crises" and "Children going their own way". Both present examples of educational biographical transitions and crisis-related challenges faced by children of pre-school and school age. On the one hand, the aim is to provide students with factual knowledge and contextual information on school transitions and crisis-related challenges in childhood and adolescence. On the other hand, and also in the sense of developing a profession-specific professional ethos, possibilities for appropriate support for children in and out of school during biographical transitions and in various demanding life situations are to be presented.

Content

• Complex challenges at the beginning of life and in early childhood (e.g. prematurity, trisomies, accidents) and their systemic impact on families
• Symptoms, follow-up problems, therapies and emergency interventions for common chronic illnesses (e.g. diabetes, asthma, migraines, epilepsy)
• manifestations of childhood grief and experiences of loss (e.g. in the context of family deaths, flight, separation)
• Psychological crises (e.g. eating disorders, depression; mental illness in the child's family) and psychological contact points
• Extreme health situations: hospitalisation of children, limited life expectancy and the role of curative education and palliative care
• Family pressures (e.g. socio-economic disadvantage) and extreme situations (e.g. child neglect, child abuse)
• pedagogical good practice for dealing with specific motor, sensory and language development issues (e.g. infantile cerebral palsy, AVWS, speech development disorders, communication disorders, stuttering)
• Good practice for strengthening the school's role in promoting resilience
• multi- and transprofessional cooperation