Yhteispeli koulussa - opas hyvinvoinnin ja vuorovaikutuksen vahvistamiseen

Yhteispeli on käytännöllisten toimintatapojen kokonaisuus tunne- ja vuorovaikutustaitojen opettamiseksi lapsille. Se sisältää johdonmukaisia ja koulun arkeen sopivia keinoja luokanopettajille ja rehtoreille lasten kehityksen tukemiseksi. Yhteispeli tarjoaa konkreettisia työtapoja koulun tavoitteellisen kehittämisen tueksi ja koko kouluyhteisön hyvinvoinnin vahvistamiseksi. Se on hyödyllinen myös sivistysjohtajille, jotka pyrkivät uudistamaan alueensa koulujen toimintaa sekä ennaltaehkäisemään ja vähentämään koulutyötä kuormittavia ongelmia. Yhteispeli jakaantuu seuraaviin osa-alueisiin: työ luokassa, kodin ja koulun yhteistyö, koulun kehittäminen, toiminta työyhteisössä sekä esi- ja alkuopetuksen yhteistyö. Yhteispeli on kehitetty kehityspsykologiseen, kasvatustieteelliseen ja lastenpsykiatriseen tietoon perustuen, yhteistyössä suomalaisten koulujen, lasten ja vanhempien kanssa

Collective Impact on Prevention: Let's Talk About Children Service Model and Decrease in Referrals to Child Protection Services

Background: Families with parental mental health issues often have numerous problems needing multilevel measures to address them. The “Let's Talk about Children Service Model (LT-SM)” is a community-based service approach aiming at collectively impacting population needs regarding child protection services. Three municipalities in the Raahe District (RD) of Finland requested implementation of the LT Service Model. This paper describes the model and first results.Methods: The LT Service Model connects relevant stakeholders with families and their social networks aiming at the shared goal of supporting children's everyday life at home, kindergarten, school, and leisure environments. Parents, teachers, and other caretakers are supported by LT interventions. An infrastructure for collaboration, decision making, monitoring, training, and feedback is established, embracing health, social and educational services, and other stakeholders. Referrals to child protection services were compared with national data before (2009–2013) and after implementation of the LT Service Model (2013–2016). Analyses were conducted using the joinpoint regression method.Results: There was a significant decrease in the underage population referred to child protection services in RD (AAPC = −6.9; p = 0.013) between 2013 and 2016, in contrast with an increased rate nationwide (AAPC = 1.9; p = 0.020).Conclusion: In the LT Service Model, prevention starts in children's everyday life as the uniting, common goal for multiple stakeholders and an integrated service structure is developed to support this effort. The first results are promising, showing an appreciable decrease in referrals to child protection services, although further research with longer follow-up and across other municipalities is needed

Preventive interventions in families with parental depression: children’s psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour

The aim is to document the effectiveness of a preventive family intervention (Family Talk Intervention, FTI) and a brief psychoeducational discussion with parents (Let’s Talk about the Children, LT) on children’s psychosocial symptoms and prosocial behaviour in families with parental mood disorder, when the interventions are practiced in psychiatric services for adults in the finnish national health service. Patients with mood disorder were invited to participate with their families. Consenting families were randomized to the two intervention groups. The initial sample comprised 119 families and their children aged 8–16. Of these, 109 completed the interventions and the baseline evaluation. Mothers and fathers filled out questionnaires including standardized rating scales for children’s symptoms and prosocial behaviour at baseline and at 4, 10 and 18 months post-intervention. The final sample consisted of parental reports on 149 children with 83 complete data sets. Both interventions were effective in decreasing children’s emotional symptoms, anxiety, and marginally hyperactivity and in improving children’s prosocial behaviour. The FTI was more effective than the LT on emotional symptoms particularly immediately after the intervention, while the effect of the LT emerged after a longer interval. The study supports the effectiveness of both interventions in families with depressed parents. The FTI is applicable in cultural settings other than the USA. Our findings provide support for including preventive child mental health measures as part of psychiatric services for mentally ill parents

"Together at school" - a school-based intervention program to promote socio-emotional skills and mental health in children : study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

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