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Extrait d'un programme de promotion de la résilience en matière de protection de l'enfance: travailler sur le fonctionnement émotionnel en tant que facteur de protection

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Extract from a program promoting resilience in child
welfare: working on emotional functioning as a
protective factor (PF)
Anne Zabern
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Anne Zabern. Extract from a program promoting resilience in child welfare: working on emotional
functioning as a protective factor (PF). Symposium International Resilio “ De la théorie à la pratique :
bilan des programmes d’intervention basés sur la résilience”. ., Oct 2017, Bucarest, Roumanie, France.
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working on emotional functioning
as a protective factor (PF).
Extract from a program promoting 
rEsiliEncE in child wElfarE: 
Aims of the study
For the purpose of a current doctoral research, we have created and implemented an experimental 
program to promote resilience for child welfare workers.
zabern.anne@gmail.com  |       AZabern@adsea26.org
The intervention is addressed to 14 professionals working with children aged 6-13 in a placement situation.
This involves two sessions :
second session: Six annual meetings conducted by duos of 
professionals of the first session. They had to revisit the topics 
and tools already studied in order to assimilate them more; 
and to create new practical tools, or to adapt existing tools, in 
order to develop the PF being studied.
During the meeting concerning emotional 
functioning, we studied how emotional 
awareness and emotional regulation (those of 
professionals, children and parents) could be 
PF and how to develop them in daily work. 
This meeting enabled to put words on emotional 
functioning already known by professionals 
but badly defined. 
The professionals seemed to enjoy and were 
particularly interested in the question of 
emotions at work.
Awareness of the importance of working on 
emotion has occurred (What does this child/his 
behavior create in me? Which answer should I 
provide to this child to help him/her deal with 
his /her emotions? How can my own feelings 
be used as working tools? Etc.)
The tools proposed during the first session are 
exercises which aim to help children question 
themselves on primary emotions (fear, joy, 
anger, sadness, etc.); to help them to identify 
how and where emotion is felt in his/her body; 
to define how this emotion is expressed and, if 
necessary, how it could be expressed differently, 
etc.
Most of the PF studied in this intervention are already known by the professionals but everyone has their own definition and 
representations (frequently unclear) about them. The first step was to enable them to build a common culture, to redefine theoretical 
basis essential to their daily work and to offer them practical tools. The second session, more maieutic, has strengthened considerable 
changes in their daily work and allowed for a significant evolution in children’s development.
Symposium International Resilio « De la théorie à la pratique : bilan des programmes d’intervention basés sur la résilience». 27 octobre 2017. Bucarest, Roumanie
orgAnizAtion
Anne zabern - evelyne Bouteyre
An exAmple: working on the « emotionAl functioning » pf
conclusion:
first session: Six annual meetings focusing on six topics (resilience 
definition and five PF identified as dominant in our population) 
were conducted by two psychologists. Practical tools were 
provided at each meeting.
several changes were observed in both 
children and professionals :
 ³ Concerning the children
 3 Less emotional overflow.
 3 Less conflicts between children in 
everyday life for the group.
 3 Greater emotional awareness and more 
verbalization of emotions in everyday 
life.
 3 An increased capacity to ask for help 
with emotions regulation (to find way 
to calm anxiety, to avoid outbursts of 
anger, to deal with sadness, etc.).
 ³ Concerning the professionals :
 3 Better team dynamics (a more convivial 
and warm atmosphere, more laughs, 
more mutual support).
 3 Stabilization of the team. An important 
turnover was observed in the first session 
(more than half of the team has changed). 
No change during the second session. 
Our hypothesis is that this stabilization is 
linked to better regulation of emotion in 
daily work. Greater emotional awareness 
helps to deal with negative feelings and 
to provide greater attention to positive 
feelings. 
 3 Professionals often refer to this meeting, 
especially to “jokes” they have made, 
which, in turn, reminds them daily of the 
content of this meeting.
 3 Finally, the tools used have allowed to 
unleash the professionals’ creativity: 
they develop collective games about 
emotions, tools for the self-evaluation of 
emotional state for children (emotional 
calendar or emotional weather), etc.
professionals’ feedback about this 
meeting is as follows :
  
 ³There is a real difficulty to discuss about 
emotions with young children. The Tools 
used during the session allowed to mediate 
educational relationships and enabled an 
approach to emotions in a manner consistent 
with the children’s age.
 ³ About tools :
•	 They are useful in the long term because 
they are integrated in daily care (ex: I 
have the impression that you are angry, 
is it true? And, consequently, what did 
we agree to do when you feel anger 
coming on? Etc.).
•	 They enable to go back over the question 
of emotions within the children’s group 
because all of the children are familiar 
with these tools and this make a common 
reference for discussion about emotions. 
•	 They provide an easy, straight forward 
and mediated manner to talk about 
emotions with parents.
 ³ Theoretical input and tools about emotional 
functioning allow for a new perspective on 
work on parent-child relationships.


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