Provider management of child stress behavior in family day care facilities: scaffolding for learning and development by developmentally appropriate practice.
Six children (5 boys, 1 girl; aged 36-60 months) participated in this qualitative study. Each child was enrolled in a different family child care facility. The authors rated the child care providers in 3 of the facilities as using developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) most of the time and rated the providers in the 3 other facilities as rarely or never using DAP. They also examined provider management of children's stress behaviors. The authors observed less active and passive stress behaviors in the high-DAP facilities than in the low-DAP facilities. The authors discuss the results with regard to the distinctively different day care culture found in high-DAP facilities versus low-DAP facilities and the implications for practice.
Chang
Chih-Ying
CY
Early Childhood Education, Yew Chung International School, Silicon Valley, CA, USA.
Austin
Ann M Berghout
AM
Piercy
Kathleen W
KW
D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology