All fields of work at the Competence Centre for Early Childhood (KFK) are directly related to each other. The background to the KSK is to think about and organise the fields of work of early help and early intervention together. The aim is to enable professionals to look beyond the defined responsibilities of the existing differentiated professional groups in early childhood support and to keep an eye on the entire family system and the necessary support.
In recent years, Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences has strongly focussed its specific profile within the "Health and Social Care" study area on improving training skills in the early childhood sector. This has been accompanied by the establishment of a dedicated early childhood education centre (LFS), which aims to ensure a close link between academic teaching, specialist training and practical application. The LFS gives students the opportunity to put the knowledge they have acquired during their studies into practice and reflect on it critically. In close dialogue with teaching and specialist staff, they learn how work processes can be designed in practice, what challenges early intervention specialists face and what potential the field of early intervention offers in the context of social work. This enables students to enter the practical semester and / or the profession with extended practical knowledge. Implicit in this is the expansion of competences to critically reflect on their own work steps and to deal more intensively with a theory-practice transfer.
More detailed information can be found in the Concept paper of the early learning centre to read.
The KFK would like to transfer the above-mentioned scientific findings into modern practical concepts and test the effect of family-oriented support programmes integrated into the medical-social networks in the form of a regional model project. Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences has been supporting processes for social space-oriented reorganisation for many years and has also developed its own concept for an early teaching support centre. This concept is now being combined with the curative early intervention centre in the old district of Osterode/Harz to create a new overall concept for an interdisciplinary early intervention teaching centre (LFS) and has been tested since November 2020 in cooperation with the local early intervention centre and the Early Intervention Network. The main focus is on improving early detection by reducing access thresholds. The target group are children living in the old district of Osterode who have not yet started school and who are suspected of having developmental risks, as well as their carers.
As part of the pilot project, scientific support is provided to analyse, critically reflect on and publish the effectiveness of the support. The project is also supported by a research group from the Medical School Hamburg, headed by Prof. Dr phil. Liane Simon, Professor of Transdisciplinary Early Intervention at the Arts and Social Change Campus.
In order to obtain valid and reliable material, a minimum period of three years with the option of an extension for a further two years is envisaged.
Detailed Information on the pilot project can be read below.
Certificate course
The first years of a child's life are crucial for its later development. The "Developmental Psychology Basics (EPG)" certificate course is aimed at professionals in the field of early help and child protection who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the needs of infants and young children.
The course teaches the latest findings from infant, toddler and attachment research as well as practical skills for recognising conditions that inhibit development and introducing targeted interventions. The course combines theoretical knowledge with practical case studies and exercises for analysing parent-child interactions in order to create conducive conditions for children.
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