Preliminary 2025-2026 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    May 09, 2025  
Preliminary 2025-2026 Yavapai College Catalog

ECE 260 - Child Guidance


Description: Proactive relationship-based strategies that promote attachment and the social and emotional needs of young children. Focus on strength-based guidance strategies and developmentally appropriate guidance approaches. Emphasis on trauma-informed, brain-based approaches to behavior intervention. This course requires 5 face-to-face observation hours in an early childhood setting.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Relationship-based strategies for attachment
  2. Promotion of prosocial development in young children
  3. Strengths-based guidance strategies
  4. Developmentally appropriate social/emotional expectations
  5. Developmentally appropriate teaching strategies for social/emotional development
  6. Trauma-informed brain-based approach to behavior intervention
  7. Guidance plan development

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Describe the relationship-based approach to developing secure attachments with children and caregivers in classroom settings. (1)
  2. Identify developmentally appropriate strategies that encourage prosocial development. (2)
  3. Describe strengths-based guidance strategies. (3)
  4. List developmentally appropriate social/emotional expectations. (4)
  5. Identify developmentally appropriate social/emotional teaching strategies. (5)
  6. Summarize trauma-informed, brain-based approaches to intervention. (6)
  7. Devise a well-developed guidance plan based on an assigned case study of a child with persistent and challenging behavior. (7)