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Based on recent research in child development, the
ICDP psychosocial intervention programme aims to enhance and enrich
the relationship between caregivers and their children.
The ICDP programme is designed to identify and reactivate
local cultural practices, in order to stimulate development that
is authentic, sustainable and long lasting.
The task of ICDP training is to sensitise, build
competence and confidence in members of a community or an existing
child caring system, so as to withdraw after some time and transfer
the project to the local resource persons.
THE
PROGRAMME'S OBJECTIVES
1. To influence the caregiver’s experience of the child in
a positive way, so that the caregiver can identify with and ‘feel
with the child’, sense the child’s state and needs and
adjust her/his caring actions to the child’s needs and initiatives.
2. To strengthen self-confidence in the caregiver.
3. To give children the opportunity to be heard,
listened to and responded to by opening up a space for meaningful
dialogues with adults.
4. To give children opportunities to follow their
own initiatives giving them support when needed, but without taking
over the control of the situation from the children.
5. To promote a sensitive emotional-expressive communication
between caregiver and child that may lead to a positive emotional
and developmental relationship between the two.
6. To promote an enriching, stimulating interaction
between caregiver and child that expands and guides the child’s
experiences and actions in relation to the surrounding world.
7. To reactivate
indigenous child-rearing practices and values, including the child
culture of play, games, songs and co-operative activities.
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