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KMID : 0381219840160040296
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Journal of RIMSK
1984 Volume.16 No. 4 p.296 ~ p.301
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Day Care Center and the Role of Mental Health Professional
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Abstract
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Day care by persons not in the family is not a new aspect of child life, nor are the services that parents need. However, the increased number of one-parent families, the difficulties of supporting a family on one salary, the desire of many women to work outside the home for a variety of reasons, and the push to reduce the number of families on welfare-all have contributed to the heightened awareness of and demand for child day care programs.
Many of the research and demonstration models developed during the 1960´s had the specific purpose of organizing child day care programs from a sound developmental and educational point of view. There was a broad consensus among early childhood specialists about this emphasis. What varied were their ideas about how to provide such services. Some program leaders developed curriculums that focused largely on the stimulation of cognitive development or speech. Others placed primary emphasis on the affective life of the child. Still others set more comprehensive goals, in which attention to all aspects of the child´s health and development was considered necessary ingredient of high-quality day care.
Whatever the merits of the various approaches, the point that day care programs for young children should have a developmental and educational focus has become well accepted in principle, even though not always carried out in practice.
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