ABSTRACT
156In the previous chapters of this book, we laid the foundations for our recommendations for practice in early childhood by describing the theoretical principles that inform them. The social-emotional wellbeing of a young child is the solid foundation for their mental/cognitive and behavioral health. Early childhood education must be about healthy emotional development and socialization of the child. Throughout this book, we have presented scientific research that supports this belief. In the last three chapters, we borrowed from several theoretical foundations to lay the grounds for practices that, in our opinion, will promote not only mental health and wellbeing, but also will set the stage for future academic well-doing. In this and the next chapter, we bring together principle elements of theories that historically have competed and worked against one another within a positive approach, called the Resilience-based Interaction Model (RIM). We describe its basic premises and some of its elements in details in this chapter and will present the remaining components in the next and final chapter of this book.
