Authors Fernanda Soares, Nina Menezes Cunha, and Paul Frisoli discuss how they created a new tool for measuring teachers’ emotion regulation, perceived stress, emotional exhaustion, and self-efficacy and adapted it to the Salvadoran context. A psychometric factor analysis of data from a sample of 1,659 teachers indicate evidence of the tool’s validity.

Taking a family systems approach, authors Raija-Leena Punamäki, Kirsi Peltonen, Marwan Diab, and Samir R Qouta find that child-parent attachment, parenting styles, and sibling relationships may mediate the perceived benefit of a group therapy program among a sample of children from 325 Palestinian families. They base their findings on family-type data and self-reported PTSD and mental health data.

يناقش الباحثون شانا كون وكيم فولدز وتشارلوت كول وماكينزي ماتيوس وليلى حسين ضرورة اتباع نهج تشاركي مستنير بالصدمات لإنشاء وسائط تعليمية للتعلم العاطفي والاجتماعي للأطفال المتأثرين بأزمة اللاجئين السوريين. ويعودون بذلك إلى الأبحاث التعاونية والمشاورات التي أدت إلى إنتاج برنامج أهلاً سمسم وخدمات الدعم المباشر المرتبطة به.

Authors Shanna Kohn, Kim Foulds, Charlotte Cole, Mackenzie Matthews, and Laila Hussein argue for the need to take a participatory, trauma-informed approach to creating SEL educational media for children affected by the Syrian refugee crisis. They reflect on the collaborative research and consultations that led to Sesame’s Ahlan Simsim production and associated direct support services.

In developing and testing a new instrument, Sergiy Bogdanov and his coauthors offer evidence suggesting that family support, optimism, persistence, health, and social networking are key local concepts for understanding resilience among youth in Eastern Ukraine who experienced the adverse effects of armed conflict.

Arguing the practicality of group-based psychotherapy approaches for humanitarian settings, authors Gloria A. Pedersen, Manaswi Sangraula, Pragya Shrestha, Pooja Lakshmin, Alison Schafer, Renasha Ghimire, Nagendra P. Luitel, Mark J. D. Jordans, and Brandon A. Kohrt describe GroupACT, an observational tool for assessing facilitators’ capacity to provide effective and safe group sessions.

بعد ملاحظة ندرة الأدوات القوية لتقييم مهارات التعلم الاجتماعي العاطفي في ظروف الأزمات وقلة الموارد، فإن المؤلفان «نيخيت د. سا» و «أليسون كروبار» قاما بتطوير مقياس مجاني ومفتوح المصدر للمفهوم الذاتي، والسيطرة على التوتر النفسي، والمثابرة، والتعاطف، وحل الصراع. وأظهر المقياس الدقة والاتساق الداخلي القوي في دراسة التحقق على 620 طفل سوري يعيشون في العراق.

Noting the dearth of robust tools for assessing SEL skills in low-resource and crisis settings, authors Nikhit D’Sa and Allyson Krupar developed a cost-free, open-source measure of self-concept, stress management, perseverance, empathy, and conflict resolution. The measure showed reliability and strong internal consistency in a validation study among 620 Syrian children living in Iraq.

This paper reviews the available data sources on refugee education that could contribute to SDG4 monitoring for refugees, covering access, learning, protection and safety. It examines a range of sources to understand where data lies across the data value chain.

This literature review seeks to better understand what worked and what did not work in education interventions during the first wave of COVID-19, in order to support planning on current and future school closures and/or disruptions to education systems.