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Mindfulness and Work-Related Functioning Among Head Start Staff
Becker, Brandon Douglas
Becker, Brandon Douglas
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2017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/747
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The quality of human service delivery, in the fields of social welfare, health, and education, is influenced by the quality of the interpersonal relationships between the service provider and the client. Achieving programmatic outcomes in human services requires high-quality social interactions. Early childhood education is a human service delivery model in which workplace functioning requires intensive human interaction. The quality of the social interactions among staff members and between staff and clients (children and their families) is a key factor in how successful these programs are in achieving their goals. Head Start, the nation’s largest publicly-funded early childhood education program, is based on a service model that provides educational, social, and health services through center-based classrooms and/or home visits to low-income children, from gestation through 5 years of age. Despite the importance of interpersonal relationships in Head Start achieving its programmatic goals, little is known about what factors are associated with high levels of functioning as it pertains the interpersonal relationships among staff in Head Start. This dissertation examines the association between dispositional mindfulness and work-related functioning outcomes designed to capture dimensions of or characteristics that promote high interpersonal relationship quality in three distinct Head Start staff types. The implications of the findings for Head Start and other human service delivery models are discussed.
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