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The Central Regional Resource Center for Behavioural and Emotional Difficulties
(MKA)
Trondheim, Norway.
MKA is a private organized special– and
sociopedagogical center on matters concerning the education
of children and young people with behavioural and emotional
difficulties. We offer our services to preschools, schools,
educational and psychological services and residential care
units. Our main work is to train the staff and together
with them develop and implement strategies and practicies to
improve the childrens social and educational development.
We are located in Trondheim and consist of three specialists
in the field of education and social studies: Arne Tveit (arne@mka.no),
Arnt Ollestad (arnt@mka.no)
and Bjørn Arnesen (bjorn@mka.no)
Our main workload is directed to the central region of
Norway and we collaborate with different professional
environments in the region and nationwide. In the
following we present major areas and topics we are involved
in:
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Multisystemic approach : Carolyn Webster-Stratton
from Seattle,USA, has developed four programmes within the same framework
directed towards young children with conduct and
behaviour problems. The program is called The Incredible years
Training series for Parents, Techers and Children(www.incredibleyears.com).
The Department of Health in Norway has in collaboration
with the Universities in Trondheim and Tromsø conducted
a replication study of the children and parent
program. The results from the study will be
presented in 2006. The main objective of the study is to
see if the positive results that have been made in the
family and children programme in the US can be
replicated here in Norway. Webster- Strattons teacher
programme has been tried out in parts of the
country, mainly in the Trondheim and Tromsø
region. We in MKA have been involved since 2001 in
trying out and implimenting the Webster- Stratton
Teacher training programme . A greater
research study on the outcome and consequences from
using the teacher programme will be carried out
from 2007. The staff of MKA are all certified group
leaders in the Parent program as well as the Teacher
program and Arne Tveit and Bjørn Arnsen are mentors in
the Teacher program and are working at implementing the
program across the country.
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A translation of an article on praise
published i Spesialpedagogikk (Spec-ed journal) nr
10/2009 click here
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Inclusive education for children under
care: Another field we have been
oriented towards is the challenges connected to the
education of children under care within an inclusive
environment. We have participated in and evaluated
different projects within this field and also published
articles and papers
(click here).
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Alternative education: An additional question that
concerns us is the development of alternative
educational settings and how mainstream schools , both
elementary and secondary, can import ideas and be
influenced by these alternative schools. We have
participated at conferences and published articles and
papers
(click here) on these issues too.
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Guidance and consultancy:
We also do a great deal of professional guidance and
have since 1997 been working at adopting Adrian Wards (adrian.ward@uea.ac.uk)
framework for “Opportunity led work”
See article
(http://www.uea.ac.uk/swk/people/faculty/AW.htm)
into a Norwegian and mainly educational context. We call
it ”Decision oriented guidance” and have introduced
this method to a number of schools and institutions in
the region. See articles and presentation.
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International
cooperation: The European
Project for Ethnic & Cultural Equality (EUROPEACE) is a
network of 6 projects from the UK, The Netherlands,
Slovakia, Serbia , Norway and Bulgaria. MKA
is the Norwegian partner.www.europeace.org.uk The purpose is to
develop a multi agency partnership framework to develop
and implement innovative methods of youth work and of
the international co-operation, training and information
related to it. The Europeace project recognises that
society is weaker and more prone to conflict, social
tensions and violent exclusion if discrimination goes
unchallenged. .The focus: discrimination and the violence
which often results from it.A parallel aim is to
establish meaningful internet cooperation and informal
exchange of information.
To
everyone who has clicked into our homepage, we hope you
will take further contact or take an interest in some of
the work we have done. For contact details :
click
here
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