While the primary audience for the tutorial is
early childhood mental health consultants working in Head Start and other early childhood settings, administrators may find this tutorial useful for increasing their understanding the:
Special thanks to
those early childhood mental health consultants working in Head Start, Early Head Start, and Migrant Head Start programs who provided vignettes and case studies as teaching tools for this tutorial.
Not exact matches
Early childhood mental health consultants can use information from this tutorial to strengthen their understanding of how to facilitate strong partnerships with families within the consultation approach and overcome common barriers, building a framework within which the quality
work begins and develops.
This resource is designed to support your
work as an
early childhood mental health consultant.
The method is particularly relevant to
early childhood mental health consultants who face the challenges of
working with families and young children of diverse cultures and helping staff and families to negotiate and dialogue cultural differences.
Describe the state of
work force development and preparation for
early childhood mental health consultants
Early childhood mental health consultants promote healthy development by
working to support social and emotional wellness in all young children and make every effort to prevent the occurrence or escalation of social and emotional problems in children at - risk.
For the purposes of this tutorial, cultural competence is defined as a set of values and principles, behaviors, attitudes, policies, and practices that enable
early childhood mental health consultants to
work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
Arkansas» Project PLAY (Positive Learning for Arkansas» Youngest)
consultants work out of community
health centers in nine regions of the state to provide
early childhood mental health consultation to licensed child care programs.
Describes Colorado's
work to promote
early childhood social and emotional development through the use of
mental health consultants in schools and child care programs.
This statement provided recommendations for expulsion and suspension practices in
early childhood settings, including advocating for teachers» access to
mental health consultants to provide specialized support and to build their own skills in
working effectively with young children and families.
Obstetricians, midwives, labor and delivery and postpartum nurses, doulas, childbirth educators, lactation
consultants, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, infant
mental health professionals, pre - and postnatal yoga instructors,
early childhood educators, counselors, or anyone interested in the
health and well - being of families, infants and children may well find the program of value to their
work — and their lives.
Early childhood mental health consultants can help identify and
work in partnership with families and caregivers to remediate problems that surface.
Some
mental health consultants, referred to as infant mental health specialists, have specialized training in working with families and very young children, birth to three years (see Infant Mental Health Specialists and Early Childhood Mental Health Consulta
health consultants, referred to as infant
mental health specialists, have specialized training in working with families and very young children, birth to three years (see Infant Mental Health Specialists and Early Childhood Mental Health Consulta
health specialists, have specialized training in
working with families and very young children, birth to three years (see Infant
Mental Health Specialists and Early Childhood Mental Health Consulta
Health Specialists and
Early Childhood Mental Health Consulta
Health Consultation).
Early childhood mental health consultants are professionals with
mental health expertise who also have knowledge, and experience related to
working with young children (birth to five) and their families.