study by highlighting successful strategies for building strong relationships, engaging families and parents representing diverse cultures and languages, and evaluating and nurturing readiness
for early childhood mental health consultation.
The term experts in
early childhood mental health consultation includes the consultant as well as Head Start and Early Head Start program staff and families; each staff member viewed as expert in their own field (early care and education, health, family partnerships, etc.) and families as experts in their child's development and knowledge of their own child, family, and community.
Describe three evidence - based interventions used in early childhood mental health consultation models
Research
on early childhood mental health consultation shows that HS / EHS programs who are in strong agreement with their mental health consultant about a philosophy or approach to providing mental health services demonstrated higher levels of best practice implementation and reported better perceived outcomes for children and staff (Green, Simpson, Everhart, Vale, & Gettman, 2004).
Early childhood mental health consultation aims to build the capacity (improve the ability) of staff, families, programs, and systems to prevent, identify, treat and reduce the impact of mental health problems among children from birth to age 6 and their families.
Enhancing Home Visitation With Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Mackrain & Mytton - Ortega (2013) Zero to Three, 33 (5) View Abstract Illustrates one home visitation programs efforts to
integrate early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) and highlights the consultations role in supporting the home visitor through reflective case consultation and collaboration to strengthen the family in need.
In addition, Dickstein conducts program evaluation for a variety of state - funded contracts and private foundation grants that provide community -
based early childhood mental health consultation, and evidence - based parent and teacher training workshops, within child care settings serving high risk infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families.
The significant landmarks on this timeline include
defining early childhood mental health consultation, establishing the evidence base that consultation works, determining factors that contribute to effective consultation, and building the capacity of states and communities to deliver and evaluate ECMHC services.
Source: The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning This synthesis has been developed to
describe early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) and the existing evidence base for its effectiveness in fostering healthy social and emotional development in young children, birth through age 6.
This brief from the Child Health and Development Institute describes the results of a rigorous random - controlled evaluation of a statewide system
of early childhood mental health consultation for early education and child care programs.
For states, communities, programs, and grant funded projects that are developing or have developed
early childhood mental health consultation programs and want to assess their impact, this tool kit provides guidance, tools, and resources that will assist in designing and implementing program evaluations.
In 1999, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded funding to the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD) to explore key questions
about early childhood mental health consultation, including the most basic: «What is it?»