This data, including geographic, cultural, linguistic, and racial composition of the community as well as culturally relevant community resources, will inform the mental
health consultation services approach, design, and delivery.
Not exact matches
School's In for Refugees: A whole - school
approach to supporting students of refugee background (2011) is a resource that has been produced in
consultation with teachers and others in the community,
health, family
services and education sectors.
Working with a «cultural broker» to understand how to sensitively
approach families about mental
health and help families» understand and accept mental
health consultation services.
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).
These principles have also influenced the program's
approach to mental
health services and supports for children, families, and staff, including mental
health consultation services.
Research on early childhood mental
health consultation (ECMHC) shows that Head Start / Early Head Start programs who are in strong agreement with their mental
health consultant about a philosophy or
approach to providing children's mental
health services perceived their consultant to be more involved, demonstrated higher levels of «best practice» implementation, and reported better perceived outcomes for children and staff (Green, Simpson, Everhart, Vale, & Gettman, 2004).
Under the direction of Drs. Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon, the Collaborative Problem Solving Center provides clinical
services, training, and
consultation to assist education, mental
health, and medical professionals and parents in understanding and implementing the Collaborative Problem SolvingSM (CPS)
approach.
The contributors to this issue of Zero to Three describe a range of
services and supports to address challenging behavior and support early social and emotional competence: A model of early childhood mental
health consultation to reduce the rate of preschool expulsion; how child care professionals and parents can have useful conversations around sensitive behavioral issues; an
approach to coaching early educators to prevent and manage challenging behavior in the classroom; a parent — infant play group to build parenting skills; the treatment of common sleep issues; and a program of support to strengthen military families when a parent returns from deployment.
One of the centers, Friendly Head Start, has two components to their mental
health services and
approach: mental
health consultation and staff wellness.
Our team's
approach is grounded in a set of principles and a research - based model of delivering high quality mental
health consultation services.
It is important to note that the
approach that we are describing here for outcome - based continuous program improvement does not strive to achieve a high level of scientific rigor that would involve the use of comparison groups or other strategies to determine whether the mental
health services and
consultation «caused» specific outcomes.
HREOC urges the Committee to recognise that
consultations for partnership with Aboriginal community controlled
health services must be followed - up by a realistic assessment of the inputs and
approaches necessary to achieve those successful partnerships, and by the implementation of resources to match those levels of need.