Head Start is referred to throughout this tutorial, which includes Head Start, Early Head Start as well as Seasonal and Migrant Head Start, but the concepts shared can also readily be applied to any early childhood
mental health consultation approach.
Identify resources available for conducting a program - wide assessment of the strengths and weakness of your current
mental health consultation approach.
Enhancing Home Visiting With Mental Health Consultation (PDF - 1,190 KB) Goodson, Mackrain, Perry, O'Brien, & Gwaltney (2013) Pediatrics, 132 (Supplement 2) Discusses the early childhood
mental health consultation approach to home visiting, which enhances screening of mothers and families that are high risk for depression, substance use, and other mental health concerns.
Discusses the early childhood
mental health consultation approach to home visiting, which enhances screening of mothers and families that are high risk for depression, substance use, and other mental health concerns.
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.
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).
For
mental health consultation to be most effective, it is important to view
consultation as just one part of supporting a program's overall
approach to child, family and staff
mental health.
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.
However, research and practice in the area of
mental health consultation have begun to identify
consultation approaches that may be more effective in Head Start settings.
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.
Within early childhood
mental health consultation, the
approach acknowledges each child and family's unique set of strengths and challenges, and engages the family as a partner in developing and implementing all steps of
consultation from intake to completion.
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).
Increased funding of
mental health consultations in child care programs would support an evidenced
approach for addressing the needs of children early on in their educational experience.
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.
Introduction
Mental health consultation is a fundamentally different
approach than the traditional one - on - one, treatment relationship for which
mental health practitioners are typically trained.
One of the centers, Friendly Head Start, has two components to their
mental health services and
approach:
mental health consultation and staff wellness.
Infant and early childhood
mental health consultation (IECMHC) is a multilevel
approach to promotion and prevention that teams
mental health professionals with people who work with young children and their families to improve their social, emotional, and behavioral
health and development.
Our team's
approach is grounded in a set of principles and a research - based model of delivering high quality
mental health consultation services.
This monograph broadens the discussion on
mental health consultation and presents
approaches for early childhood programs, facilitates integration of
mental health consultation into early care and education settings, and shares current thinking of program administrators and practitioners on promoting healthy development through
mental health consultation in early childhood settings.
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.