Sentences with phrase «other early childhood mental health consultants»

Helping consultants get to know other early childhood mental health consultants can also be important to supporting the consultant professionally.

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Purpose and Overall Goal The purpose of this tutorial is to provide a detailed description of early childhood mental health consultation, including how it differs from other mental health interventions, and to provide an overview of the essential roles that mental health consultants play.

In a national cross-site study of effective early childhood mental health consultation programs, 69 % of consultants reported making at least monthly referrals to other community resources for early care and education providers and 72 % reported making at least monthly referrals for families (Duran et al., 2009).

Although many prevention and best practice strategies were shared in modules 2 - 4, there are times when early childhood mental health consultants and the other adults in a child's life are worried about a child's behavior and prevention strategies are not warranting positive change.

Early childhood mental health consultation is a relationship - based, collaborative process to address a specific developmental, behavioral, or mental health concern and build capacity that engages all partners — families, staff, consultant - in the context of an ECE setting or other organization where the child is being served (Cohen & Kaufmann, 2005).

An early childhood mental health consultant needs to have a firm grasp of social and emotional milestones and support strategies so they are confident and competent in modeling and coaching others to use similar practices.

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: