Description: Integrating infant mental health services into early education programs leads to better child outcomes and stronger parent-child relationships. This accessible introductory textbook fully prepares early childhood professionals and programs to weave best practices in mental health into their everyday work. Ideal for preservice university courses, in-service professional development, and ready reference by program administrators, this text combines the authoritative guidance of more than a dozen respected mental health and early childhood experts. Professionals will get a primer on infant mental health, strengthening their knowledge of key issues such as screening and assessment, attachment, emotional dysregulation, maternal depression, and children's exposure to trauma. Then they'll get practical, research-based guidance they can use to: -Recognize indicators of mental health problems in very young children -Promote parents' and caregivers' mental health -build on child and family strengths and mitigate risk factors -Strengthen parent-child relationships and interactions -Maintain their own mental health, reducing the effects of compassion fatigue -participate in reflective supervision -Conduct sound program evaluation -Work effectively with outside mental health consultants
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Series: Early Childhood Education
Type: Text Book
Language: English
Publication Name: Understanding Early Childhood Mental Health
Author: Susan Janko Summers & Rachel Chazan-Cohen
Subject: Health Education
Number of Pages: 265
