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Collaborating to Care for the Mental Health of Young Children
What You’ll Learn:
- Participants will describe how early adversity and traumatic stress impacts young children’s mental health and life course
- Participants will learn about screening tools and strategies to apply to increase identification of mental health concerns in young children.
- Participants will define essential components of collaborative care for young children and their families served in primary care.
Infant Mental Health in Primary Care Settings
What You’ll Learn:
- Define Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH)
- Understand the prevalence rates and outcomes of untreated early childhood mental health disorders.
- Describe medical and mental health providers’ role in IECMH within a pediatric setting
- Identify strategies to integrate mental health into busy pediatric workflow
Surveillance and Screening for Young Children in Pediatric Primary Care
What You’ll Learn:
- Define and understand the difference between surveillance and screening in early childhood
- Discuss strategies to engage families of young children in developmental surveillance
- Identify early childhood screening measures to use in pediatric primary care
- Learn strategies for reviewing results of screeners with families of young children
