Focuses on the need to increase behavioral screening and offers potential changes in practice and the health care system as well as the research needed to accomplish this.
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Presents research-based screening tools for children under age 5.
Examines the effectiveness of developmental screening on the identification of developmental delays, early intervention (EI) referrals, and EI eligibility.
Houses a collection of materials created for the health care professional working with military families with very young children who may be experiencing significant deployment related challenges.
Captures the substantive content that evolved from the two Research and Resilience workgroup meetings, including discussion points, identified research tools and measures, funding considerations, ethical considerations in conducting research, and exploration of appropriate research methodologies....
Provides an introduction to and list of resources intended to enhance the ability of health care professionals to care for military families, as well as to share additional resources in a manner that hopefully will be easily integrated into their daily practice.
Covers topics such as initiating consultation; getting to know the program; adult relationships; beginning case consultation; gathering information and creating a picture of the child; interpreting behavior and developing hypotheses; and translating hypotheses into responsive action within the ch...
Explores the essential components of effective mental health consultation programs, the skills, competencies, and credentials of effective consultants, the training and supervision needs of consultants, the intervention intensity needs to produce good outcomes, and more.
Synthesizes the findings from 26 recent studies that addressed the effectiveness of early childhood mental health consultation with respect to staff- and program-level outcomes. Across the reviewed studies, there is some evidence that early childhood mental health consultation helped increase sta...
Discusses the challenges to estimating the prevalence of serious emotional/behavioral disorder in early childhood, gives a brief review of literature that provides estimates, and provides recommendations to improving the process of estimation.