Issues in Early Childhood Mental Health

Issues in Early Childhood Mental Health is a 32 hour seminar-style course, designed primarily for licensed mental health professionals who work with three to six-year-olds and provide consultation to their caregivers. Created by Deborah Hirschland, LICSW, the course focuses on creative approaches to helping young children who are experiencing difficulty with emotional, behavioral and/or social competencies.

Issues in Early Childhood Mental Health integrates both theoretical and practical considerations about the nature of consultation with caregivers (parents, teachers and child care providers) and focuses particular attention to how clinicians can support warm and reliable relationships between children and the adults who care for them. It provides a framework for classroom-focused mentoring and intervention, parent and teacher training, and effective strategies for working with families. Additional topics explored in the seminar series include the impact of trauma as well as ways to support traumatized children and the caregivers upon whom these children rely for healing.

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