Download or read book Integrating Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation with the Pyramid Model Issue Brief written by Deborah F. Perry and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing number of states and communities are implementing the Pyramid Model in early care and education settings, and in many of these places there are also early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) programs operating. This policy brief provides an overview of ECMHC, how it can support the implementation of the Pyramid Model and the policy issues that arise when administrators seek to integrate these two approaches at the state and local levels. Mental health consultants can: (1) serve as coaches for implementing the Pyramid practices; (2) serve as adjuncts to coaches, by working with children, families and teachers; and (3) use the Pyramid Model to inform and organize their own strategies for working with teachers and families. (Contains 1 figure.).

Download or read book Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation written by U.s. Department of Health and Human Services and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this tool kit is to increase the capacity for high-quality evaluation of early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) in community based settings. For states, communities, programs, and grant funded projects that are developing or have developed early childhood mental health consultation programs and want to assess their impact, this tool kit provides guidance, tools, and resources that will assist in designing and implementing program evaluations. For researchers, this tool kit also will help guide their work in research design and evaluation, determining evidence of effective practices, and decision-making related to tools and approaches to partnering with program staff. And for policy makers seeking to encourage strong program evaluations of funded projects, it should provide a template for crafting request for proposals for outside evaluators. The text and materials that follow focus on:1. Defining early childhood mental health consultation services;2. Designing and incorporating evaluation for early childhood mental health consultation services, identifying measures, and determining outcomes; and3. Using evaluation data to report service outcomes and to help build the evidence base related to early childhood mental health consultation services.The tool kit addresses early childhood mental health consultation and essential features of evaluating these services with attention to:• The evidence base: Current issues and questions• Early childhood mental health consultation: Defining characteristics and core features• High quality evaluation: Components of evaluation• Evaluation tools: Measuring process and outcomes• Using the data: Integrating evaluation into program improvement and communicating outcomesEach section includes case study illustrations from early childhood mental health consultation services and program evaluation efforts in the state of Maryland and a Key Questions Checklist reviewing key points raised in the text.

Download or read book Policy and Practice Challenges for Equality in Education written by Neimann, Theresa and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-educated populations are important aspects of any contemporary society, as education increases national and global development and the positive expansion of communities to participate actively in civil matters also increases. Educational equality is based on the principles of administrative competence and fairness of access and distribution of resources, opportunities, and treatment, which ensures success for every person. Ensuring equal access to quality education requires addressing a wide range of persistent inequalities in society and includes a stronger focus on how different forms of inequalities intersect to produce unequal opportunities or outcomes that affect marginalized and vulnerable groups. Policy and Practice Challenges for Equality in Education takes a multifaceted look at issues of equality and inequality in education as related to policy, practice, resource access, and distribution. As such, this book explores the potential practices in education that serve to mitigate and transform unproductive practices which have left societies scarred by social and educational inequalities. The chapters provide a critical analysis of the manifestations of inequalities in various educational contexts and discerns how broader social inequalities are informed by education-related matters. This book is ideal for sociologists, administrators, instructors, policymakers, data scientists, community leaders, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in educational equality and the unique challenges being faced worldwide.

Download or read book Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood written by Mojdeh Bayat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A copublication with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood focuses on research-based strategies for educators to address challenging behaviors of children during early childhood and elementary school years. Utilizing research from the fields of neuroscience, child development, child psychiatry, counselling and applied behavior analysis, the author suggests simple strategies for teachers to manage behaviors and promote mental health and resilience in children with challenging behaviors. Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood provides a framework for best practices which are empirically based and have been successfully utilized in the classroom. An appreciation of the deep understanding of culture as it affects curricular approaches, family engagement, and child growth and development is utilized throughout this comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource. Bayat references the most recent research in the field of child mental health and provides educational and intervention approaches that are appropriate for all children with and without disabilities.

Download or read book Mental Health Consultation in Early Childhood written by Paul J. Donahue and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors provide suggestions, techniques and insight in to how mental health professional can make collaboration work.'

Download or read book Mental Health Consultation in Child Care written by Kadija Johnston and published by Zero to Three. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Health Consultation in Infant?Toddler Child Care addresses the impact of the caregiver'child relationship on the mental health of young children. As young children spend more and more time in child care programs, those programs have an increasingly significant effect on their healthy social and emotional development. Kadija Johnston and Charles Brinnamen review current theory and offer practical suggestions for improving relationships between program directors, staff, parents, children, and mental-health consultants to help identify and remove obstacles to quality care. The authors also offer real-life examples of effective programmatic functioning, interstaff and parent'staff relationships, and direct child interventions. Mental health professionals at all levels, early childhood educators and trainers, and policy makers will find this book useful guide to making positive changes in the childcare environment.

Download or read book Mental Health in Early Intervention written by Gilbert M. Foley and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgently needed text integrates two interdependent fields, introducing mental health concepts to early intervention supervisors and students and teaching mental health professionals more about early intervention.;

Download or read book Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 63% of children in the United States between the ages of birth and five years spend time in child care every week. Child care providers caring for these children report that challenging behaviors are one of the greatest challenges they face when working with children. Addressing these challenging behaviors in the early years is essential for promoting school readiness and healthy social emotional development. Early childhood mental health consultation has been shown to improve teacher skills and self-efficacy, leading to a decrease in challenging behaviors and promotion of social emotional development in the child care setting. In order to create an environment for children which is supportive at all levels behaviors in the home must also be incorporated into the work of the early childhood mental health consultant. This project will explore best practices for early mental health consultants working in the child care and home environments and provide a guide for consistent, evidence based application of behavior management techniques to be utilized by early childhood mental health consultants.

Download or read book Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Programs and the Effect on Protective Factors and Behavioral Concerns of Preschool Children written by Laurel May Olvera and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Early Childhood Education written by Robert C. Pianta and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and authoritative, this forward-thinking book reviews the breadth of current knowledge about early education and identifies important priorities for practice and policy. Robert C. Pianta and his associates bring together foremost experts to examine what works in promoting all children's school readiness and social-emotional development in preschool and the primary grades. Exemplary programs, instructional practices, and professional development initiatives?and the systems needed to put them into place?are described. The volume presents cutting-edge findings on the family and social context of early education and explores ways to strengthen collaboration between professionals and parents.

Download or read book Handbook of Positive Behavior Support written by Wayne Sailor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolution in working with difficult students began during the 1980s, with a dramatic shift away from dependence on simply punishing bad behavior to reinforcing desired, positive behaviors of children in the classroom. With its foundation in applied behavior analysis (ABA), positive behavior support (PBS) is a social ecology approach that continues to play an increasingly integral role in public education as well as mental health and social services nationwide. The Handbook of Positive Behavior Support gathers into one concise volume the many elements of this burgeoning field and organizes them into a powerful, dynamic knowledge base – theory, research, and applications. Within its chapters, leading experts, including the primary developers and researchers of PBS: (1) Review the origins, history, and ethical foundations of positive behavior support. (2) Report on applications of PBS in early childhood and family contexts, from Head Start to foster care to mental health settings to autism treatment programs. (3) Examine school-based PBS used to benefit all students regardless of ability or conduct. (4) Relate schoolwide PBS to wraparound mental health services and the RTI (response to intervention) movement. (5) Provide data and discussion on a variety of topics salient to PBS, including parenting issues, personnel training, high school use, poorly functioning schools, and more. This volume is an essential resource for school-based practitioners as well as clinicians and researchers in clinical child, school, and educational psychology.

Download or read book Handbook of Infant Mental Health Fourth Edition written by Charles H. Zeanah and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely revised and updated edition reflects tremendous advances in theory, research and practice that have taken place over the past decade. Grounded in a relational view of infancy, the volume offers a broad interdisciplinary analysis of the developmental, clinical and social aspects of mental health from birth to age three.

Download or read book Building an Early Childhood Professional Development System Issue Brief written by National Governors' Association. Center for Best Practices and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge, skills, and practices of early childhood care providers and teachers are critical factors in their delivery of high-quality developmental and educational experiences to young children. However, studies have found that the majority of professionals that make up the current early childhood workforce are not adequately prepared. Recent national policy research indicates that systemic shifts are needed for states to effectively prepare, recruit, support, and retain a high-quality early childhood workforce. In 2008, the National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) Early Childhood Workforce Systems Initiative produced "Workforce Designs: A Policy Blueprint for State Early Childhood Professional Development Systems," which provides a series of recommendations around building and sustaining a stable, highly skilled, knowledgeable, diverse, and well-compensated professional workforce. To draft the blueprint, early childhood national experts, state policymakers, program administrators, and other stakeholders were consulted for input on key policies they believed are needed to support integrated early childhood education professional development state systems. The NAEYC blueprint identifies six essential areas of policy for an integrated state early childhood professional development system: professional standards, career pathways, articulation, governance, data, and financing. This Issue Brief includes excerpts from and builds off the NAEYC blueprint and identifies the initial steps governors can take to build a comprehensive early childhood professional development system. (Contains 23 notes.).

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology written by Melissa A. Bray Ph.D. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its roots in clinical and educational psychology, school psychology is an ever-changing field that encompasses a diversity of topics. The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology synthesizes the most vital and relevant literature in all of these areas, producing a state-of-the-art, authoritative resource for practitioners, researchers, and parents. Comprising chapters authored by the leading figures in school psychology, The Oxford Handbook of School Psychology focuses on the significant issues, new developments, and scientific findings that continue to change the practical landscape. The handbook's focuses include: - allegiance to the reciprocal relationship between science and practice to promote problem-solving and enrichment models - service delivery designed to improve competencies of all students - the relationship between general cognitive ability and important life outcomes - the development of viable and enduring educational, family, and community systems to support students - increasing student diversity and the necessity of increased sensitivity to the influences of social, cultural, political, and legislative variables of schooling - outlining tenable reasons why, since the end of World War II, children from kindergarten through the secondary grades have generally not been the recipients of a superior or efficient educational system - all relevant legislation, including the No Child Left Behind Act, and the ongoing question of who or what is responsible for the inadequate academic preparation of inner-city children - building a cumulative knowledge base to better facilitate students' academic, social, and personal competencies including the promotion of positive mental health and subjective well-being The scholarship compiled here is a must-read for practitioners, students, and faculty, and an ideal resource for parents seeking a scientific approach to the efficacy of school psychology practices. In both breadth and depth, this handbook promises to serve as the benchmark reference work for years to come.

Download or read book Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool TPOT for Preschool Classrooms Manual written by Mary Louise Hemmeter and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by highly respected creators of the evidence-based Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children, the TPOT(TM) tool measures how well teachers are implementing the model in classrooms enrolling children

Download or read book Social Emotional Health in Early Childhood written by Deborah F. Perry and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking guide to systems development helps professionals improve young children's social?emotional outcomes by building sturdy bridges between mental health and medical, educational, and social services. A comprehensive, research?based boo

Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.