This book provides a step-by-step guide to integrating early childhood behavioral health care into primary care with hands-on advice for creating, implementing, and evaluating programs. It discusses the unique advantages of pediatric primary care as a setting for mental health services from birth into the early school years, particularly for addressing parent/child stress and trauma issues. Contributors illustrate in depth how bringing behavioral health into pediatric services can engender care that is replicable and sustainable, not only cost-effective but also clinically effective. Guidelines and case examples from frontline practitioners highlight typical challenges and workable recommendations.Among the featured topics:• The fit between early intervention programs and primary care. • Staffing, workforce development, and funding issues.• On-the-job teamwork concerns, from time constraints to continuity of care.• Culturally competent care geared toward key child care issues.• Intervening with parents of young children in the integrated pediatric setting.Integrated Early Childhood Behavioral Health in Primary Care is an essential resource for clinicians/practitioners, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, pediatrics, and social work.
This book provides a step-by-step guide to integrating early childhood behavioral health care into primary care with hands-on advice for creating, implementing, and evaluating programs. It discusses the unique advantages of pediatric primary care as a setting for mental health services from birth into the early school years, particularly for addressing parent/child stress and trauma issues. Contributors illustrate in depth how bringing behavioral health into pediatric services can engender care that is replicable and sustainable, not only cost-effective but also clinically effective. Guidelines and case examples from frontline practitioners highlight typical challenges and workable recommendations.
Among the featured topics:
• The fit between early intervention programsand primary care.• Staffing, workforce development, and funding issues.• On-the-job teamwork concerns, from time constraints to continuity of care.• Culturally competent care geared toward key child care issues.• Intervening with parents of young children in the integrated pediatric setting.
Integrated Early Childhood Behavioral Health in Primary Care is an essential resource for clinicians/practitioners, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, pediatrics, and social work.
Outlines the implementation of integrated early childhood behavioral health programming into pediatric primary care Explores the process of programming, evaluation, reimbursement, silos, and workforce training Details the effects of toxic stress and the scientific basis for prevention and intervention during early childhood Examines universal screening for early childhood social-emotional and developmental problems? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Rahil D. Briggs
Adverse childhood experiences Early childhood behavioral health programming Early childhood brain development Early childhood mental health Healthy Steps for Young Children Integrated pediatric behavioral health Intergenerational interventions Parent-child relationships Parental mental health and wellbeing Prevention and intervention in early childhood Preventive mental health care Primary care pediatrics Programming models Reimbursement models Social emotional and developmental problems