Integrating infant mental health practices into Part H: evolution of a local early intervention program.

Within the early intervention community, serving infants and toddlers with developmental delays is a growing realization that social, emotional, and behavioral issues must be addressed along with developmental problems. How one early intervention program has begun the task of making infant mental he...

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Published in:Infants & Young Children: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Early Childhood Intervention Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 73 - 84
Main Author: Steele LS
Format: case study tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 1998 Jul
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Summary:Within the early intervention community, serving infants and toddlers with developmental delays is a growing realization that social, emotional, and behavioral issues must be addressed along with developmental problems. How one early intervention program has begun the task of making infant mental health practice an integral part of its service delivery system is the subject of this article. A critical aspect of this process is planning an incremental process that allows service providers to acclimate to a new paradigm as well as accommodate slim budgets. Copyright (c) 1998 by Aspen Publishers, Inc.