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Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health

Understanding the Field of Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health

All Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health professionals are:

  • Family-centered, developmentally informed & culturally responsive

  • Transdisciplinary: Work together with team members to pool and integrate the team’s expertise to provide a common set of intervention goals for the child and their family

  • Promoting mental health, preventing mental health challenges and/or treating mental illness

  • Trained and experienced in the following key knowledge areas:

IFECMH Key Knowledge Areas:

Parenting, Family Functioning, and Parent-Child Relationships

Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Development

Diagnosis and Intervention

Risk and Resiliency

Observation, Screening and Assessment

Biological and Psychosocial Factors Impacting Outcomes

Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Ethics

Clinical Experience and Reflective Practice

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California Training Guidelines and Personnel Competencies for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health 

This document provides a framework that outlines a coherent foundation of the knowledge and skills necessary to work with very young children and their families with a focus on early relationships and early mental health.  The competencies provide information regarding becoming endorsed in California as an Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health provider.