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Infants And Toddlers: What They Teach Us About How To Help Preschool And Elementary School Students Regulate Behavior And Achieve Mental Health, Erin Ford
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Looking at early childhood mental health from a policy perspective, this thesis describes practices that support children's social and emotional development and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment approaches that can be used in preschool and elementary school settings; looks at young students' unmet mental health needs in both of these settings; and explores how schools can better address students' problem behaviors and mental health needs. To do so, it describes the field of Infant Mental Health and the supporting research; provides an overview of what the literature suggests preschools and elementary schools can do to support young children's social …
Mental Health Consultation For Nursery School Staff : A Descriptive Analysis, Corinne Willinger
Mental Health Consultation For Nursery School Staff : A Descriptive Analysis, Corinne Willinger
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Mental health consultation to schools has become an important aid to teachers. The mental health consultation service described in this paper attempted to enlarge the teacher's awareness of his role in the development of children's personalities. The nursery school setting used in the study provided opportunities to focus attention on children's behavior patterns and the effect of the teacher's actions and attitudes on children. A consultant and eight teachers met bi-weekly to discuss individual children, parents, groups of children, problems of child behavior, and questions of teachers' attitudes. Excerpts of these meetirigs summarize typical examples of problems encountered. Both teachers …