Abstract
Early Childhood Consultation Partnership program in Connecticut is an important part of American children mental health consultation project. This program provides children from birth to five years old with mental health consultation service, including Child-specific Services, Core Classroom Services, and Intensive Site Services. This paper mainly uses literature method to sort out content, operation and management in ECCP program, in order to inspire children's mental health services in China. Based on the experience of Connecticut, the authors suggest that China should pay more attention to children’s mental health and integrate all sources to establish a service for children’s mental health.
Highlights
Children’s mental health problem has been translated into Children’s mental hygiene problem
More than 4,500 papers were searched on the theme of “Children's Mental Health”, but more than 70% of them were about mental health problems of left-behind children or boarding children, while there was almost no information on children's mental health detection and prevention"; nearly over a hundred papers were searched on the theme of “Psychological Health Consultation", while there is almost no research about children's psychological counseling
In the "Provisional Work Procedures for Kindergartens" issued by the National Education Commission and the "Working Regulations for Kindergartens" released officially, it emphasizes that the harmonious development of children's body and mind should be promoted and the work of physiological and mental health care for children should be done well [14] "
Summary
Children’s mental health problem has been translated into Children’s mental hygiene problem. Children’s mental health consultation aims to build the capacity (improve the ability) of staff and families to help solve mental health problems among children from birth to age six [2]. The Early Childhood Consultation Partnership is a free mental health counseling program in Connecticut, USA that provides mental health counseling services for children from birth to age five who may be rejected by childcare settings due to mental health problems. ECCP’s model includes the three core levels of service delivery: Child-specific Services, Core Classroom Services, and Intensive Site Services. These consultation services are designed on a continuum, such that one service segues into the broadening the focus from an individual child to a whole classroom to an entire center [3]. Despite variations in the breadth of focus, there are several common service elements that span across each level: screening/ assessment, observation, and action plan development and support
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