A Training Guide for the Early Childhood Community

By Kathy Hepburn, Roxane Kaufmann, Kris Hansen, and Joan Dodge, 2005

The Training Guide accompanies the monograph Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, offering a learning process and text for designing, defining, and implementing mental health consultation. The Guide includes an overview and 4 training modules written in a format to support the trainer’s planning, preparation, and presentation. The modules are:

• Valuing and Understanding Mental Health Consultation
• The Effective Mental Health consultant
• The Importance of a Collaborative Relationship
• Understanding Challenges and Developing Strategies

These publications can be accessed electronically through the following internet World Wide Web connection: www.samhsa.gov by title or by the respective link http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/svp05-0151B

For additional free copies of this document, please call SAMHSA’S National Mental Health Information Center at 1-800-789-2647.