The product of an 8-year effort by ZERO TO THREE's multidisciplinary Diagnostic Classification Task Force, DC: 0-3 gives clinicians and researchers a comprehensive, multi-axial framework for diagnosing emotional and developmental problems in the first three years of life.

Diagnostic Classif Of Mental Health & Develop Disord Of Infancy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Zero to Three

Mental Health

Natl Center for Clinical

DC:0-3 was the first developmentally based system for diagnosing mental health and developmental disorders in infants and toddlers. Its diagnostic categories reflected the consensus of a multidisciplinary group of experts in early childhood development and mental health. The newly revised DC:0-3R draws on empirical research and clinical practice that have occurred worldwide since 1994. DC:0-3R is designed to help mental health and other professionals. The features include: recognize mental health and developmental challenges in young children; understand how relationships and environmental factors contribute to mental health and developmental disorders; use diagnostic criteria effectively for classification and intervention; and work more effectively with parents and other professionals to develop effective treatment plans. DC:0-3R enhances your ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat mental health problems in the earliest years by identifying and describing disorders not addressed in other classification systems and by pointing the way to effective intervention approaches.

Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health And Development Disorders Of Infancy and Early Childhood: DC:0-3R

This guide is designed to help care-givers, program directors, coordinators, administrators, trainers, licensors, families, and leaders in the field of early care and education recognize the special knowledge and skills needed to offer a nurturing group care environment to very young children. Contributors discuss meeting the needs of each individual child, recognizing early developmental stages, achieving necessary health and safety standards, creating good relationships, developing training and mentoring programs, linking with other community-based service systems, providing continuity of care, and being sensitive to cultural and linguistic needs.

Caring for Infants & Toddlers in Groups: Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Lally, J. Ronald

Psychology & Counseling

Behavior Has Meaning: Set of 10 Wheels

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

DC:0-5 captures new findings relevant to diagnosis in young children and addresses unresolved issues in the field since DC:03R was published in 2005. DC:05 is designed to help mental health and other professionals: - recognize mental health and developmental challenges in infants and young children, through 5 years old; - understand that relationships and psychosocial stressors contribute to mental health and developmental disorders and incorporate contextual factors into the diagnostic process; - use diagnostic criteria effectively for classification, case formulation, and intervention; and - facilitate research on mental health disorders in infants and young children.

DC:0-5: Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health And Development Disorders Of Infancy and Early Childhood