Social & Emotional Health in Early Childhood Building Bridges Between Services & Systems

Social and emotional health is one of the most critical factors for healthy development and school readiness-a factor that depends on weaving effective mental health services into other systems and programs that support young children. With this groundbreaking guide to systems development, professionals will discover how to improve young children's outcomes by building sturdy bridges between mental health and medical, educational, and social services. Combining the research and guidance of more than two dozen leading experts in early development and education, this book helps practitioners: understand the importance of social and emotional health to school readiness, infuse mental health services and supports into a range of early childhood settings, understand and implement the nuts and bolts of successful, integrated service systems, evaluate the effectiveness of early childhood mental health services and supports, learn valuable lessons from the most successful state and local programs, use evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies with children at risk for social, emotional, and behavior problems. With this comprehensive, research-based book, practitioners and policy makers will learn how to make mental health services and supports an integral part of every early childhood setting-and ensure better social, emotional, and academic outcomes for all young children. Book jacket.Perry, Deborah F. is the author of 'Social & Emotional Health in Early Childhood Building Bridges Between Services & Systems', published 2007 under ISBN 9781557667823 and ISBN 1557667829.