WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2-22-2024
Publication Title
WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Cultural Context, Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment, Volume Two
Abstract
Understanding children in the context of relationships is central to the Infant Mental Health (IMH) assessment. This chapter will review core components of caregiver-child relationship assessments, highlighting the impact of social, economic, cultural, historical, and political contexts on these relationships, the family-assessor relationship, and the assessor’s interpretation of the relationship. Paradigms, including DC:0-5™‘s Cultural Formulation (ZERO TO THREE, Diagnostic classification of mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood. Revised edition (DC:0-5). Author, 2016) and the Irving Harris Foundation Diversity-Informed Tenets (St. John MS, Thomas K, Noroña CR, ZERO TO THREE J 33(2):13-22, 2012), will be used to support the assessor cultivating cultural humility and critical self-reflection and to increase the assessor’s appreciation of complexities within the caregiver-child relationship while decreasing bias.
First Page
187
Last Page
205
Chapter Title
13 - Diversity-Informed Practice for Parent/Caregiver Relationship Assessment
ISBN
[9783031486319, 9783031486302]
Recommended Citation
Ross-Donaldson, Sharon; Noroña, Carmen Rosa; Dickson, Amy; and Kronenberg, Mindy, "WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health" (2024). School of Medicine Faculty Publications. 3013.
https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/som_facpubs/3013
10.1007/978-3-031-48631-9_13