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Professional Development Trainings

DC:0-5 Infant & Early ChildhoodMental Health Disorders Trainings

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Jamie Elzea, MSW, MPH, LICSW, IMH-E® is a clinician endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor and was the first DC:0-5 Certified Trainer In Washington state by Zero to Three.

 

As the former Executive Director of the Washington Infant Mental Health Association she led the Prenatal through Five subgroup of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Workgroup to enact Medicaid policy changes that better support developmentally appropriate assessment and diagnosis.

 

She is a champion for the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health workforce and loves supporting professionals in continued learning and growth.

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Diagnosing Early Childhood Mental Health: 

DC:0-5 for Clinicians  

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The DC:0-5 Clinical Training provides history and background around the need and development of a specialized diagnostic classification system for infancy and early childhood, approaches in diagnosis from an Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health perspective which is

  • Developmentally informed

  • Relationship based

  • Contextual and

  • Culturally competent

 

Participants will learn about the multi-axial approach to diagnosis as well understanding the contents of each axis including Axis I clinical disorders.

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Through the course of this training, attendees will have hands on practice to us the DC:0-5 to work through the axes with case examples. 

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12 CEUs

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Early Childhood Mental Health Disorders for Allied Professionals 

 DC:0-5 Overview Training for 0-5 Allied Professionals

 (3 hours)

 

Recommended for mental/behavioral health and allied early childhood services agency supervisors, administrators, and direct service allied professionals across a wide variety of fields that serve children and families prenatal through five

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The DC:0-5 Allied Overview Training provides history and background around the need and development of a specialized diagnostic classification system for infancy and early childhood, approaches in diagnosis from an Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health perspective which is:

  • Developmentally informed

  • Relationship based

  • Contextual and

  • Culturally competent

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