This intensive 2-day training is for clinicians working with children through age 5.  It is an interactive workshop designed to prepare mental health clinicians to diagnose the mental health and developmental disorders of very young children. Mental health clinicians are introduced to and prepared to use this multi-axial system to diagnose the mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood. Participants will:
• Understand advantages and disadvantages of making diagnoses of infants and young children.
•  Understand mental health and developmental assessment with infants and toddlers emphasizing shared parent-clinician understanding of concerns and strengths as basis for intervention planning
•  Become familiar with the multi-axial diagnostic system for infants and toddlers.
•  Become familiar with the similarities and differences between DSM-IVTR and the DC: 0-3R™ diagnostic system.
•  Be able to use DC: 0-3R’s checklists and rating scales.
 
NOTE:  You are encouraged to purchase your own DC:0-3R manual. It is available for about $21 through Amazon.com at this link (you may need to copy it onto your browser):  http://www.amazon.com/Diagnostic-Classification-Developmental-Disorders-...
If you are unable to purchase your own copy, we will have limited copies for participants to browse through during the training. However, this book is a useful resource for your professional practice.