PLEASE NOTE - Registration for this event is currently full. Please email dina.johnson@ucdenver.edu if you'd like to be on a waiting list. Thank you! Day 1: Overview – This session will provide an overview of the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, Revised (DC:0-3R), which was created to address the lack of and the need for an appropriate system for diagnosing children in the first three years of life. This diagnostic system focuses on young children’s experience, particularly their emotional and developmental problems and adaptive functioning. Clinicians who have had training in the past and would like a review of the information are welcome to attend this session only. Administrators and/or early childhood professionals who are not planning to implement the diagnostic system in practice but would like to understand its basic tenets will also benefit from this overview session only. Day 2: Intensive Case Discussion - This presentation will prepare early childhood clinicians to utilize the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, Revised (DC:0-3R), by providing in-depth discussion of the classification system and its five axes. Participants will discuss cases of young children using a case presentation. The case example will illustrate how DC:0-3R can be utilized in clinical assessments. Clinicians who have received previous training in DC:0-3R and would like an opportunity to participate in case discussion may attend this session only, but need to provide documentation of prior training on the online registration form under “comments”. Presenters: Karen A. Frankel, Ph.D., Director, Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health, Director, Kempe Therapeutic Preschool. Dr. Frankel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Frankel is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing for 20 years in the treatment and assessment of children under the age of 6. Dr. Frankel is a national trainer for the DC:0-3R diagnostic system and participates in the coordinated statewide training efforts of the SAMSHA supported BLOOM systems of care grant. She is currently the director of a postdoctoral training program in infant mental health, supervising psychologist for the University of Colorado Hospital Outpatient Infant Psychiatry Clinic, as well as director of a psychiatric day treatment program for maltreated preschoolers. On Day 2, Intensive Case Discussions will be facilitated by DC:0-3 Trainers. Audience: The overview and case discussion training will focus on assessment and diagnosis of mental health issues in young children. The full Introductory Training (Days 1 and 2) will be useful to psychologists, child psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals who plan to implement the system in their practice. The Overview will be useful to administrators and other early childhood professionals who provide assessment and/or intervention services to young children and families, including pediatricians and pediatric nurses, and physical, occupational or speech therapists and early childhood educators working on interdisciplinary teams. Registration deadline is August 13, 2008.
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