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Considerable evidence demonstrates the importance of experiences in early childhood that provide the foundation for development across multiple developmental domains. Increasingly, opportunities for early intervention include attention to the mental health needs of infants and toddlers. Clinical programs for infants and toddlers provide opportunities for specialists in mental health, physical health, and development to collaborate to formulate an understanding of clinical concerns and strengths. Infant and early childhood psychiatry is a strength-based, prevention-focused subspecialty of child and adolescent psychiatry and one component of the interdisciplinary field of infant and early childhood mental health. Focused on early identification of risk and resilience factors and mental health disorders in infants, young children, and their families, clinical practice in infant and early childhood mental health requires a specialized assessment approach somewhat different from that used with older children and adolescents.
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