Center for Mental Health Promotion
Enhancing parental qualities, and providing support
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What’s needed:
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Provide funding to increase the accessibility of programs that help parents with responsiveness and sensitive limit setting
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Integrate credentialing to insure quality services are provided
from Zero to Three:
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
From The Center on the Developing Child- Harvard University:
Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
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Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function
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Articles:
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Mentalizing Makes Parenting Work: A Review about Parental Reflective Functioning and Clinical Interventions to Improve It
Parental Reflective Functioning: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications
Parental Reflective Functioning: An approach to enhancing parent-child relationships in pediatric primary care
The Multiple Determinants of Maternal Parenting Stress 12 Months After Birth: The Contribution of Antenatal Attachment Style, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Infant Temperament
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For further information, please see the section Parent Support Programs