Diagnostic Classification for Children Birth to Age 5 

Natalie Kendrick, LMFT

September 11th - 13th, 2024 | 8:30am - 12:30pm

Format: Live, in-person

By registering for this course you have a seat in person in the Training Institute. You must attend all 3 days.

CEU's:

12 CEU's (certificate will be awarded to individually submit to your board)

About the Training: 

The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC: 0-5) is an age-appropriate approach for assessing infants, toddlers and preschool children. This tool classifies mental health and developmental disorders in children from birth through five years old considered in relationship to their families, culture and communities. DC: 0-5 also can help to establish whether a child qualifies for early childhood intervention services . Since children go through different developmental stages and life experiences, it is necessary to periodically reassess diagnoses.
  
DHS promotes the use of DC: 0-5 by coordinating statewide training for mental health professionals. Ongoing monthly clinical consultation and supervision groups offer mental health professionals additional feedback and support.

 

Learning Objectives:  

• Learning Objectives:  

  • Participants will be supported in understanding the need for and development of a specialized diagnostic classification system for infancy and early childhood, and adopting approaches to diagnosis and assessment that are developmentally informed, relationship based, and contextually and culturally grounded. 
  • Participants will learn about the mulit-axial approach to diagnosis as well as understanding the contents of each axis including clinical disorders. Activities and case-based learning will support participants in using the many tools in the DC 0-5. 
  • Participants will be able to:
    • Summarize the history of Zero to Three's efforts to develop a diagnostic classification system for infancy/early childhood;
    • Define infant/early childhood mental health;
    • Describe the purpose for using the DC 0-5 to diagnose infants/young children;
    • Explain the recommended approach for diagnosing disorder in infancy/early childhood:
    • Identify DC 0-5 Axes I-V

  You may want to purchase your own copy of the DC 0-5 manual here. (zerotothree.com)