They are a group of highly skilled practitioners from multiple health and human service, developmental, and educational disciplines, including early intervention, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech and language pathology, special education, human development, audiology, social work, and pediatrics. They provide direct services to pregnant women, infants, toddlers and preschoolers and their families. These practitioners have the most frequent contact with infants and very young children and their families and are the most likely individuals to provide promotion and preventive mental health interventions.http://cacenter-ecmh.org/professional-development/categories/transdisciplinary-mental-health-practitioner-tmhp-and-mental-health-specialist-mhs/
And check this out, the California Training Guidelines and Personnel Competencies for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health, Revised. It defines the universe of competencies assumed necessary to do the work. -gw
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