Early Childhood Education

Neurodevelopmental Disorders: DSM-5® Selections is crafted around a specific disorder cited in DSM-5®. This selection provides a comprehensive overview of the process of diagnosing neurodevelopmental disorders while serving as a reference guide to assist in the diagnosis of individual patients.

This coveted resource provides the latest national standards describing evidence-based best practices in nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for early care and education programs. The standards are for all types of early care and education settings--centers and family child care homes.

DC:0-5 is designed to help mental health and other professionals:--recognize mental health and developmental challenges in infants and young children, through 5 years old;- understand that relationships and psychosocial stressors contribute to mental health and developmental disorders and incorporate contextual factors into the diagnostic process;--use diagnostic criteria effectively for classification, case formulation, and intervention; and--facilitate research on mental health disorders in infants and young children. DC:0-5 enhances the professional's ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat mental health problems in the earliest years by identifying and describing disorders not addressed in other classification systems and by pointing the way to effective intervention approaches. Individuals across disciplines-mental health clinicians, counselors, physicians, nurses, early interventionists, social workers, and researchers-will find DC:0-5 to be an essential guide to evaluation and treatment planning with infants, young children, and their families in a wide range of settings.