Infant mental health: An emerging field for children with developmental disabilities

摘要: Behavior problems are common in toddlers and preschoolers. Richman, Stevenson, Graham (1975) identified difficulties with eating, sleeping, toileting, temper, fears, peer relations, activity as typical this young population. While all children should be expected to experience behavior part of their normal development, an ongoing challenge the field has been determine when these “normal” developmental rise level being considered “clinical” (Keenan & Wakschlag, 2000). For example, does a two-year-old child's tantrum behavior, three-year-old's urinary accidents, four-year-old's defiance become clinically significant? To answer questions, clinicians must examine frequency, intensity, durability difficulties, potential cause injury child or others, extent which they interfere degree disrupt lives siblings, caregivers, peers, teachers, others.