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Trainer Dawn urges relationship-centered infant mental health, highlights indigenous caregiving practices
Summary
In a virtual training, presenter Dawn framed infant mental health as relationship-based, explained early brain milestones and toxic stress risks, and urged culturally rooted, practical caregiving strategies for teachers and families.
During a virtual training session, Dawn, the session presenter, described infant and early childhood mental health as a relationship-based field and urged caregivers and program leaders to center cultural practices and responsive caregiving.
Dawn said the clinical "client is their relationship," explaining that work with infants generally focuses on the caregiver–child dyad rather than treating a baby in isolation. She emphasized the narrow developmental window in early childhood, noting that "by a child's third birthday, 85 percent. By a child's fifth birthday, 90% of our brain cell connections…
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