DC:0-5 Booster Course (with Dr. Gerard Costa)

When: Thursday, August 1 - 10:00 AM

Duration: 3 hours

Location:

Event Details:

This interactive 3-hour webinar will serve as a refresher course of the DC:0-5™ Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC:0-5™) to provide a foundation of this diagnostic classification system for professionals who work with infants and young children. For those who have already taken the full DC:0-5 training, this booster is aimed to be a refresher and prepare you to be “user-ready” when NYS designates DC:0-5 as the recommended diagnostic manual for children birth to five. This booster will promote familiarity with the background, approach, and content areas of DC:0-5, which will help participants understand that infants and young children can experience mental health and developmental disorders, as well as consider their own role-specific response to this information. 

This webinar will review: 

  • The historical background of development of a diagnostic classification system for infants and young children (DC:0-3, DC:0-3R and the revision approach for DC:0-5)
  • Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and the importance of a diagnostic system that is sensitive to disorders in this age range
  • The DC:0-5 approach to diagnostic formulation
  • A brief overview of the multi-axial format of DC:0-5
  • A case review using the multi-axial format


Learning Objectives
Webinar participants will:

  • Consider the importance of utilizing a developmentally sensitive, relationship based and contextually grounded system of diagnostic classification with children from birth through 5 years old
  • Learn the DC:0-5 approach to diagnosis including the maintenance of a multi-axial approach
  • Become familiar with the content and framework of key sections of DC:0-5
  • Explore the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to children with mental health and developmental disorders in infancy and early childhood
  • Simulate the application of the multi-axial DC:0-5 Classification system on a practice case.