During Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, attention often focuses on school-age children and teens, and the age-associated behavioural, developmental, and mental health conditions that can affect these young people. But what about newborn babies and infants ... should we be concerned with their mental health? And at what age exactly does mental health truly begin? Advocate and executive director of ZERO TO THREE explores this concept of infant mental health in the article "Babies' Mental Health Matters".
"Babies have "mental health" -- they are deeply feeling beings who are developing a sense of who they are, their value and worth, from day one. This process begins with the dance that takes place during everyday moments, like feeding, which are actually quite extraordinary when you look at them through the eyes of a young child."
"Babies have "mental health" -- they are deeply feeling beings who are developing a sense of who they are, their value and worth, from day one. This process begins with the dance that takes place during everyday moments, like feeding, which are actually quite extraordinary when you look at them through the eyes of a young child."
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