The importance of integrated care and collaborative consultation for advancing early childhood mental health: Lessons learned from professional colleagues

In the field of early childhood mental health (ECMH), we emphasize that advancing one's own professional development comes directly from examining the experience of working with your young clients and their caregivers. And while this remains quite true, and a core tenet to the field of ECMH, I want to discuss an important lesson about professional roles for psychologists learned from colleagues in pediatric primary care.