Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Part II: Topic Specific Resources: Social and Emotional Development

• Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
  (http://www.casel.org/)
  Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
  CASEL’s mission is to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential part of education. They provide information on social and emotional learning background, implementation in schools, professional development in various aspects of SEL, and assessment tools.
• Development of Social Skills in Young Children: Guidelines for Parents
  (http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/parent/socialskills1.cfm)
  National Association of School Psychologists
  These guidelines provide information, resources. and steps for parents to foster the development of their child’s social skills.
• Emotional Development in Infants
  (http://www.brighthub.com/education/early-childhood/articles/44243.aspx)
  Bright Hub
  This article features what research shows, the importance of bonding, and milestones.
• Emotional Flooding—Using Empathy to Help Babies Manage Strong Emotions
  (http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200809/RockingRolling.pdf [PDF format])
  National Association for the Education of Young Children
  
• Emotional Literacy
  (http://www.parecovery.org/documents/Focus_ECMH_EmotLit_060909.pdf [PDF format])
  Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency
  This tip sheet helps you help your child understand and express emotions/feelings.
• Fact Sheet: What Every Child Needs for Good Mental Health
  (http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/farcry/go/information/get-info/children-s-mental-health/what-every-child-needs-for-good-mental-health)
  Mental Health America
  This fact sheet includes tips for caregivers, warning signs, and resources for seeking help.
• Friends and Feelings: Social Emotional Development in Young Children
  (http://www.ccids.umaine.edu/ec/growingideas/socemotip.htm)
  University of Maine
  These tip sheets address what social emotional development is, why and how to support it, and how attachment and self-regulation relate to it.
• From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
  (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9824#toc)
  Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council
  Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues.
• How Do You Create an Effective Environment for Infant/Toddler Socializations in an Early Head Start Home-Based Program? (http://www.ehsnrc.org/Publications/English%20Tip%20Sheets/TIP%20SHEET%2026.pdf [PDF format])
  Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families
  
• How to Help Your Toddler Begin Developing Empathy
  (http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_key_social_empathy&AddInterest=1503)
  ZERO TO THREE
• What Is Infant Mental Health and Why Is It Important?
  — in English (http://projectabcla.org/dl/materials/ABC_InfantMentalHlth_English.pdf [PDF format]) and in Spanish (http://projectabcla.org/dl/materials/ABC_InfantMentalHlth_Spanish.pdf [PDF format])
  Project ABC
  This pamphlet provides an explanation of what infant mental health is and its significance, how to support children’s emotional development, and warning signs.
• Positive Reinforcement
  (http://www.parecovery.org/documents/Focus_ECMH_Positive_Reinforcement_101509.pdf [PDF format])
  Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency
  This tip sheet provides simple strategies for giving children positive reinforcement.
• Resources to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness in Young Children and Families: A Community Guide
  (http://www.nccp.org/publications/pdf/text_648.pdf [PDF format])
  National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  This guides discusses various programs and strategies to promote social and emotional health and school readiness.
• Self-Regulation (Self-Control)
  (http://www.parecovery.org/documents/FOCUS_ECMH_Self_Regulation_081009.pdf [PDF format])
  Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency
  This tip sheet addresses how to help children learn self-control.
• Social-Emotional Development
  (http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=key_social)
  ZERO TO THREE
  ZERO TO THREE provides tips for parents, information on development and self control by age range, answers to frequently asked questions, publications, and resources for professionals and policy makers.
• Supporting Your Child’s Relationship-Building Skills
  (http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_key_social_relationships&AddInterest=1157)
  ZERO TO THREE
  
• The Importance of Play
  (http://www.parecovery.org/documents/Focus_ECMH_Play_090709.pdf [PDF format])
  Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency
  This tip sheet addresses what play is, why it is important, and types of play caregivers can facilitate.
• Tips on Nurturing Your Child's Social-Emotional Development
  (http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_key_social_socemottips&AddInterest=1157)
  ZERO TO THREE
  
• Tips to Promote Social-Emotional Health Among Young Children
  (http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/mentalhealthday.cfm)
  American Academy of Pediatrics
  This tip sheet describes what parents, early education and child care providers, and pediatricians can do to promote young children’s social-emotional health.
• Toward the ABCs: Building a Healthy Social and Emotional Foundation for Learning and Living (http://www.ounceofprevention.org/includes/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/Towards_the_ABCs.pdf [PDF format])
  Ounce of Prevention Fund
  This summary covers what we know about the early emotional development of young children, what places them at risk, what signs to look for, and how policymakers can support early childhood mental health strategies that respond to the needs of children under five and their families.
• Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community: Promoting Mental Health (http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED407141&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED407141)
  Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families
  This training guide is intended to promote mental health for all members of the Head Start community. It does so through activities that build skills in creating responsive, respectful relationships with co-workers, parents, and children. The guide has five working sections, the first three of which are training modules.
• You Choose!
  (http://www.parecovery.org/documents/Focus_ECMH_You_Choose_121009.pdf [PDF format])
  Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency
  This tip sheet explains why young children should be given choices and how to provide them with choices.