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Title: Using Medicaid to Ensure the Healthy Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Each child’s social and emotional development underpins overall development and greatly influences his or her lifelong trajectory. Infants and toddlers experience a period of rapid brain development marked by great possibility and vulnerability, depending on their family and community contexts. The first years of life are particularly crucial to a child’s development of a sense of security and attachment with others, foundational activities that undergird subsequent social and emotional development. Prolonged stress brought on by trauma—parental substance abuse, poverty, and other family, social, and/or environmental factors—places healthy development at great risk. Nurturing relationships with parents and caregivers can mitigate these risks, especially with early identification and support for young children’s mental health needs along with those of their parents. But when such stress gets in the way of consistent caring and responsive parent-child relationships, it can lead to a host of health, behavioral, social, and emotional difficulties for the child throughout his or her life.

Url: https://ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Medicaid-and-IECMH_FINAL.pdf

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Authors: Burak, Elisabeth Wright; Rolfes-Haase, Kelly

Publisher: Georgetown University Health Policy Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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