DC:0–5™ Manual and Training

DC:0–5™: Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood captures the latest scientific findings and clinical research on infant and early childhood mental health.

Contact us to learn more about infant mental health trainings and options for customized packages that meet your specific needs.  ZERO TO THREE is the only official source of training for DC:0–5.

• The DC:0–5 Overview provides a foundational summary for professionals who work with infants and young children, available as a 90-minute webinar or 4-hour virtual or in-person infant mental health training event. The overview helps participants understand that infant and young children can experience mental health and developmental disorders, and consider their own role-specific response to this information. Participants will gain familiarity with the background, approach, and content areas of DC:0–5.
• The DC:0–5 Clinical Training promotes an approach to diagnosis that centers culture and is developmentally sensitive and relationship-based. The infant mental health training focuses on the importance of using a developmentally sensitive, relationship-based, contextually grounded, and empirically supported system of diagnostic classification with children from birth through 5 years old.
• The DC:0–5 Certified Training-of-Trainers (ToT) prepares clinicians to deliver the ZERO TO THREE DC:0–5 Training curriculum to clinicians from fields of mental health, health, and early intervention who are responsible for diagnosis in their own sites or locales. The ToT is available virtually or in-person. Clinicians who have successfully completed the DC:0–5 Clinical Training and who meet other eligibility criteria may apply to participate in the ToT and pursue ZERO TO THREE Trainer Certification. 
• Community of Learners (CoL) events promote participants’ analysis, reflection, and exploration of applying content knowledge in their professional practice. Ninety-minute CoL events can be provided virtually or in-person as follow-up to the DC:0–5 Clinical Training. CoL participants’ learning is enhanced through collaborative dialogue with a focus on real-world application.