It’s All About Relationships: An Interview With Camille Catlett

Supporting early childhood faculty across the US, Camille Catlett has her finger on the pulse in developing university programs that inform systems impacting infant and early childhood mental health. “It’s all about relationships,” she says, as infants and young children draw experiences from their environments and caregivers. In other words, if adults in a child’s universe are stressed, they will be stressed; if adults are well-regulated and calm, they will be calm. In this podcast, Camille briefly addresses the evolving and advancing guidelines and standards in infant and early childhood mental health, as well as self-awareness, self-care, and mindfulness of adults who are providing care for young children. She also shares resources for parents and families and underlines the importance of home visits while emphasizing advocacy efforts on a legislative level. Her hope is that COVID-19 has done less harm than we have feared regarding infant and young children’s mental health. 

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About the Interviewee

Camille Catlett, M.A., is a Senior Technical Assistance Specialist at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her consultative work focuses primarily on building capacity of early childhood faculty related to diversity, equity, and language development. She coordinates several national and state listservs, and is the Resources Within Reach columnist of Young Exceptional Children. Contact: camille.catlett@unc.edu

Suggested Citation

Kern, P. (2022, September 1). It’s all about relationship: An interview with Camille Catlett [Audio podcast]. imagine. www.imagine.musictherapy.biz