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Webinar
Building parents’ understanding of play to nurture infant and toddler mental health
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)This webinar co-produced by the Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN) aimed to increase clinicians’ understanding of how to utilise play interventions with parents, infants and toddlers to promote connection, communication and overall mental health. -
Online Course
Keeping the infant and toddler in mind
Online CourseThis free online course will provide you with an introduction to a relationship-based framework that promotes the mental health of children aged 0-5 years. -
Online Course
Practice strategies for assessment: Infants and toddlers
Online CourseThis course builds on the foundational knowledge by expanding on the ally, advocate and awareness of relationship framework that promotes the mental health of children aged 0–5 years. -
Online Course
Practice strategies for formulation: Infants and toddlers
Online CourseThis course aims to support you to extend your standard formulation practices by integrating the ally, advocate and awareness of relationship framework. It will also support you to bring your professional expertise together with the family’s know-how, to develop a shared understanding of the infants’ and toddlers’ experience. -
Online Course
Promoting infant and toddler mental health with parents
Online CourseThis course explores the ways practitioners can support parents by providing reassurance, guidance, information or resources to promote positive mental health in their infant or toddler. -
Research highlight
Hearing babies’ voices through participatory arts
Prepared by AIFSA summary of Drury, Blaisdell, Matheson, & Ruckert-Fagan's 2025 exploration of how participatory arts can support babies’ right to be heard. -
Webinar
Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse: Supporting the mental health of children and young people
Child Family Community Australia & Emerging MindsThis webinar combines practice and lived experience to explore how we as a sector can better identify and respond to child sexual abuse and support victims and survivors to heal and recover. It is intended to complement ‘Trauma prevention and early intervention approaches with children and young people’ which was broadcast in September 2025. -
Webinar
Beginning child aware conversations with parents who use substances
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)In this webinar with the Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN), our multidisciplinary panel will explore and identify reasons that may underlie school attendance difficulties. This presentation will promote the value of partnership-based, trauma-informed strategies to support a contextualised understanding of each child’s unique needs in education settings. -
Guide
Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline For Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Video
What is a child and family health nurse?
Emerging MindsLearn more about how a practice nurse can support you and your family. -
Short article
Self-harm in primary school-aged children
Dr Laura Gobey, Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)This article provides a summary of the research evidence on self-harm behaviours in primary school-aged children. It outlines what self-harm behaviours are, how common they are, and why primary school-aged children may be self-harming. -
Webinar
Towards a comprehensive child mental health system: Exploring workforce availability
Emerging MindsThis webinar is intended for organisational and systems leaders across the health, education, social and community services sectors, as well as practitioners with an interest in workforce development.