By linking Emerging Minds resources with tertiary-level courses students will have access to a wide range of content aimed at enhancing their knowledge and skills in how to support infant and child mental health. In using this guide you play a crucial role in fostering a society where the wellbeing of our youngest members is prioritised, ensuring a brighter and healthier future for all.
Recommended resources:
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Online course
Engaging with children
Emerging MindsThis course introduces you to the concept of engaging children as partners in practice, as a foundation for responding to child mental health concerns. -
Online course
Engaging children: Rich pictures
Emerging MindsThis course will assist practitioners to develop a range of practice skills for beginning to explore children’s strengths, skills, know-how, and values that can provide a foundation for reducing the impact of problems on their mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. -
Online course
Engaging children: Good beginnings
Emerging MindsThis course will assist practitioners to develop a range of practice skills to draw on at the beginning of working with children in relation to their mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.
Webinars:
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Webinar
A biopsychosocial approach to supporting child mental health
Emerging Minds and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)This webinar explores the features of a biopsychosocial formulation with children aged 5-12, its importance in supporting child mental health and its contribution to mental health treatment planning. -
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and the effects of intergenerational trauma
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)This webinar explores the effects of intergenerational trauma on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families, outlines current research on the importance of cultural competence and discusses examples of organisational and individual practice to build trust and collaboration. -
Webinar
Adverse childhood experience (ACEs) questions in the Kindergarten Health Check
ANU and the ACT Capital Health NetworkThis comprehensive webinar from the Australian National University (ANU) and delivered through the A.C.T.’s Capital Health Network is endorsed as training by the RACGP and looks at ACEs and the Kindergarten Health Check.
Podcasts:
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Podcast
Biopsychosocial formulation and the key phases of a child mental health assessment
Dr Andrew LeechRuntime00:37:07Released27/10/20 -
Podcast
Autism, neurodiversity, and child-centred practice – part one
Dr Erin BullussRuntime00:24:32Released10/7/20 -
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Autism, neurodiversity, and child-centred practice – part two
Dr Erin BullussRuntime00:23:17Released24/7/20
Additional material:
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Short article
A general practitioner’s guide to common reactions to trauma and loss by children aged 6-8 years
Emerging MindsFamily doctors regularly see the effects of trauma and loss on children of all ages. Many parents present at family practices concerned by their child’s behaviour. At other times, a general practitioner might become concerned that a parent underestimates the effects of trauma on their child. -
Fact sheet
Building your support networks: a guide for parents living with mental illness
Emerging MindsThis resource was developed to prompt parents living with mental illness to think about their ‘village’ – the people around them who they can call on to provide support to themselves and their children when the parent is unwell. Parents without a strong support network are provided with suggestions on how to strengthen these. -
Website
Checklist for professionals coming into contact with children of parents with mental health problems
Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)This checklist was designed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) in consultation with young carers. It aims to help the professional give children and young people the information they need to come to terms with their family member’s mental health problem.