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Webinar
Webinar | Shrinking problems with children and families
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)This webinar outlines practice skills for working with children who are experiencing emotional wellbeing problems and demonstrates how to help these children become aware of when their problems are shrinking and how to encourage them to be mindful of the skills used to shrink their problems. -
Guide
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family violence practice profile example
This resource is an example of a family and domestic violence practice profile when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. -
Webinar
Identifying developmental concerns in school-aged children
Emerging Minds and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)This webinar with the RACGP explores how ‘typical development’ is defined in children aged 5-12, the relationship between mental health difficulties and developmental difficulties in school-aged children, and the skills required to identify developmental concerns. Facilitated by Dr James Best, panellists include Dr Andrew Leech, Felicity Kime, Susan Pagel and Dr Stephen Stathis. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: May 2021
Prepared by AIFSThis May research summary provides a selection of recently released papers, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health. Each summary includes an introductory overview of the content for that month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. Links to abstracts, full-text articles and related resources, where available, are provided. -
Guide
Honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in healing family violence
Dana Shen, Rosie Schellen and Daniel MossStrategies to end violence will not work if they are imposed on the community, therefore any intervention must be Community led, developed and driven. This framework by Dana Shen, Rosie Schellen and Dan Moss aims to assist practitioners in mainstream services to develop their confidence in asking child-focused, culturally-sensitive questions in their role in providing safety for children whose parents experience family violence. -
Short article
Children’s experiences of family violence
Dana Shen, Rosie Schellen and Daniel MossExposure to family violence and traumatic events has long-lasting effects. Children’s brains and bodies are malleable, making trauma faster to manifest, affecting the way children react and relate to others and their physical environment. This fact sheet adapted from Tucci et. al. provides information about the effects of family violence on a child’s social and emotional wellbeing, and ways that interventions can play a role in healing. -
Webinar
Engaging children in practice: Who’s in the room? – interactive online session
Emerging MindsThe second in our series of interactive online sessions featured Clare Klapdor, Manager at Centacare and Chris Dolman, Senior Workforce Development Officer at Emerging Minds, who discussed ‘Who’s in the room?’, one of the modules in the Emerging Minds online course, Engaging children: Good beginnings. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: April 2021
Prepared by AIFSThis April research summary provides a selection of recently released papers, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health. Each summary includes an introductory overview of the content for that month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. Links to abstracts, full-text articles and related resources, where available, are provided. -
Webinar
Understanding children’s behaviour as communication
Emerging Minds and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)This webinar explores how GPs can have conversations with parents about children's behaviour that support explorations about what might be happening for the child and the broader circumstances the family is facing. -
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Supporting children who have experienced trauma – interactive online session
Emerging MindsThe first in our series of interactive online sessions featured Kate Headley, Speech Pathologist, Links Trauma Healing Service and Dan Moss, Workforce Development Manager, Emerging Minds, who discussed our e-learning course, Supporting children who have experienced trauma. -
Fact sheet
Psychological first aid for young people
Emerging MindsPsychological first aid (PFA) is an internationally accepted strategy that can be used anytime, but is most widely used in the first hours, days and weeks following a traumatic event. This tip card shares some practical ways in which psychological first aid can be applied to support young people. -
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Applying a child-centred, family-focused approach in child mental health consultations webinar
Emerging Minds and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)This webinar explores the child-centred and family-focused approach to child mental health in the context of general practice consultations.