Professional roles in child mental health support

There are a wide range of professions that work in child mental health. In this episode, we explore some of these child mental health support roles, and chat with a range of practitioners who work with children and families. Each guest comes from a different discipline, and discusses the role they play in supporting families.

We’ll be hearing from Gabrielle Hart, an infant, child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice; Marnie Winterford, a clinical psychologist with a specialty in supporting young children and adolescents; Gill Munro, who comes with many years of experience managing a large drug and alcohol rehab service in South Australia; Ali Chisholm, an occupational therapist who works in an early childhood and family team in community health; as well as Fiona Bottroff, a speech pathologist who is also from an early childhood and family team.

In this episode you will learn:

• the role of social workers in child mental health support and working with families [01:21]
• the role of clinical psychologists in child mental health support and working with families [03:59]
• the role of psychiatrists in child mental health support and working with families [10:19]
• the role of speech pathologists in child mental health support and working with families [19:31]
• the role of occupational therapists in child mental health support and working with families [22:41]