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Book
Even Mummy Cries
Naomi Hunter'Even Mummy Cries' is a beautifully illustrated storybook which explores issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing to young children in an age-appropriate way. -
Book
Piecing The Puzzle Together: Raising young people when mental illness is part of your life
The COPMI national initiativeThis booklet is for parents living with a mental health problem or mental illness, whose children are aged between 2 and 7 years. It's also for partners, family and friends. -
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What’s Up With Our Parents? A Handbook For Older Children and Adolescents Whose Mother or Father has Mental Health Problems
Tytti SolantausThis booklet was written in Finland and translated into English for older children and teenagers who have a parent with a mental illness. It attempts to explain what mental illness is and to answer common questions young people often have in an age-appropriate way. -
Fact sheet
Talking to children about violent events
Emerging MindsThis resource offers tips for talking with children after a man-made disaster such as an act of mass violence. -
Webinar
Primary health strategies for working with children who present with ADHD concerns
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)Co-produced by the Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN), our webinar panel discuss primary health strategies that support effective work with children who exhibit ADHD behaviours, and how to best collaborate with schools and other services to assist them. -
Fact sheet
How to talk to children about war and conflict
Emerging MindsThis fact sheet offers tips to help you have honest, age-appropriate conversations with your child about war and conflict. -
In focus
In focus: Childhood bullying
Nicole RollbuschThis article explains childhood bullying, the risk factors and indicators for bullying, the effects of childhood bullying on mental health and resources to support your understanding. -
Webinar
Webinar | Supporting children who have disclosed trauma
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)This webinar explores how practitioners can have conversations with children that challenge the effects of self-blame after experiences of sexual or physical abuse. -
Fact sheet
When your parent has a mental illness
Emerging MindsThis resource was developed to answer some of the questions young people may have when they learn their parent has been diagnosed with a mental illness. -
Webinar
Supporting children who have disclosed trauma
Child Family Community Australia & Emerging MindsCo-produced with CFCA, this webinar explored how self-blame operates and how perpetrators may manipulate children to blame themselves, how to help children challenge feelings of complicity in their trauma experiences by focusing directly on the power difference between children and adults, and children’s stories of protests or choices they have made throughout their experiences that kept themselves, or their loved ones, safe, to acknowledge that no child is a passive recipient of trauma. -
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. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: May 2022
Prepared by AIFSThis May 2022 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.