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Practice paper
Exploring bullying in context: Children’s relationships, friendships and social functioning
Antony Gates, Parenting Research CentreThis practice paper discusses how exploring a child or young person’s social world to build your understanding of their strengths and vulnerabilities will help you identify and provide support for bullying involvement (that is, experiencing or engaging in bullying, or both). -
Practice paper
Working with families to prevent bullying
Antony Gates, Parenting Research CentreThis resource describes how practitioners from a range of fields who are employed outside the school system can help protect children from bullying. Approaches include raising parents’ awareness of bullying as an issue and looking at how building social connections can help. -
Practice paper
Supporting families to navigate school responses to bullying
Antony Gates, Parenting Research CentreThis resource presents principles and practices that can be applied by a wide range of practitioners who form relationships with children and families when checking in about bullying, school responses to bullying so far, and – most importantly – how the family feels about the process. -
Practice paper
Supporting families while they wait for a health care service
Sara Abdi, Parenting Research CentreExtended wait times to access health services can be harmful for children and their family, but health care practitioners can support families on a waitlist through regular communication and contact, planning, identifying informal supports, and providing information and resources to support them through the waiting period. -
Practice paper
How the experiences and circumstances of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children and families influence child mental health
Anagha Joshi and Pragya Gartoulla, Australian Institute of Family StudiesUnderstand how the experiences of children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds can affect child mental health and strategies to support children’s mental health through inclusive and curious practice. -
Practice paper
Culturally informed ways to support mental health in refugee and asylum seeker children
Pragya Gartoulla and Anagha Joshi, Australian Institute of Family StudiesThis practice paper aims to provide practitioners with information about culturally informed ways to support the mental health of refugee and asylum seeker children who are likely to have been exposed to significant adversity during crucial phases of their development. -
Short article
Telehealth for supporting child mental health
Lauren Winkler, Parenting Research CentreThis short article summarises research evidence and findings from practitioner consultations on mental health care delivery models. Findings suggest a flexible, hybrid model of care which includes telehealth is more likely to be acceptable and effective for children and families needing mental health support over telehealth alone. -
Practice paper
Primary health support for bullying in the middle years: Learnings for practitioners
Michele Hervatin, Parenting Research CentrePrimary health care practitioners have an important role to play in identifying and responding to bullying, and in doing so, supporting child wellbeing. -
Video
Introducing Emerging Minds Families
Emerging MindsCreated with the guidance and expertise of family members with lived experience, practitioners and researchers, Emerging Minds Families develops practical, accessible and trusted information and resources for families to support infant and child mental health. -
Video
Your support networks: It takes a village
Emerging MindsBuilding your village and creating those support networks plays an important role your child's development. -
Fact sheet
Feeding your baby: Advice for new parents
Emerging MindsThis resource explores how feeding times are an opportunity to connect with your baby and support their mental health and wellbeing. It acknowledges that feeding can be difficult for a lot of parents and infants, and explains why it’s important to seek help if you’re experiencing difficulties. -
Fact sheet
Supporting your baby’s sleep
Emerging MindsThis resource aims to help you support your baby’s sleep. It will help you understand where your baby is at developmentally and what might be causing any sleep issues. It offers strategies you can use to settle your baby and help them to develop good sleeping habits.