Emerging Minds offers a range of free, easy-to-use tools to support practitioners working with children and families. As a primary care nurse, you can get started with the following selection of resources.
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- Supporting children’s resilience in general practice
- Building blocks for children’s social and emotional wellbeing
- Promoting infant and toddler mental health with parents
- Supporting parents to promote children’s social and emotional wellbeing
- Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children: A framework for understanding
- Replanting the Birthing Trees: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children in the first 2,000 days
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- PERCS Conversation Guide: A psychosocial conversation guide designed to support collaborative, respectful conversations between practitioners and parent-patients.
- In focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing
- Fact sheets: Understanding child development: 0-3 years and 3-5 years
- Practice paper: Post-natal care: Making the most of your first session with parents
- In focus: Parent-child relationships
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Promoting child mental health in primary health care – primary health care practitioners share their experience of working with families to respond to child mental health concerns and the considerations for practitioners, from systems level to daily practice.
Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants during the first 2,000 days – Cultural consultants Dana Shen and Shirley Young explore practices that support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants and families’ wellbeing during the first 2,000 days.
Dismantling interpersonal racism to support culturally diverse families – Julie Ngwabi (Emerging Minds), Etty Garabelli (Australian Refugee Association), and Steph Shavin (Victorian Transcultural Mental Health) explore how racism impacts the mental health of children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia.
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- Fact sheet: Understanding infant mental health and wellbeing (for parents)
- In focus: Supporting your baby’s mental health and wellbeing
- Podcast: Tips for new parents: Bonding with your baby in their first 12 months
- Fact sheet: Supporting your baby’s sleep
- Fact sheet: Understanding and soothing a crying baby
- Fact sheet: Adjusting to parenthood: Fathers and non-birthing parents