Search Results for "PERCs"
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Guide
PERCS Conversation Guide: Working with substance affected parents
Emerging MindsParental substance use can affect children negatively from conception through to adulthood. But many practitioners lack confidence in talking with substance affected parents – particularly pregnant clients – about these impacts. The PERCS Conversation Guide is designed to support collaborative, respectful conversations around the impact of parental substance use on children, and improve practitioners' confidence in having these conversations. -
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PERCS Conversation Guide for primary health practitioners
Emerging MindsPrimary health practitioners are in a unique position to support infants' and children's mental health, by talking with parents about how the issues they're facing might be impacting on their whole family. To make these conversations easier, Emerging Minds has created a free primary health practitioner conversation guide. -
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PERCS Conversation Guide: Parental physical illness
Emerging MindsParental physical illness can have a direct impact on children’s social and emotional wellbeing. Health professionals working with parents experiencing chronic physical illness are well placed to hold preventative conversations to help reduce the negative impacts for children. This guide is designed to help professionals feel more confident in conducting these conversations with patients and clients. -
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PERCS Conversation Guide: Domestic violence and children
Emerging MindsThe PERCS Conversation Guide is designed to support both specialist and non-specialist practitioners to have collaborative, respectful conversations with parent-clients about how FDV can affect the whole family. -
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PERCS Conversation Guide
Emerging MindsIf you're not sure how to talk with parents about their children, particularly when the family is facing adversity, this free conversation guide can help. -
Practice paper
Piloting PERCS: A prevention and early intervention strategy for children living with violence and parental substance use
Emerging MindsEmerging Minds' family and domestic violence (FDV) and alcohol and other drug (AOD) use conversation guides aim to provide a set of questions that will support practitioners to consistently ask about children’s social and emotional wellbeing when working with parents who are perpetrating or being subjected to violence, or using alcohol or other drugs in harmful ways. This pilot involved semi-structured interviews with 19 practitioners across eight services (13 from FDV services, six from AOD), to evaluate the contribution the PERCS conversation guides made to their self-assessed level of understanding and confidence in child-focused practice where there is FDV or parental substance use. -
Practice paper
Working with parents to support children after disasters
Emerging MindsThis resource focuses on how practitioners can support children after disasters. It identifies strategies for engaging with parents and using a holistic approach that recognises and tailors support to each family’s unique needs, to enhance the wellbeing, resilience and recovery of infants and children who experience disasters. -
News
Reflecting on National Child Protection Week
This month started with National Child Protection Week, an annual campaign run by the National Association of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) that aims to promote a safe and supported life for every child. This year’s theme, Every conversation matters, highlights conversation as a powerful tool to keep children and… -
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In focus: Talking with parents about their children
When a parent is doing it tough, the last thing a practitioner wants is to make them feel worse. Adults who face adversities such as family and domestic violence, substance use issues or mental illness, often present with a history of being harshly judged. The desire to avoid replicating judgement… -
Podcast
Invitational and ethical practice with fathers who use violence (part two)
Alan JenkinsRuntime00:32:43Released19/8/24![]()
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Podcast
Invitational and ethical practice with fathers who use violence (part one)
Alan JenkinsRuntime00:30:05Released5/8/24![]()
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Podcast
Families: Understanding and supporting children’s mental health
Brad Morgan and Ben RogersRuntime00:15:28Released24/6/24![]()
