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 General Practitioners (GPs)
Emerging MindsGPs 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 general 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: An early intervention and prevention 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. -
Short article
How fathers’ warm and responsive parenting can support child mental health
Melissa Willoughby (AIFS), Cat Strawa (AIFS), Vincent Mancini (Telethon Kids Institute, UWA and The Fathering Project) & Hilary Miller (AIFS)This resource will explore the evidence on how fathers can positively influence their child’s mental health through warm and responsive parenting. -
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How fathers can support child mental health through setting limits and managing behaviour
Melissa Willoughby (AIFS), Cat Strawa (AIFS) & Vincent Mancini (Telethon Kids Institute, UWA and The Fathering Project)This resource outlines how fathers’ approaches to setting limits and managing behaviour can affect child mental health. It also provides considerations for practitioners to support effective practice with fathers and other caregivers. -
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Resources for primary care nurses
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. -
Practice paper
Supporting pre-teens presenting to the emergency department with mental health concerns
Sasha Johnston and Cathryn Hunter, Parenting Research CentreSensitive care in the emergency department for pre-teen mental health presentations has the potential to improve pre-teens’ mental health trajectories while keeping families in the loop can improve their experiences of help-seeking and the uptake of discharge recommendations. -
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General practice learning pathway
Emerging MindsDeveloped together with GPs and families, this learning pathway offers step-by-step guides for conducting infant and child mental health assessments, supporting families who have experienced a natural disaster, and holding preventative conversations with parents to buffer children from the impacts of adversity. -
Online Course
Engaging children: Paving the way with parents
Online CourseThis course will assist practitioners to develop a range of practice skills for working with parents who have concerns about their child’s mental health and wellbeing.