Search Results for "care plan"
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How to support your child in the weeks after a bushfire
Emerging MindsThis resource offers practical strategies to help parents support their children’s mental health and wellbeing during and in the weeks after a bushfire. -
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Looking after your wellbeing during a drought
Emerging MindsThis resource offers tips for looking after your own wellbeing during drought and explains how taking care of yourself also helps your children's mental health and wellbeing. -
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Looking after your wellbeing following a flood
Emerging MindsIn the aftermath of a flood, you’re working hard to support your child through the trauma and ensure your family’s basic needs are met, but you also need to look after your own wellbeing. -
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Helping your child to prepare for a flood
Emerging MindsThis resource offers tips to help families prepare practically and emotionally for a flood. -
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16 tips to support your child’s recovery after a flood
Emerging MindsThis resource offers simple, practical strategies to support your child’s recovery following a flood. It has been developed with the guidance of family members with lived experience, practitioners and researchers. -
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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. -
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Starting the conversation about your mental illness with your child
Emerging MindsThis resource was developed to support parents in starting conversations with their children about mental illness. -
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Talking to your child’s school: a guide for parents living with mental illness
Emerging MindsThis resource was developed to explain what help schools and early learning services (ELS) may be able to provide their children with while they are experiencing mental illness, including how to approach the school/ELS and what to tell them. -
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Caring for grandchildren when their parents are living with mental illness
Emerging MindsThis resource was developed to help grandparents think about how to prepare for grandchildren coming to stay with them because the children’s parent is experiencing mental illness. It provides advice on maintaining family relationships and what to do when it’s time for children to return to live with their parents. -
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Looking after yourself: a guide for young people caring for a parent
Emerging MindsThis resource has been developed to help young people who do a lot to help their parent experiencing mental illness (and by extension their family) recognise when it’s time to ask for help and what kinds of support may be available. -
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Helping your children in a flood emergency
Brad Morgan (Emerging Minds) and Michelle Roberts (Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network)If your family is currently in an area that is experiencing and/or at risk of flooding, this resource outlines some steps you can take to help your children to prepare, both practically and psychologically. -
Practice paper
Higher weight and mental health and wellbeing in childhood
Cathryn Hunter, Parenting Research CentreThis resource aims to improve practitioners’ understanding of the connections between higher weight and mental health in childhood. It provides guidance on how practitioners can support the physical and mental health and wellbeing of children with higher weight.