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Youth and Self-Injury
Canadian Mental Health AssocationThis webpage provides information about self-injury in young people. -
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Youth Alcohol and Other Drugs Toolbox
Youth Support and Advocacy ServiceThe 'Toolbox' provides practitioners in the youth alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector with reliable and up-to-date evidence and literature that enables workers to increase their knowledge and enrich their practice. -
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Youth Alcohol and Other Drugs Learning Hub
The Centre for Youth AOD Practice Development and Youth Support and Advocacy ServiceThe Youth AOD Learning Hub, an initiative of the Centre for Youth AOD Practice Development and the Youth Support and Advocacy Service, provides free online courses for professionals working in the youth alcohol and other drug sector to help develop their knowledge and enhance their practice. -
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Youth Alcohol and Other Drugs – Information for Workers
Youth Drugs and Alcohol AdviceThis website section provides youth alcohol and other drug workers with information, tools, advice and news to support their knowledge and practice. -
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Youth Drugs and Alcohol Advice
Youth Drug and Alcohol ServiceThis section of the YoDAA website provides advice, options, support, and understanding for young people worried about drug or alcohol use. -
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Youth Alcohol and Other Drugs
Youth Drugs and Alcohol AdviceThis section of the website provides strategies, advice and acknowledgement for those concerned about a young person's drug use. -
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Child, family and practitioner voice
Services designed collaboratively with children, families and practitioners tend to be more effective, more acceptable to the individuals and families using the service, and more relevant to their local context. Engaging with, and listening to, the views of children, families and practitioners is a strategy used to improve outcomes for… -
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Cultural and spiritual identity
For some children and families, cultural and spiritual identity are central to health and wellbeing. Service provision is more effective if it respects and incorporates service users’ cultural and spiritual understandings. A strong, positive sense of cultural and spiritual identity is important to children’s mental health, particularly in generating self-esteem,… -
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Developmental perspective
Children are not small adults; they have particular emotional, social and physical capacities and needs. To be effective, service delivery must be designed around infant and child developmental stages. Children’s mental health needs to be understood within the context of the child’s development, and more so than for adult mental… -
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Resilience
Resilience is the ability to recover or adjust well during or after an adverse event, or period of adversity. The single most important factor for developing resilience in children is the presence of at least one committed and supportive relationship with a parent, caregiver or other adult. Resilience is an… -
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Strengths and vulnerabilities
At any point in time, children’s mental health is influenced by a mix of strengths and vulnerabilities. Effective practice focuses on enhancing and promoting strengths, while accounting for vulnerabilities. -
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Prevention and early intervention
A focus on preventing or intervening early in the progression of mental health conditions not only benefits infants and children, but creates a solid foundation for health outcomes later in life, making it a long-term investment in the future of Australian society. Prevention and early intervention activities can occur early…