Search Results for "disaster"
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Practice paper
Why is it difficult for parents to talk to practitioners about their children’s mental health?
Myfanwy McDonaldThis paper is about why it’s difficult for some parents to talk to practitioners about their children’s mental health and what practitioners can do to make it easier for parents to have those conversations. -
Guide
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): NICE guideline
National Institute for Health and Care ExcellenceThis guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve quality of life by reducing symptoms of PTSD such as anxiety, sleep problems and difficulties with concentration. -
Short article
Exploring harms experienced by children aged 7 to 11 using ambulance attendance data: A six-year comparison with adolescents aged 12–17
Debbie Scott, Rose Crossin, Rowan Ogeil, Karen Smith, Dan I. LubmanGiven that adolescence is a high-risk time for the development of mental health and substance use disorders, with half of all lifetime mental disorders commencing by the age of 14 years, such initiatives are to be applauded. What has been less well researched and understood is the mental health and service needs of younger children, particularly those aged under 12 years. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: August 2018
Prepared by AIFSThis August research summary provides a selection of recently released systematic reviews and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health and relevant to the work of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. Abstracts and links to full-text articles, where available, are provided. -
Fact sheet
Traumatic events, the media and your child
Emerging MindsThis resource outlines the impact of disaster media coverage and how to help your child. -
Fact sheet
Traumatic events: Anniversaries and other triggers
Emerging MindsThis resource will provide some information on how to support and manage planned events that may cause distress, such as anniversaries, as well as situations that are less predictable. -
Fact sheet
Helping students recover after trauma: Classroom activities
Emerging MindsThere are specific things that you can do in the classroom to help children who have been directly or indirectly impacted by traumatic events. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: July 2018
Prepared by AIFSThis July research summary provides a selection of recently released systematic reviews and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health and relevant to the work of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. Abstracts and links to full-text articles, where available, are provided. -
Framework
Child safe organisations WA – Guidelines
Commissioner for Children and Young People (WA)This guide is intended to assist a broad range of organisations in their efforts to become more child safe. It provides general information only and each organisation will need to consider the information and develop strategies and practices suited to its own specific needs, consistent with its duty of care. -
Framework
National Mental Health Recovery Framework – Guide for Practitioners and Providers
COAG Health CouncilThis document is a guide for mental health practitioners and services to Australia’s national framework for recovery-oriented mental health services. -
Guide
From isolation to connection: a guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people
Child Safety Commissioner, Melbourne VictoriaThis guide is for people working with, caring for, or in contact with children and young people whose lives have been hurt by abuse, neglect or other trauma. -
Website
Supportive relationships and active skill-building strengthen the foundations of resilience
Harvard UniversityThis working paper explains how protective factors in the social environment and responsive biological systems interact to produce resilience, and discusses strategies that promote healthy development in face of significant adversity.