Search Results for "looking after your wellbeing"
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Fact sheet
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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12 tips to support your child through drought
Emerging MindsThis resource offers simple, practical tips to support your child through a drought, with a focus on child mental health and wellbeing. -
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How to support your child in the weeks after a flood
Emerging MindsThis resource offers practical strategies to help parents support their children’s mental health and wellbeing during and in the weeks after 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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Staying connected to your children when living with mental illness
Emerging MindsThis resource was developed as a guide for parents living with mental illness who have to spend some time away from their children (such as being in hospital) as part of their treatment and recovery. It outlines why remaining connected is important for children’s resilience and some of the simple ways parents can connect with their children while experiencing mental illness. -
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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. -
Video
Looking Back: Eating food, eating rocks
Emerging MindsIn the following video you will hear Lauren looking back on her near drowning experience and her resulting eating disorder. -
Practice paper
Working with children to prevent self-blame after disclosures of child sexual abuse
Dan Moss and Clare KlapdorThis paper is aimed at practitioners who want to respond to disclosures of child sexual abuse in ways that challenge self-blame in safe and respectful ways. It provides strategies to help practitioners support a child who has disclosed sexual abuse, either while waiting for a referral to a specialist service, or while continuing to work with the child in a general or specialised capacity. It follows the Emerging Minds paper, 'Making use of practitioners’ skills to support a child who has been sexually abused'. -
Podcast
Diet, lifestyle, relationships, and wellbeing: A holistic approach to working with mums
Dr Angie WillcocksRuntime00:32:13Released13/11/21 -
Practice paper
How to speak with separating parents about their children’s wellbeing
Dr Nikola Balvin and Nicole PatersonThis resource outlines the importance of making children's wellbeing a central aspect of the conversations practitioners have with parents who are going through separation or divorce, and aims to address the gap by summarising the best-practice principles on parenting during separation.