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Guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
Beyond BlueThese guidelines from Beyond Blue are a general set of recommendations about how you can help an Aboriginal person who may be experiencing a mental illness or developing a mental health crisis. -
Book
Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice
Telethon Kids InstituteThe book's 2nd edition covers priority issues on Aboriginal people's mental health including transgenerational trauma, perinatal and infant mental health, and emotional and behavioral problems in young people. It also has chapters on cultural specific models and programs to assist in healing. -
Guide
Trauma and loss – MHFA Guidelines for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Beyond BlueResource that is most useful for professionals and community leaders. It includes recommendations on how to help an Aboriginal person who has experienced trauma or loss. -
Guide
Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury
Beyond BlueGuidelines from Mental Health First Aid that have been adapted to be specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. -
Research paper
Our children, our dreaming
The Healing FoundationThis paper examines the scope and nature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander over-representation and details strategies for how this can be more effectively addressed in Australia. -
Research paper
Living on the Edge: Social and emotional wellbeing and risk and protective factors for serious psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal HealthThis discussion paper has been prepared to generate discussion around the determinants of Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing and to provide a range of recommendations for addressing the current gap in social and emotional wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The report identifies a number of strengths and protective factors. Includes a discussion of the trauma and grief issues that Indigenous people are experiencing. -
Research paper
Diagnosis in child mental health – Exploring the benefits, risks and alternatives
Rhys Price-RobertsonService providers seldom have time to explore the debates, complexities and nuances surrounding the diagnosis of child mental health conditions. This paper is designed to encourage practitioners in the child and family welfare sector to examine their own understanding of diagnostic systems, and to critically reflect on the role that diagnosis plays in their work with children and families. Rhys Price-Robertson is a Workforce Development Officer at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. He works as part of the Emerging Minds National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health. This resource has been co-produced by CFCA and Emerging Minds. -
Short article
‘Invisible’ children of imprisoned parents at risk of falling through the cracks
Megan F. Bell, Donna M. Bayliss, Rebecca Glauert, Jeneva L. OhanThis short article is part of a series highlighting upcoming presentations at the Australian Institute of Family Studies 2018 Conference that focus on child mental health or children at risk of experiencing mental health difficulties. -
Short article
Mental health service use by Australian children
Melissa MulraneyThis short article is part of a series highlighting upcoming presentations at the Australian Institute of Family Studies 2018 Conference that focus on child mental health or children at risk of experiencing mental health difficulties. -
Fact sheet
Children and grief (primary school, ages 6-12)
Australian Centre for Grief and BereavementThis fact sheet focuses on grief and children aged 6-12. Following the death of someone close, parents are often concerned about how to best support and meet the needs of their children. -
Fact sheet
Children and grief (pre-school, ages five and under)
Australian Centre for Grief and BereavementThis fact sheet focuses on grief and children aged five and under. Like adults, children experience, express and process grief in a variety of ways depending on their age, stage of development, personality, family culture, understanding of death, past experiences of loss and the context of their bereavement. -
Fact sheet
The Rosemary Branch Spring 2012
Australian Centre for Grief and BereavementQuestions answered in the resource include: do children grieve? How do I talk to my kids about death? Is my child's behaviour normal? How can I help?