Parent guide one: Anxiety in children aged 4-8

Catherine Murphy and Elly Robinson - Parenting Research Centre, Australia, 2020

Related to Anxiety

This resource compliments the practice paper, Supporting parents of 4-8-year-old children with mild to moderate anxiety.

The more you know about your child’s experience of anxiety, the more informed you are to make decisions about the kind of support and help you choose for them. The information in this guide can be used to help you and your practitioner improve anxiety in your children.

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Practice paper

Supporting parents of 4–8-year-old children with mild to moderate anxiety

Catherine Murphy and Elly Robinson - Parenting Research Centre

This practice guide provides information about anxiety in children aged between 4-8 years of age. It aims to help practitioners in generalist services to better support parents who have a child experiencing mild-moderate anxiety.
Guide

Parent guide two: Gathering information about your 4-8 year old child’s experience of anxiety

Catherine Murphy and Elly Robinson - Parenting Research Centre

The more you know about your child’s experience of anxiety, the more informed you are to make decisions about how best to support them. This guide provides some information on strategies that you can try with support from your practitioner.
Guide

Parent guide three: Supporting your 4-8 year old child

Catherine Murphy and Elly Robinson - Parenting Research Centre

There are a number of actions parents can take to help their child decrease and manage their feelings of anxiety. This guide provides some information on strategies that you can try with support from your practitioner. Trying one or two of these to begin with is a good start. Remember that anxiety can get worse before it gets better, so keep persisting to give the strategy time to work.
Short article

Individual and family factors associated with child mental health and wellbeing

Melissa Willoughby and Joanna Schwarzman, Australian Institute of Family Studies

This short article describes the research evidence on individual and family factors associated with child mental health and wellbeing.
Research summary

Highlights in child mental health research: October 2024

Prepared by AIFS

This October 2024 research summary provides a selection of recently released papers, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health. Each summary includes an introductory overview of the content for the month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. Links to abstracts, full-text articles and related resources, where available, are provided.
Research summary

Highlights in child mental health research: September 2024

Prepared by AIFS

This September 2024 research summary provides a selection of recently released papers, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses related to infant and child mental health. Each summary includes an introductory overview of the content for the month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. Links to abstracts, full-text articles and related resources, where available, are provided.
Practice paper

Why we need to support infants and children before, during and after disasters

Emerging Minds

Infants and children rely on the adults around them to meet their needs, keep them safe and help them to make sense of their world. This puts them at greater risk of adverse impacts when a disaster occurs. This practice paper introduces the foundational knowledge and skills needed to support children and families at all stages of a disaster (preparedness, response and recovery).
Practice paper

Disaster preparedness with a focus on infants, children and families

Emerging Minds

This practice paper is designed to help you understand the importance of disaster preparedness for not only increasing safety and protecting lives when a disaster occurs, but facilitating the recovery of individuals, families and communities. It also offers practical advice for supporting the disaster preparedness of the children and families you work with.
Practice paper

Understanding how disasters influence infants and children

Emerging Minds

This practice paper aims to equip practitioners with knowledge about the ways disasters can influence a child’s ecology and the importance of targeted support for children’s resilience and recovery in the short and long term.
Practice paper

Supporting infants, children and families in an evacuation

Emerging Minds

This practice paper explains why it’s important to consider pregnant people, infants, children and families in evacuation planning and management. It provides practical considerations and strategies for ensuring evacuation procedures and centres meet the needs of infants, children and families and enhance their safety, wellbeing and recovery.
Practice paper

How psychological first aid can support infants, children and families who experience a disaster (part one)

Emerging Minds

This paper is the first of two and introduces psychological first aid (PFA), a psychosocial support approach that can reduce distress and support the mental health of infants, children and families who have experienced a disaster.
Practice paper

Psychological first aid with infants and children: Practice guidance (part two)

Emerging Minds

Part two of two: This paper provides guidance to practitioners offering psychological first aid with infants, children and families in the context of a disaster.

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Parent guide one: Anxiety in children aged 4-8

Catherine Murphy and Elly Robinson - Parenting Research Centre, Australia, 2020

Discover more resources

Supporting parents of 4–8-year-old children with mild to moderate anxiety

Parent guide two: Gathering information about your 4-8 year old child’s experience of anxiety

Parent guide three: Supporting your 4-8 year old child

Individual and family factors associated with child mental health and wellbeing

Highlights in child mental health research: October 2024

Highlights in child mental health research: September 2024

Why we need to support infants and children before, during and after disasters

Disaster preparedness with a focus on infants, children and families

Understanding how disasters influence infants and children

Supporting infants, children and families in an evacuation

How psychological first aid can support infants, children and families who experience a disaster (part one)

Psychological first aid with infants and children: Practice guidance (part two)

This resource is part of the following toolkits

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