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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 CentreThis 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 CentreThe 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 CentreThere 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
Climate change-related worry in children and young people: What does the research evidence say?
Anagha Joshi, Australian Institute of Family StudiesThis article describes the research evidence about climate change-related worry in children and young people. -
Webinar
Working therapeutically with children who have experienced trauma from physical or sexual abuse
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)Co-produced with the Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN), this webinar discusses how practitioners can respond to the challenges of working therapeutically with families when children have experienced physical or sexual abuse. -
Webinar
Supporting infants and toddlers’ resilience during daily transitions
Child Family Community Australia & Emerging MindsCo-produced with Child Family Community Australia (CFCA), this webinar focuses on promoting infants and toddlers' confidence and sense of security by supporting parents/carers and educators to provide responsive and consistent daily transitions. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: July 2024
Prepared by AIFSThis July 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. -
Fact sheet
Unmasking stigma: Effects on families
Emerging MindsThis resource was created to help us understand how stigma effects families. Families share their stories to show the harms stigma can cause. -
Fact sheet
Standing against stigma
Emerging MindsStigma can show up in our thoughts about others even when we don’t want it to. This resource can help us notice and question those thoughts. -
Fact sheet
Families standing up to shame and stigma by making home a safe haven
Emerging MindsThere are many ways we can respond to shame and stigma. The families we talked to share their ideas for making home a safe haven. -
Fact sheet
Families standing up to shame and stigma by using care and compassion
Emerging MindsRead the stories of families who were shown care, compassion and kindness in the face of shame and stigma, and how it impacted their experiences. -
Fact sheet
Getting to know where shame comes from
Emerging MindsIn this resource we take a look at what shame is, where it can come from and how it can trick us into believing that there is something wrong with us.