Psychological First Aid for Children and Adolescents

This webinar discusses practice approaches that will help you to support the agency of children living with disability and identify and encourage families’ strengths, interests, preferences and know-how.

This webinar identifies the key aspects of developing a plan to respond to mental health difficulties experienced by infants and young children. Facilitated by Dr James Best, the panel of guest speakers include Dr Nick Kowalenko, Dr Michaela Baulderstone and Nikko (Child and Family Parnter). Based on a case study, a number of practice skills were examined, and the panellists respond to practice challenges raised by webinar participants. Upon completion of the webinar, you will be able to apply the skills in developing a plan to meet the needs of the child and family.

Co-produced with CFCA, this webinar explored how self-blame operates and how perpetrators may manipulate children to blame themselves, how to help children challenge feelings of complicity in their trauma experiences by focusing directly on the power difference between children and adults, and children’s stories of protests or choices they have made throughout their experiences that kept themselves, or their loved ones, safe, to acknowledge that no child is a passive recipient of trauma.

This webinar drew on the voices, experiences and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners to explore how services can work through the perinatal period to support the social and emotional wellbeing of infants and their families.