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Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: March 2024
Prepared by AIFSThis March 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
Talking to children about violent events
Emerging MindsThis resource offers tips for talking with children after a man-made disaster such as an act of mass violence. -
Fact sheet
How to talk to children about war and conflict
Emerging MindsThis fact sheet offers tips to help you have honest, age-appropriate conversations with your child about war and conflict. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: July 2023
Prepared by AIFSThis July 2023 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 that month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: June 2023
Prepared by AIFSThis June 2023 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 that month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: March 2023
Prepared by AIFSThis March 2023 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 that month, followed by a list of selected articles. Each article is accompanied by a brief synopsis which presents the key messages and highlights. -
Practice paper
Supporting pre-teens presenting to the emergency department with mental health concerns
Sasha Johnston and Cathryn Hunter, Parenting Research CentreSensitive care in the emergency department for pre-teen mental health presentations has the potential to improve pre-teens’ mental health trajectories while keeping families in the loop can improve their experiences of help-seeking and the uptake of discharge recommendations. -
Webinar
Webinar | Supporting children who have disclosed trauma
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)This webinar explores how practitioners can have conversations with children that challenge the effects of self-blame after experiences of sexual or physical abuse. -
Fact sheet
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. -
Webinar
Supporting children who have disclosed trauma
Child Family Community Australia & Emerging MindsCo-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. -
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'. -
Webinar
Webinar | Using an intergenerational lens when working with children and parents
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)This webinar describes each aspect of an intergenerational lens in ways that support practitioners to work with children, and to place the child at the centre of all decisions and interactions.