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Webinar
Primary health strategies for working with children who present with ADHD concerns
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)Co-produced by the Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN), our webinar panel discuss primary health strategies that support effective work with children who exhibit ADHD behaviours, and how to best collaborate with schools and other services to assist them. -
Webinar
Supporting children’s wellbeing when working with separating parents
Child Family Community Australia & Emerging MindsCo-produced with Child Family Community Australia (CFCA), this webinar explores how practitioners can make children’s wellbeing central to conversations with parents who are navigating separation and/or divorce. -
In focus
In focus: Supporting your child’s wellbeing during a separation or divorce
Emerging MindsThis resource is for parents who are currently navigating separation or have separated or divorced. It offers information about children’s experiences and reactions to parents’ separation and advice from other parents, health professionals and research about ways parents can lessen the impacts of separation on children. -
Fact sheet
Talking to your child about separation and divorce
Emerging MindsTelling your child that you and your partner are separating or getting a divorce can be challenging – but it’s an important conversation to have. This fact sheet offers tips for talking to your child about separation and divorce – what to say, what not to say, why it's important to allow your child to express their emotions, and how to keep communication open and ongoing. -
Fact sheet
Practitioner guide: Connection and belonging resources
Emerging MindsIn using these connection and belonging resources with families, practitioners are encouraged to reflect on their own practice, shifting from looking at what's wrong in a family to instead focus on the obstacles the family is facing, including structural barriers. -
Fact sheet
Parenting after a separation or divorce
Emerging MindsThis fact sheet offers tips for separated parents about keeping or rebuilding a supportive relationship with your child, co-parenting that supports children’s wellbeing, and communicating respectfully with and about the other parent. -
Fact sheet
Looking after yourself during a separation or divorce
Emerging MindsStress can make it difficult to manage your emotions and can impact on your parenting and your relationship with your child. This is why it’s so important to look after yourself during a separation or divorce. This fact sheet offers tips from other parents on managing emotions, looking after your health and looking to the future. -
Webinar
Supporting children’s mental health when working with separating parents
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)Co-produced with the Mental Health Professionals’ Network (MHPN), this webinar explores how practitioners can make children’s wellbeing a central aspect of their conversations with parents navigating separation and divorce. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: April 2023
Prepared by AIFSThis April 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. -
Short article
The impact of paternal positivity on child mental health
Melissa Willoughby, Australian Institute of Family StudiesThis article discusses the associations between paternal positivity and child mental health which a meta analysis found to be stronger in certain populations and circumstances, while outlining how practitioners can support paternal positivity. -
In focus
In focus: Childhood bullying
Nicole RollbuschThis article explains childhood bullying, the risk factors and indicators for bullying, the effects of childhood bullying on mental health and resources to support your understanding. -
Resource summary
Family and domestic violence (FDV) learning pathway
Emerging MindsTo support children’s mental health in your work, Emerging Minds has created the family and domestic violence learning pathway of free online courses.