Open Leaves books for counselling and mental health

Open Leaves, Australia

Related to Bereavement, loss and grief

Open Leaves is a counselling and mental health bookseller which provides copies of Dr Janina Fisher’s flipchart, Psychoeducational Aids for Working with Psychological Trauma.

The flipchart comprises 22 diagrams and charts summarising the most current research and theoretical concepts in trauma treatment in simple graphic designs. Topics covered include common symptoms and difficulties related to experiences of trauma; effects on the nervous system and the brain; traumatic attachment; addictions and trauma; dissociative phenomena; and stages of treatment.

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Even Mummy Cries

Naomi Hunter

'Even Mummy Cries' is a beautifully illustrated storybook which explores issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing to young children in an age-appropriate way.
Book

Piecing The Puzzle Together: Raising young people when mental illness is part of your life

The COPMI national initiative

This booklet is for parents living with a mental health problem or mental illness, whose children are aged between 2 and 7 years. It's also for partners, family and friends.
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What’s Up With Our Parents? A Handbook For Older Children and Adolescents Whose Mother or Father has Mental Health Problems

Tytti Solantaus

This booklet was written in Finland and translated into English for older children and teenagers who have a parent with a mental illness. It attempts to explain what mental illness is and to answer common questions young people often have in an age-appropriate way.
Short article

Climate change-related worry in children and young people: What does the research evidence say?

Anagha Joshi, Australian Institute of Family Studies

This article describes the research evidence about climate change-related worry in children and young people.
Fact sheet

Talking to children about violent events

Emerging Minds

This resource offers tips for talking with children after a man-made disaster such as an act of mass violence.
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.
Fact sheet

How to talk to children about war and conflict

Emerging Minds

This fact sheet offers tips to help you have honest, age-appropriate conversations with your child about war and conflict.
In focus

In focus: Childhood bullying

Nicole Rollbusch

This 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.
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 Minds

This 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 Minds

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.
Webinar

Building parents’ understanding of play to nurture infant and toddler mental health

Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)

This webinar co-produced by the Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN) aimed to increase clinicians’ understanding of how to utilise play interventions with parents, infants and toddlers to promote connection, communication and overall mental health.

Open Leaves books for counselling and mental health

Open Leaves, Australia

Discover more resources

Even Mummy Cries

Piecing The Puzzle Together: Raising young people when mental illness is part of your life

What’s Up With Our Parents? A Handbook For Older Children and Adolescents Whose Mother or Father has Mental Health Problems

Climate change-related worry in children and young people: What does the research evidence say?

Talking to children about violent events

Primary health strategies for working with children who present with ADHD concerns

How to talk to children about war and conflict

In focus: Childhood bullying

Webinar | Supporting children who have disclosed trauma

When your parent has a mental illness

Supporting children who have disclosed trauma

Building parents’ understanding of play to nurture infant and toddler mental health

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