Supporting infants and toddlers’ resilience during daily transitions

Child Family Community Australia & Emerging Minds, Australia, August 2024

Related to Infant and perinatal care, Infant mental health

This webinar with Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) focuses on promoting infants and toddlers’ confidence and sense of security by supporting parents/carers and educators to provide responsive and consistent daily transitions.

Facilitated by Vicki Mansfield (Practice Development Officer, Emerging Minds), our panel of presenters include:

Claudius Reiman (child and family partner)
Dr Robyn Dolby (psychologist)
Dr Belinda Friezer (psychologist and art therapist)

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In focus: Infant and toddler mental health

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This free online course will provide you with an introduction to a relationship-based framework that promotes the mental health of children aged 0-5 years.
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Practice strategies for infant and toddler assessment

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This course builds on the foundational knowledge by expanding on the ally, advocate and awareness of relationship framework that promotes the mental health of children aged 0–5 years.
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Practice strategies for formulation: Infants and toddlers

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This course aims to support you to extend your standard formulation practices by integrating the ally, advocate and awareness of relationship framework. It will also support you to bring your professional expertise together with the family’s know-how, to develop a shared understanding of the infants’ and toddlers’ experience.
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Practice strategies for implementation: Infants and toddlers

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In this course, you will consider skills that enable you to collaborate with parents to implement changes that enhance young children’s relational and developmental needs.
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Individual and family factors associated with child mental health and wellbeing

Melissa Willoughby and Joanna Schwarzman, Australian Institute of Family Studies

This short article describes the research evidence on individual and family factors associated with child mental health and wellbeing.
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Why we need to support infants and children before, during and after disasters

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Infants and children rely on the adults around them to meet their needs, keep them safe and help them to make sense of their world. This puts them at greater risk of adverse impacts when a disaster occurs. This practice paper introduces the foundational knowledge and skills needed to support children and families at all stages of a disaster (preparedness, response and recovery).
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Understanding how disasters influence infants and children

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This practice paper aims to equip practitioners with knowledge about the ways disasters can influence a child’s ecology and the importance of targeted support for children’s resilience and recovery in the short and long term.
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How psychological first aid can support infants, children and families who experience a disaster (part one)

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This paper is the first of two and introduces psychological first aid (PFA), a psychosocial support approach that can reduce distress and support the mental health of infants, children and families who have experienced a disaster.
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Psychological first aid with infants and children: Practice guidance (part two)

Emerging Minds

Part two of two: This paper provides guidance to practitioners offering psychological first aid with infants, children and families in the context of a disaster.
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Wellbeing for workers supporting children and families after a disaster

Emerging Minds

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Practices for supporting infant and child mental health after disasters

Emerging Minds

This paper provides practice guidance for addressing the immediate and long-term impacts of disasters on infant and child mental health using multifaceted approaches that promote resilience and mental health recovery.

Supporting infants and toddlers’ resilience during daily transitions

Child Family Community Australia & Emerging Minds, Australia, August 2024

Discover more resources

In focus: Infant and toddler mental health

Keeping the infant and toddler in mind

Practice strategies for infant and toddler assessment

Practice strategies for formulation: Infants and toddlers

Practice strategies for implementation: Infants and toddlers

Individual and family factors associated with child mental health and wellbeing

Why we need to support infants and children before, during and after disasters

Understanding how disasters influence infants and children

How psychological first aid can support infants, children and families who experience a disaster (part one)

Psychological first aid with infants and children: Practice guidance (part two)

Wellbeing for workers supporting children and families after a disaster

Practices for supporting infant and child mental health after disasters

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