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Practice paper
Keeping children and families in mind: Guidelines for media professionals reporting on disaster or community trauma events
Margaret Nixon and Jessica MastersThese guidelines for journalists and media professionals highlight the need to keep children and families in mind when reporting on traumatic events. They are intended to showcase best practice and to help protect not only the children, families, and communities who have experienced disaster and/or trauma, but also media staff and their families who may experience secondary traumatic stress from exposure to these events. -
Fact sheet
Keeping children and families in mind when reporting on disaster and community trauma events
Margaret Nixon and Jessica MastersThis fact sheet assists journalists and media staff to keeping children and families in mind when reporting on disaster and community trauma events. -
Fact sheet
Journalists and media staff as parents and carers
Margaret Nixon and Jessica MastersThis fact sheet recognises the role journalists and media staff have as parents and carers. -
Online course
Child-centred and family-focused practice with children with disability
Emerging MindsThis course introduces family-focused practice strategies for supporting the important relationships in a child’s life. -
Online course
Child-centred and communication-focused practice with children with disability
Emerging MindsThis course introduces communication-focused practice strategies for supporting children with disability to express themselves. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: March 2022
VariousThis March 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
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'. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: February 2022
VariousThis February 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. -
Webinar
Supporting the wellbeing of infants and children through a trauma-informed lens
Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)Facilitated by Chris Dolman (Senior Practice Development Officer, Emerging Minds), this webinar aimed to recognise complex trauma in infants and children and ways to promote wellbeing. -
In focus
In focus: Prevention and early intervention
Emerging MindsPrevention and early intervention in the life of a child, or the life of a vulnerability or difficulty, are vital elements in improving infant and child mental health. This resource outlines the difference between prevention and early intervention, strategies for identifying mental health concerns and supports for families and practitioners. -
In focus
In focus: Child, family and practitioner voice
Emerging MindsWithin the mental health context, service delivery can be designed to honour the participants' voices: children, families and practitioners. This resource includes information about the aspects to consider when service organisations prioritise the voices of children, families and practitioners in service co-design. -
Research summary
Highlights in child mental health research: January 2022
VariousThis January 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.