Emerging Minds Podcast

In this episode, Dan Moss introduces us to six practice positions that can help practitioners to build positive working relationships with parents and create a foundation of safety to explore child social and emotional wellbeing. Dan worked as a practitioner and manager at Uniting Communities for more than 15 years and is currently the Workforce Development Manager at Emerging Minds.

In this episode you will learn:

Child aware and parent sensitive practice as a foundation for supporting wellbeing (06:39)

Importance of exploring the child’s ecology (8:49)

How busy practitioners can use the practice positions (12:46)

What helps practitioners feel confident discussing child social and emotional wellbeing (16:55) 

 

Further information and resources:

Children of Parents with a Mental Illness 

Six Practice Positions 

Engaging Parents – an Introduction

Supporting Children’s Resilience in General Practice

 

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In this episode, we talk with Ruth Tulloch about her experience in creating culturally authentic services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children. Ruth has worked in the community services and teaching sectors for 20 years. During the last five years, she has been involved in delivering the Aboriginal Community Connect program at Uniting Communities, working alongside elders and community members to co-design services that take a holistic approach to social and emotional wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities.

Key learnings:

– The importance of asking questions about cultural connection (05:18)

– Developing an authentic cultural supervision model (08:28)

– Including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural models in services (13:00)

– How to ask culturally sensitive questions (16:24)

The preferred terminology used by Emerging Minds in our resources is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, as guided by our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing National Consultancy Group.

 

Further information and resources: 

Smart Recovery

Motivational interviewing

One program manager’s journey to create culturally authentic support services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.

In this episode, we talk with Ruth Tulloch about her experience in creating culturally authentic services for Aboriginal families and children. Ruth has worked in the community services and teaching sectors for 20 years. During the last five years, she has been involved in delivering the Aboriginal Community Connect program at Uniting Communities, working alongside elders and community members to co-design services that take a holistic approach to social and emotional wellbeing for Aboriginal families and communities.

Key learnings:

– The importance of asking questions about cultural connection (05:18)

– Developing an authentic cultural supervision model (08:28)

– Including Aboriginal cultural models in services (13:00)

– How to ask culturally sensitive questions (16:24)

 

Further information and resources: 

Smart Recovery

Motivational interviewing

 

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In this episode, we speak with Dr Sara Whitburn about the role of GPs in promoting children’s resilience and mental health. Sara is a GP and lactation consultant in private practice in Melbourne who has a strong interest in women’s and children’s health and the early years of parenting. We discuss the unique opportunity that GPs have to support child mental health and ways of bringing the conversation into the consulting room.

Key learnings:

– Using the continuity of general practice to support children and families (02:39)

– Resources for GPs and families to support child social and emotional wellbeing (04:57)

– Questions to open up a conversation about family functioning and child mental health (09:15)

– Overcoming the barriers in general practice to support child mental health (14:30)

 

Further information and resources: 

Supporting Children’s Resilience in General Practice e-learning course

Raising Children Network

Australian Breastfeeding Association

iCOPE perinatal screening tool

In this episode, we speak with Dr Sara Whitburn about the role of GPs in promoting children's resilience and mental health. Sara is a GP and lactation consultant in private practice in Melbourne who has a strong interest in women's and children’s health and the early years of parenting. We discuss the unique opportunity that GPs have to support child mental health and ways of bringing the conversation into the consulting room.

- Using the continuity of general practice to support children and families (02:39)

- Resources for GPs and families to support child social and emotional wellbeing (04:57)

- Questions to open up a conversation about family functioning and child mental health (09:15)

- Overcoming the barriers in general practice to support child mental health (14:30)

 

Supporting Children's Resilience in General Practice e-learning course

Raising Children Network

Australian Breastfeeding Association

iCOPE perinatal screening tool

In this episode, we speak with Dr Sara Whitburn about the role of GPs in promoting children’s resilience and mental health. Sara is a GP and lactation consultant in private practice in Melbourne who has a strong interest in women’s and children’s health and the early years of parenting. We discuss the unique opportunity that GPs have to support child mental health and ways of bringing the conversation into the consulting room.

 

Key learnings:

– Using the continuity of general practice to support children and families (02:39)

– Resources for GPs and families to support child social and emotional wellbeing (04:57)

– Questions to open up a conversation about family functioning and child mental health (09:15)

– Overcoming the barriers in general practice to support child mental health (14:30)

 

Further information and resources: 

Supporting Children’s Resilience in General Practice e-learning course

Raising Children Network

Australian Breastfeeding Association

HEADSS assessment (Home, Education/employment, Activities, Drugs, Sexuality, and Suicide risk/depression)

iCOPE perinatal screening tool

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In this episode, we speak with Dr Nick Kowalenko, a child and adolescent psychiatrist based in Sydney. Nick has been practicing as a psychiatrist for more than 25 years and is President of the Tresillian Family Care Services Council as well as Deputy Chair of Emerging Minds. We talk infant and child mental health; what it looks like when things are going well and when things are not going so well; and the importance of the early years

In this episode you will learn:

What is infant mental health?  (06:10)

What places infant’s mental health at risk? (11:59)

How to start conversations about child mental health with parents who are facing adversity (18:08)

What specialist mental health services are available to infants and children?  (24:49)

 

Further information and resources:

Let’s Talk About Children 

Zero to Three website

Australian Association for Infant Mental Health

Early Childhood Australia

Raising Children Network

Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

In this episode, we speak with Dr Nick Kowalenko, a child and adolescent psychiatrist based in Sydney. Nick has been practicing as a psychiatrist for more than 25 years and is President of the Tresillian Family Care Services Council as well as Deputy Chair of Emerging Minds. We talk infant and child mental health; what it looks like when things are going well and when things are not going so well; and the importance of the early years

What is infant mental health?  (06:10)

What places infant’s mental health at risk? (11:59)

How to start conversations about child mental health with parents who are facing adversity (18:08)

What specialist mental health services are available to infants and children?  (24:49)

 

Let's Talk About Children 

Zero to Three website

Australian Association for Infant Mental Health

Early Childhood Australia

Raising Children Network

Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

In this episode, we speak with Dr Nick Kowalenko, a child and adolescent psychiatrist based in Sydney. Nick has been practicing as a psychiatrist for more than 25 years and is President of the Tresillian Family Care Services Council as well as Deputy Chair of Emerging Minds. We talk infant and child mental health; what it looks like when things are going well and when things are not going so well; and the importance of the early years.

 

In this episode you will learn:

What is infant mental health?  (06:10)

What places infant’s mental health at risk? (11:59)

How to start conversations about child mental health with parents who are facing adversity (18:08)

What specialist mental health services are available to infants and children?  (24:49)

 

Further information and resources:

Let’s Talk About Children 

Zero to Three website

Australian Association for Infant Mental Health

Early Childhood Australia

Raising Children Network

Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

 

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