In this podcast episode, Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven speaks with Dr. Kirsten Meyer, Drama Therapist who has a particular interest in how the Arts can be used to enhance the capacity of care workers to respond to children and young people. Kirsten currently leads a team of creative arts, therapists, and counsellors in a community-based organisation in Melbourne, working with children, young people and their carers who have experienced family violence.

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In this podcast, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven sounds a warning about  ADHD as a disposal diagnosis for vulnerable children, adolescents and adults that papers over complex social problems post Covid, and ignores longstanding clinical and research evidence of parent/child relational attachment that underpins the capacity for attention and self-regulation.

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In this episode, Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven speaks with Scott Cadby, school counsellor and wellbeing coordinator at an all-boys college in Melbourne. This conversation discusses what helps boys develop positive mental health through adolescence and how much they need their fathers as mentors and supporters in this critical process.

In this episode, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven presents her talk; It’s not Just Child’s Play: Understanding the meaning of children’s behaviour. Far from being dismissed as a simplistic process, child’s play is part of everyday ‘work’. It is a rich complex and meaningful experience that helps children make sense of their world and helps adults to make sense of children’s behaviour.

Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven is a child psychotherapist, clinical psychologist and educator, who has brought a pioneering approach to clinical work that emphasizes the essential nature of the meaning of behaviour.

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In this episode, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven, child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks with professor of media at the University of Sydney, Dr Catharine Lumby.

We discuss the book 'Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts' written by Catharine together with lead author Associate Professor Camilla Nelson. In this episode, we talk about what has been described as the lacerating culture of family courts that does not serve the best interests of children, ways in which is denies them a voice, and the need for urgent reform of the system.

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In this episode, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven, child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks with child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Adam Goren.

Adam has a special interest in using sensory-attachment strategies, parent-child interventions and family advocacy in addressing mental distress and relational trauma.

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In this episode, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven, child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks with paediatrician, Dr. Lynda Chadwick.

In this episode, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven, child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks with Dr. Maria Papadima, child and adolescent psychotherapist.

Maria describes an innovative approach that helps adolescents, and their families negotiate these challenging transitions. Maria explains how in psychotherapy with adolescents, we explore ideas about what distress means, how we accept and handle it and what our expectations are of a normal life.

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References: www.acfd.com.au www.centreforchildandfamily.com

In this episode, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven, child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks to Jordan Foster about cyber safety for children and adolescents.

Jordan is a clinical psychologist and founder of ySafe which has provided online safety education to half a million students, families, and school staff in Australia. Her extensive expertise has been applied in work with managing problematic technology use, cyber-bullying, image-based abuse, and internet gaming addiction.

Talking Child Development is brought to you by the Association of Child and Family Development.

References: www.acfd.com.au www.centreforchildandfamily.com

In this episode, Dr Ruth Schmidt Neven, child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist talks to fellow child and adolescent psychotherapist Ryan Lowe in London who is the founder and clinical director of the Therapeutic Consultants a series of multi-disciplinary therapy clinics.

Ryan trained at the Tavistock clinic. She has worked at the Tavistock’s day unit for children with complex needs, in the Tavistock’s adolescent department and at the Monroe Young Family Centre where she carried out assessments for family law courts.  She has taught and been an examiner on various trainings.

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