In this episode we are chatting with Dani Gold, who is a senior social worker in the Family Violence team at the RCH. Dani’s current work focuses on supporting healthcare workers to understand and respond to children and families experiencing Family Violence.

Today we are delving into Family Violence as well as gender-based violence, which are both health issues. As healthcare workers, by recognising and responding to Family Violence, even in small ways, we can have a significant impact on the lives of children and their caregivers. This conversation provides listeners with the tools to recognise and respond to Family Violence, including how to frame conversations and advocate for families, thus enhancing the safety and dignity of those we care for. 

Resources - (some of these are Australia specific)

1800 RESPECT 

Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre 

No To Violence Men’s Referral Service

Djirra

WithRespect

Safer Families centre

This is the final part for our Wadja mini-series. We'll be asking our guests questions like; Why is it important to have an understanding of families and kinship systems when working with First Nations children and their families? What are the common issues that Aboriginal Children present to RCH with? What should we keep-in-mind when we care for children and young people being cared for at RCH?

Join us in hearing about the complexities that first nations people face in a hospital setting and how might staff better support them.

Hosted by Emma King with special guest A/Prof. Michelle Rodrigues

SEARCH pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov for publications around skin of colour.

Brown Skin Matters:

Dr Jim Muir, Skin of colour, ACCRM

National Eczema Society, Skin pigmentation and eczema:

Vitiligo Foundation:

Dermnet, Dermatological conditions in skin of colour:

Dermnet; Melanoma in skin of colour:

Dermnet, Ethnic  dermatology:

In this episode, host Camille Foley explores an important topic: anxiety in children and young people, viewed from two distinct perspectives. In the first section, Steph an adult, shares her lived and ongoing experience with anxiety. She is someone who has always experienced anxiety but received a formal diagnosis later in her adult life. The second section features insights from Senior Clinical Psychologists, Jesse Richardson and Georgie Cox, who offer their professional expertise on supporting young people and their supporters, clinical approaches, and evidence-based treatments for anxiety.

Links:

Guideline for staff:

Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guideline for Anxiety in Children and Young People - Mental Health Central

Family resource:

Childhood anxiety: a guide for parents, carers, and supporters - Mental Health Central

Losing a child is a really difficult time for any family. Families are given the option of organ donation to make an everlasting legacy for their child. To coincide with donate life week, this podcast features Mellissa Short CNC Organ Donation and Karen Sullivan Operating Theatres who talk about the rarity of organ donation and the incredible journey and intricacies of organ donation. 

Resources

Australia only - donatelife.gov.au

To find out more about organ donation in your country, visit your local organ donation website for details.

In this episode of Conversation with the Experts, host Camille Foley speaks with consultant psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Court and paediatrician Dr. Alex Cussen about Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) in young people, real physical symptoms like pain or fatigue that don’t have a clear medical cause. The episode also provides suggestions for service delivery for MUS presentations and provides insights from families and young people with lived experience of MUS.

In this final episode of our three-part narrative medicine mini-series, join us for a conversation on Jackson’s Opening. A poem by Andy Jackson. We unpack the layers of meaning within our wounds, challenging us to rethink scars and the narratives that emerge from them. 

Link to the poem Opening by Andy Jackson. 

In this episode from the Royal Children’s Hospital, we dive into the practical challenges of giving medicines to kids. Join host Amanda Stock, Paediatric Emergency Consultant, as she chats with Clinical Pharmacist Natalija Bogunovic, and Child Life Therapist Anne-Maree Leahy. Together, they explore common concerns and share expert advice on how to give tablets and capsules, safely part-dose medicines, and support children in learning to swallow tablets. Whether you're a parent, caregiver or healthcare provider, this episode is packed with helpful strategies to make medicine time less stressful and more successful for everyone. 

In this second - bonus narrative medicine episode - we discuss Zdravka Evtimova’s haunting short story, Blood of a Mole. Join us as we reflect on themes of empathy, detachment and burnout. Like in the previous podcast, we'd like you to get involved in the writing component during our chat. This will help you digest the story better as well as give you an opportunity to create your own ending to this part of the story. 

Link to the short story Blood of a Mole by Zdravka Evtimova 

Today’s episode provides a deep dive into trauma and trauma-informed preventative care (TIPC), and how it guides the way we approach care for children, young people, and families, and for ourselves as healthcare providers.

Listen as Rachel Tolan, a senior mental health clinician and credentialed mental health nurse, speaks about the clinical side of TIPC, as well as guest Carmen Ludeman, a lived experience advisor, who provides a unique perspective from the lens of families, carers, and supporters."

Resources: