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Culturally responsive practice strategies for children’s mental health
2hrs
Explore five key skills and fundamental practice approaches for working with families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Our Woven Ways: Connecting practitioners with the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families
2hrs
This course looks at the intersection between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parenting and a child-centred community approach. It asks you to think about how colonisation has interrupted important connections, while prompting you to think about your cultural biases, current practice perspectives, and how you can build connections with Aboriginal and Torres Strait families using strengths-based practice.
Practice strategies for formulation: Infants and toddlers
3hrs
This course focuses on work with children aged 0–5 years and is designed for practitioners who work with infants, toddlers and families who draw on case formulation processes to inform their practice.
An introduction to family partnerships for educators
2hrs
This course introduces the concept of family partnerships as a practice for supporting children’s mental health, development and overall wellbeing.
Replanting the Birthing Trees: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children in the first 2,000 days
5hrs
The course focuses on the critical first 2,000 days of a child’s life and honours the wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parenting practices that have endured for over 60,000 years. It invites practitioners to be curious, notice this ancient knowledge and consider how it can be applied in contemporary practices.
Supervision for children's wellbeing
2hrs
This course will provide supervisors with a framework for working with practitioners to improve engagement with children and families while helping to support meaningful change in their lives.
Understanding brain development
5hrs
This course will provide you with an increased awareness, knowledge, and understanding of foundational concepts about developmental neuroscience (brain development).
Supporting children's mental health when working with separating parents
2hrs
This course focuses on making children’s wellbeing a central aspect of the conversations practitioners have with parents who are going through separation or divorce.
Understanding children's mental health in culturally diverse communities
2hrs
This course explores practice considerations that support culturally responsive and inclusive practice with families. It introduces four key areas to consider when working with families from a culture different to your own.
Practice strategies for infant and toddler assessment
3hrs
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.
Practice strategies for childhood bullying
4hrs
This course focuses on skills that will help you to support the mental health of children who have been experiencing or engaging in bullying behaviour.
Engaging children: Creative conclusions
1hr
Develop your confidence in creating opportunities for children to contribute ideas to help other families facing similar circumstances, and explore practice skills for finishing your work with children and families.
Engaging children: Ideas that stick
2hrs
Children’s skills, know-how, creativity and interests in different areas of life can be put to good use when responding to problems. Ideas that stick emphasises a range of practice skills for exploring and extending on children's responses to the problems they are facing.
Engaging children: Paving the way with parents
3hrs
Establishing a sense of collaboration with parents is vital for paving the way for engaging effectively with children. Paving the way with parents describes practices for engaging parents in conversations that explore the hopes and concerns for their child's mental health and wellbeing.
Supporting the mental health of children with higher weight
2hrs
This course examines practice strategies for supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of children with higher weight.
Rebuilding our shields: Sharing the stories of deadly dads
1hr 30mins
This course aims to dismantle dominant stereotypes and help you better understand the critical role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fathers have in supporting their children to grow up healthy, strong and thriving.
Understanding childhood bullying and mental health
1hr 30mins
This course introduces practitioners to the impact of childhood bullying on the mental health of Australian children aged 4–12 years.
Supporting children who disclose trauma
3hrs
This course examines practice strategies for supporting children who have disclosed trauma or abuse directly to you or another person, or children who you know have experienced trauma or abuse.
Honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in healing family violence
1hr 30mins
The course will help you to think about the whole family – their hopes, aspirations, strengths and stories of connections to family, kinship, Country and culture – as well as family histories of problems, challenges and trauma.
Keeping the infant and toddler in mind
2hrs
This course will provide you with an introduction to a relationship-based framework that promotes the mental health of children aged 0–5 years.
Child-centred and family-focused practice with children with disability
1hr 30mins
This course looks at how child-centred and family-focused practice can help you to understand and respond to children with disability (aged 0–12 years) in ways that support their social and emotional wellbeing.
Child-centred and communication-focused practice with children with disability
1hr 30mins
This course explores how a communication-focused approach can support children with disability to overcome any communication challenges that may be impacting their mental health.
Practice strategies for implementation
2hrs 30mins
This course explores strategies you can use to facilitate children's participation in implementing interventions to support their mental health and wellbeing.
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
5hrs
This course, designed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners and researchers, reflects the strengths, resilience and perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It shares learnings from four years of co-design work, led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, to develop strategies to identify and support parents experiencing complex trauma – ‘healing the past by nurturing the future’.
Understanding child mental health and chronic physical conditions
1hr
This course will provide you with an introduction to the impact of chronic physical conditions on the mental health of children aged 0–12 years.
Practice strategies for formulation
2hrs 30mins
This course is part of a suite that examines practice skills and strategies to help support collaborative engagements with children and their families. These skills and strategies are effective in providing early identification and prevention responses to children’s mental health issues.
Practice strategies for assessment and engagement
2hrs 30mins
This course is part of a suite of products that examines practice skills and strategies that help support collaborative engagement with children and their families. These skills and strategies are effective in providing early identification and prevention responses to children’s mental health issues.
A GP framework for infant and early childhood mental health assessment (0-5 years)
6hrs
This course is for general practitioners looking to increase their skills in assessing, managing, and supporting infants and young children (0-5 years) with mental health difficulties, and supporting their families.
Parental mental illness and child-aware practice
4hrs
Practitioners are well placed to hold preventative conversations with parents, to help reduce any negative impacts of the parent’s mental illness, and to support the parent’s strengths and hopes for their family.
Healing through voice, culture and Country
1hr
This foundation course aims to help practitioners to work with parents where family and domestic violence (FDV) is a concern, supporting children’s social and emotional wellbeing in culturally responsive ways.
Improving the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
4hrs
This course will use a positive, ‘hope-inspiring’ focus to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners in their work with First Nations children and families, reinforcing their connections, strengths and skills.
Supporting secondary students following a disaster or community trauma
2hrs
This course provides secondary school educators with a foundational understanding of their role in the recovery process following a natural disaster or community trauma.
Supporting primary students following a disaster or community trauma
2hrs
This course provides primary school educators with a foundational understanding of their role in the recovery process following a disaster or community trauma.
Engaging children: Shrinking problems
2hrs
In this course you will work towards developing your confidence to utilise a range of practice skills for working with children to understand the child’s perspective on their problems they are contending with, and begin to reduce their impact on the child’s mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.
Engaging children: Rich pictures
2hrs
In this course you will work towards developing your confidence to utilise a range of practice skills for beginning to develop a rich picture of children’s strengths, skills, know-how and values. These skills can provide a foundation for reducing the impact of problems on their mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.
Engaging children: Good beginnings
3hrs
In this course you will work towards developing your confidence to utilise a range of practice skills in beginning to work with children in relation to their mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.
Supporting children in early learning following a disaster or community trauma
2hrs
This course has been developed to provide educators with a foundational understanding of their role in the recovery process following a natural disaster or community trauma. It offers a practical framework and tips for supporting children in the immediate aftermath, short-term and long-term following a trauma event, as well as preparedness skills and knowledge you can use in your daily practice and programs.
Using Aboriginal cultural knowledge systems to strengthen families’ resilience
1hr
This course provides a framework to help guide you in your work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, using the ‘Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge Systems to Strengthen Families’ Resilience’ yarning cards and tools.
Understanding child mental health and disability
1hr
This course explores mental health for children aged 0-12 years who are living with disability. It will help you to identify the factors that support a child’s social and emotional wellbeing and introduce you to key concepts in disability-aware practice.
Supporting children who have experienced trauma
4hrs
This course aims to use trauma-informed practice to study the detail and skills of therapeutic engagement, from working with reluctant children – who are often ambivalent or anxious about sharing their stories – to identifying their resilience and strengths, helping them move past self-blame and hopelessness.
Parental chronic physical illness and child-aware practice
4hrs
Parental chronic physical illness can have a direct impact on children's social and emotional wellbeing. Professionals working with parents experiencing physical illness are well placed to have preventative conversations to reduce the negative impacts for children.
A GP framework for child mental health assessment (5-12 years)
6hrs
This course is for general practitioners who wish to increase their skills in assessing, managing, and supporting children (5-12 years) with mental health difficulties, and supporting their families.
Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children: A framework for understanding
1hr 30mins
This course will assist non-Indigenous practitioners to develop the skills and understanding needed to build genuine partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families and communities. It will also help you to understand how this will benefit and enrich you personally and professionally.
Promoting infant and toddler mental health with parents
2hrs 30mins
This course explores the ways practitioners can support parents by providing reassurance, guidance, information or resources to promote positive mental health in their infant or toddler stage. This is referred to as ‘anticipatory guidance’.
Intergenerational mental health
3hrs
This course supports professionals to apply an 'intergenerational lens' to their work, to better understand histories of family disadvantage and positively influence parent–child relationships and children’s mental health.
Supporting children's resilience in general practice
3hrs
This course provides you with a conversation guide to assist your work with patients as parents, as well as a rationale for why GPs and practice nurses should conduct preventative conversations with parents about their children’s social and emotional wellbeing.
The impact of trauma on the child
1hr
This course will introduce you to key understandings about trauma and adversity, and their impact on children.
Let's talk about children (Let's Talk)
8hrs
'Let’s talk about children (Let’s Talk)' is a brief, evidence-based method that trains professionals to have a structured discussion with parents who experience mental illness about parenting and their child’s needs.
Engaging with parents
2hrs
This course introduces you to ways that you can actively and effectively engage with parents about their children’s social and emotional wellbeing.
Supporting parents to promote children’s social and emotional wellbeing
4hrs
This course explores entry points and opportunities for conversations between practitioners and parents which promote children’s social and emotional wellbeing by focussing on support, reassurance, guidance, information, or resources.
Family and domestic violence and child-aware practice
4hrs
This course examines opportunities for practitioners to engage in a prevention and early intervention approach to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing in the context of family and domestic violence (FDV).
Supporting children and families in general practice after a natural disaster or community trauma
1hr
This course is for GPs working with families and children affected by natural disasters such as fire, floods or storms, or by community trauma events.
Supporting infants and toddlers
2hrs
The course explores the impact of mental illness on the family through the antenatal period and explains attachment and principles of sensitive communication with parents regarding the needs of their children. You will learn about parenting interventions and strategies to effectively support families.
Parental substance use and child-aware practice
4hrs
This course examines preventative opportunities and entry points to promote children’s mental health with parents in the context of parental substance use.
Engaging with children
1hr
This course introduces you to the concept of engaging children as partners in practice, as a foundation for responding to child mental health concerns.
Family Talk
15hrs
The 'Family Talk' intervention is an evidence-based program designed for mental health professionals working with parents experiencing depression and/or anxiety to foster resilience in their children and the family unit. This course will introduce you to the core principles and structure of the 'Family Talk' intervention, and the impact of parental depression and anxiety on children and families.
Understanding child mental health
1hr
This course explores mental health for children aged 0-12 years. It will help practitioners to identify the factors that support positive mental health in children, and understand how the different parts of a child’s world interact to influence their social and emotional wellbeing.
Building blocks for children’s social and emotional wellbeing
1hr
This course explores the key elements of a child’s social and emotional wellbeing. These ‘building blocks’ can be a helpful starting point when working with parents to identify issues or concerns regarding their children.
The impact of family and domestic violence on the child
1hr
This course provides you with an introduction to the impact of family and domestic violence (FDV) on children.
The impact of parental substance use on the child
1hr
This course explores the impact of parental alcohol and other drugs (AOD) use, or substance use, on children’s relationships, physical health, and social and emotional wellbeing.
Child aware practice
1hr 30mins
This course aims to enhance understanding about the impact that adult problems may have on children and to support practitioners to think about children early in any contact with a parent.
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