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Enhanced Practice Skills
3 hours
Foundations in child mental health
This course brings together the essential foundations of child mental health and the core understandings of trauma and adversity. It explores the mental health and wellbeing of children aged 0–12 years, and introduces the key developmental, relational, and environmental factors that shape their social and emotional outcomes.
1.5 hours
Honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in healing family violence
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
5 hours
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
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’.
2.5 hours
RACGP CPD
ACRRM
TQI
NESA
Practice strategies for formulation
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.
2.5 hours
Practice strategies for assessment and engagement
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.
6 hours
RACGP CPD
A GP framework for infant and early childhood mental health assessment (0-5 years)
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.
4 hours
Improving the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
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.
2 hours
Engaging children: Shrinking problems
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.
2 hours
Engaging children: Rich pictures
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.
2 hours
Supporting children in early learning following a disaster or community trauma
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.
1 hour
Using Aboriginal cultural knowledge systems to strengthen families’ resilience
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.
1 hour
Understanding child mental health and disability
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.
4 hours
Supporting children who have experienced trauma
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.
4 hours
Parental chronic physical illness and child-aware practice
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.
1.5 hours
Working with First Nations families and children: A framework for understanding
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.
2.5 hours
Promoting infant and toddler mental health with parents
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. This is referred to as ‘anticipatory guidance’.
3 hours
Supporting children's resilience in general practice
'Supporting children’s resilience in general practice' provides you with a conversation guide to assist your work with patients as parents, as well as a rationale for why GPs should conduct preventative conversations with parents about their children’s social and emotional wellbeing.
4 hours
Supporting parents to promote children’s social and emotional wellbeing
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.
2 hours
Supporting infants and toddlers
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.
15 hours
Family Talk
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.
1 hour
Understanding child mental health
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.
Enhanced Practice Skills