Search Results for "care plan"
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Fact sheet
Out-of-home care: Talking about mental illness with children in your care
Emerging MindsTalking to the children in your care about their parent's mental illness can help them make meaning of their family's situation, remove stigma and let them know they can talk to you when they need support. -
Guide
How to use the Emerging Minds child care plan templates
Emerging MindsThis document steps parents and practitioners through the process of completing Emerging Minds child care plan templates. -
Fact sheet
My child’s care plan
Emerging MindsThis plan contains information to be used to help care for a child should a parent or caregivers become unavailable to care for them themselves. -
Fact sheet
Baby care plan template
Emerging MindsThis care plan template is designed for parents to complete regarding the care of their infant when they are unwell or unavailable. -
Fact sheet
Care plan template – for children and young people
Emerging MindsThis care plan template is designed for young people to complete with the guidance of their parent, providing instructions for their care when their parents are unwell or unavailable. -
Fact sheet
Self-care plan – blank
Emerging MindsThis planner can help you to identify your own personal signs of stress and plan strategies that may help you to manage your own stress and emotions. -
Fact sheet
Self-care plan – completed
Emerging MindsUse this planner to see examples that will help you to identify your own personal signs of stress and plan strategies. -
Practice paper
Recognising and strengthening the stories of children in care
Nicole Rollbusch and Dan MossThis paper identifies practical ways professionals working with children who are in care can bring children’s histories to life in ways that support their sense of identity and confidence, even when children’s experiences with their birth families included trauma or neglect. -
Practice paper
Supporting families while they wait for a health care service
Sara Abdi, Parenting Research CentreExtended wait times to access health services can be harmful for children and their family, but health care practitioners can support families on a waitlist through regular communication and contact, planning, identifying informal supports, and providing information and resources to support them through the waiting period. -
Practice paper
Supporting children’s participation through shared decision-making in child mental health care
Michele Hervatin, Parenting Research CentreThis paper is part of a suite of resources focusing on children’s participation in decisions that affect them. This resource introduces practitioners to the concepts of children’s participation and shared decision making in children’s mental health care. -
Guide
Interpreting your Results Wheels and developing your action plan in Emerging Minds Focus
Emerging MindsThis guide has been developed to support Change Teams to interpret their Results Wheels and develop an action plan within the Emerging Minds Focus quality improvement tool. -
Short article
Children with anxiety and depression may be at greater risk due to gaps in care
Louise Ellis, Louise Wiles, Raghu Lingam, Gaston Arnolda, Peter Hibbert, and Jeffrey BraithwaiteDepression and anxiety are two of the most common mental health disorders which, together, affect around one in five children and adolescents. With a lack of research on services for depression and anxiety in children, a study led by the Australian Institute of Health called the Care Track Kids project provided a detailed picture of how Australian children with anxiety or depression are treated, and how much of this treatment is in accordance with clinical practice guidelines (CPGs).