Let's Talk about Children - Integrated Online& Practice Session

Description

The training material has been developed and refined in collaboration with parents with mental ill health. The training team includes people with lived experience of parenting and mental ill health.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A 2 X 1/2 DAY TRAINING WORKSHOP. PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER FOR AND ATTEND BOTH SESSIONS.

Let’s Talk About Children (Let’s Talk), a brief evidenced-based practice, is one part of a suite of family-inclusive practices that promote the parent-child relationships that are the foundations for child development and healthy adult life.

Let’s Talk aims to make talking about children and parenting issues a natural part of the collaborative therapeutic alliance between parents and practitioners to support the consumer to parent as well as they can in the context of their situation and promote recovery for the parent and family. It has been developed for work with parents who have dependent children, have an active parenting role and/or who have children in their care. Its use with all parents, regardless of custody, acknowledges that the loss of the parenting role or feelings of inadequacy in the role can be a contributing factor to poor mental health.

Let’s Talk practice uses a series of strength-based conversations with the parent to promote the agency of the parent and the social networks around the child. In the conversations, the parent and practitioner explore the needs of the child, how the parent’s mental health and/ or coexisting issues may be affecting their parenting and their child, and any assistance they may need to promote harmonious family life. It uses supportive resources to equip parents to have conversations with their child and family about their mental health and/or coexisting issues.

This course incorporates a theoretical component using the Emerging Minds Let’s Talk about Children (Let’s Talk) online course with an application component which orients practitioner to the use of Let’s Talk and provides opportunity for reflection and practice to equip practitioners to use it in their everyday work with parents.

The session will include a variety of mediums including audiovisual material, large and small group discussion and reflection, practice sessions (aka role play) and powerpoint presentation.

As live virtual training you will need to ensure you have adequate access to internet, a device with camera and audio capability, an environment where you can attend the whole session without interruption and the ability to download/ print resource material that you can access during the training.