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National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health - Recognising and strengthening the

14 Mar 2024

The Australian Childhood Maltreatment Study paints When children don’t have the language to make a concerning picture of the multiple forms of physical, sense of their experiences, their confusion can emotional and sexual abuse that are experienced by be amplified. [...] This in conversations about their lives, they can begin confidence is built through the assumption that to make meaning of their experiences, or make new children have the right to be heard and involved in connections, which help support their positive identity. [...] In the following video (1 minute, 30 seconds), Jackie Amos, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, explains the importance of practitioners having the courage to communicate with children about their placement in care, despite the challenges associated with these conversations. [...] Both practitioners who work in out-of-home care Rather than asking children to describe only the settings and children with experience living in negative aspects of their histories, practitioners in these environments suggest that collaborative out-of-home care settings have become curious relationships between carers and practitioners are about context of the events of their lives, the skill and. [...] importance of engaging children in conversations Practitioners can work together with carers to help about their past, aiding their understanding of their each other understand that the sudden loss of journey, and the benefits of transparency and honest family, friends, home and belongings that children communication have also been discussed.
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