Child development
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Relationships & child development | Raising Children Network
Loving relationships with parents and carers are critical in early child development. These relationships shape the way children see the world. Read more.
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Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Child development: 4-5 years
This topic is about your four year old
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Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Child development: 3-4 years
In the course of this year (3 to 4 years old)children are moving out of babyhood into childhood
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Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Child development: 1-2 years
The time between one and two is one of rapid change
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Child development: the first five years | Raising Children Network
The first five years of life are critical for child development. Find out how your childs experiences and relationships shape the way your child develops.
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Child development from 5-6 years | Raising Children Network
Want to know about child development at 5-6 years? This essential guide explains your childs thinking, feeling, language, physical development and more.
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Child development in first 8 years: video | Raising Children Network
Child development and learning in the first eight years lays foundations for life. Development happens through play and interactions, as this video shows.
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Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Child development: 10-12 years
Child development; ten year old; eleven year old; twelve year old; ten; eleven; twelve; development; 10; 11; 12; social; emotional; physical; cognitive; puberty; cosical skills; physical development; sex; sport ;From 10 to 12 years of age,children start to move from "childhood" to a view of a more adult world that they will clearly want, or be forced to join, in the near future
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Boredom, play & child development: video | Raising Children Network
Boredom is great for play and child development. This video explains how children have to use problem-solving and creative thinking when theyre bored.
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Parenting and Child Health - Health Topics - Child development: 5-6 years
Many children begin school at five
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Working with children/youth
Advice for early childhood workers to help you to assist children who have a parent with a mental illness.
Read more on COPMI – Children of Parents with a Mental Illness website
Working with children/youth
Advice for child protection workers when working with children and young people who have a parent with a mental illness.
Read more on COPMI – Children of Parents with a Mental Illness website
Resources for groups affected by childhood trauma & abuse
Online resources & information on different types of child abuse & trauma for survivors, families, friends, health & legal professionals & organisations.
Read more on Blue Knot Foundation website
Working with parents
Advice for child protection workers when working with parents who experience mental illness, their partners and carers.
Read more on COPMI – Children of Parents with a Mental Illness website
Professional development
About professional development options, to help professionals and services strengthen their skills around working with parents who experience mental illness and their families.
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Information and resources for survivors , supporters and health professionals
Information for survivors and to better understand childhood trauma, abuse and complex trauma.
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Bullying | Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network
While children, adolescents and adults may deal with many adversities during their lives, one of the most pervasive and difficult to deal with is bullying. Bullying is often subtle and can be difficult to define. Nowhere is bullying more damaging than when it occurs in childhood, affecting children and adolescents of all ages. It reflects power inequities, which may be particularly damaging to the child's development, self esteem, capacity to function and learning.
Read more on Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network (ACATLGN) website
Paediatric, Limp
This pathway provides guidance on imaging a child with a newly developed limp.
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Research | Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network
The network aims to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the area of child and adolescent trauma, loss and grief. Through the website, the network aims to promote research on
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Perinatal depression and anxiety: Evidence relating to infant cognitive and emotional development
Managing perinatal depression and anxiety is important for maternal, as well as infant, wellbeing.1 Persistent maternal stress, depression and anxiety can result in detrimental effects on infant development, both during pregnancy and postnatally.
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