The August 2012 edition
of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s School-Link newsletter on mental health
and intellectual disability in children and adolescents is now available on the School-Link website or at this direct link
Highlights
include:
· Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders (FASD): Raising awareness of a preventable disability in our
midst by Associate Professor David Dossetor
· Neglect and the
Developing Brain by Dr Phil Ray
· Play Therapy and the
Yellow Brick Road by Kellie van Sebille
· Conference reviews, upcoming training and
much more.
· School Link Coordinator Jodie Caruana writes in her editorial:
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
School-Link Initiative has been working with Ageing, Disability and Home Care,
Department of Family and Community Services (ADHC) and several Department of
Education and Community Schools for Specific Purposes across NSW to deliver the
Group Stepping Stones Triple P parenting program.
Stepping Stones is delivered
to groups of parents or carers with children with a developmental disability
(aged 0-12 years) to reduce problem behaviour. The program is delivered over the
course of 9 weeks involving 6 x 2½ hour group sessions and 3 x (15-30 minute)
individual telephone consultations. School staff (school counsellors or
teachers) were trained and accredited by Triple P in 2011 and then paired with a
trained staff member from ADHC to co-facilitate the program to a group of
parents in their school.
Groups are only just finishing up but preliminary
reports from the facilitators are that the groups have been very successful. We will report more on this project in the next edition.
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