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Podcast: Emerging Minds Podcast
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Parental substance use and child-focused practice
Category: Health
Duration: 00:33:01
Publish Date: 2019-09-30 10:17:38
Description:

In this episode, host Sophie Guy sits down with Gill Munro, social worker and workforce development officer at Emerging Minds to discuss child-focused practice in the AOD (alcohol and other drugs) sector. Before joining Emerging Minds, Gill managed a large specialist drug and alcohol service in South Australia. She draws on this experience as well as her recent involvement in developing a suite of e-learning resources, describing the importance of understanding trauma and how stigma and shame can prevent parents from engaging in services.

In this episode you will learn:

  • How using a trauma-informed approach is important for responding helpfully to challenging behaviour (03:00)
  • What child-focused practice looks like in the AOD sector (07:48)
  • The challenge of strengthening parent-child relationships when shame and stigma are present (13:16)
  • What policy changes could increase child-focused practice to support child mental health (25:29)
  • Promising practice in the AOD sector (27:50)

 

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