Respectful Relationships & Wellbeing News

Topic 6 Help Seeking

Children can experience all kinds of challenges as they grow and develop. The help-seeking behaviours of children are fundamental to their mental health and wellbeing. Encouraging and fostering help-seeking behaviours is one way to improve mental health and wellbeing. It is important to work with students to make sure they are aware about help-seeking avenues and confident to seek help from an appropriate source when needed.

The Imperfects Season 4, Episode 15 – Lael Stone

This is a great clip of being a parent and how to deal with the importance of our kids being able to come and see us when they need to.

In the words of her own child, Lael Stone “works for the kids”.

But while Lael is technically a therapist who supports parents in understanding their children, everything Lael talks about in this edition of The Academy of Imperfection could easily be applied to all of us in understanding the people in our lives – no matter what age. Whether that be our friends, parents, colleagues or even ourselves.

Through her work, Lael helps adults process their own childhood trauma, and creates education systems that value emotional awareness, demonstrating why it all comes back to connection and compassion.

If you have a listen please let me know what what you think or if you have any other questions regarding our school's wellbeing programs you can contact me on sbrown@shsandringham.catholic.edu.au

Online information sessions with child psychologist Deirdre Brandner

To support parents, carers and mentors of children aged under 12 years old, Bayside City Council presents four comprehensive information sessions in the latest Positive Parenting series with the highly respected child Psychologist Deirdre Brandner.

Deirdre is skilled in working with children who experience social, emotional and academic difficulties.

These sessions will cover:

Worry and anxiety: how to help. 24 August, 7-8pm
Building resilience and managing emotions. 21 September, 7-8pm
Parenting challenges: all the tricks. 26th October, 7-8pm
Setting your child up for success. 23rd November, 7-8pm

Cost $12.25 per session.

A link to each of the online Microsoft Teams events will be provided after registration.

Simon Brown

Head of Wellbeing