The pandemic has seen more children experience mental health troubles. Modelling compassion and fostering self-esteem will help
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Summer programmes should focus on physical activity, socialising, and being creative – not school work.
Parents can take a page from psychological research on trauma and recovery to help kids struggling with pandemic life.
We asked young people aged five to 15 in Darwin about their sense of safety and what they worry about in their community. Here’s what they told us.
Art can be a way to promote and support mental health in children, and understanding children’s experiences through the pandemic as seen through children’s art may help support them into the future.
Anxiety about starting school is common – among both children and parents. This can be for many reasons, but it’s useful to keep in mind exposure to our fears helps reduce anxiety.
Our report examines Australia’s educational performance against equity and excellence benchmarks. It finds the inequality gap is large and growing.
Children struggle amidst adversity, but these tumultuous and highly emotional times make it a critical time to teach ‘resilience’ – giving kids coping skills.
Some children are not socially engaging with their peers in the way they did before the pandemic. It’s understandable if parents are worried.
A concerning number of children in Australia have experienced trauma. Being more sensitive to what this means can help both the child and the teacher.
Getting students to move while learning a concept helps them understand it better. And it gets them off their seats.
Watching coronavirus coverage can cause anxiety in your child. An expert offers some tips that will help.
It’s worth going out of your way to ensure that kids practice interacting with others and maintain their friendships.
The effects of economic stress on children are big. Parents’ anxiety about their financial situation is equivalent to the effect of a divorce, and is likely at play amid COVID-19.
During the pandemic, children’s independent mobility may be more essential than ever before.
Governments must ensure access to preschool for all children, many of whom will have had their learning and development affected by COVID-19. It will help children recover, as well as the economy.
We’ve got this: parents can build kids’ resiliency in by focussing on what’s going well, maintaining some predictability and order, modelling belief in their own abilities and caring for themselves.
Multiplayer games can inspire creativity and sustain children’s friendships while sheltering at home
Early intervention with reading challenges has very high success rates for supporting reading development, but it is much more difficult to improve reading skills in older students.
By year three, children identified as having difficulties when they start school, are around nine months behind their peers in learning.
Kontributor teratas
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Deputy Lead of Education Policy, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Senior lecturer, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University
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Fulbright Scholar and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University
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Paediatrician and Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Monash University
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Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University
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Lecturer, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Adjunct Professor, Institute for Positive Psychology & Education, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Education, University of Sheffield
