For all infant and child mental health frontline practitioners.
Brief encounters that make a difference. In-person, in-the-moment support to
parents and children who have experienced trauma; supporting parenting states of mind; strategies to assist parenting of
children who have experienced trauma; working on “the line”: trauma informed
telephone advice and support
Observational skills; critical history taking; impact of trauma on the health and wellbeing of adults and parenting; core psychiatric and behavioural indices; tools for recognising trauma responses in the adult.
MERTIL for Parents
Observational skills; critical history taking; impact of trauma on the health and wellbeing of adults and parenting; core psychiatric and behavioural indices; tools for recognising trauma responses in the adult.
This course was developed for frontline staff and students in Victorian Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services. The course trains MCH staff to help protect young children from enduring effects of early relational trauma, covering both the detection of and response to Early Relational Trauma.
