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1: Building strengths & resilience; staying connected
2: Fostering children's language & narratives about family life
3: Building children’s understanding; household transitions
4: Emotional, physical & cognitive responses to parents' work
5: Social responses to parents working away (work rosters); household transitions
6. Parent/carer physical and mental health, community links
7: Parenting from different states/continents, sharing
8: Work-related injuries (physical and mental)
9: Work-related mental health conditions; moral injury
10: Relationship breakdown
11: Addictions
12: Abuse (family and domestic violence, child abuse, neglect)
13: When a parent dies in service (including death by suicide)
14: Child and family trauma
15: And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story
16: In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story
17: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's story
18: Liam's story: So why do I wear Dad's medals?
Dad's Moral Injury Cloud: Lara's Story
Moral Injury
Relocations; household transitions
Benefits, challenges and supports within service family life
Transitioning from service, changing roles and leaving service
Worried about your child's wellbeing and mental health?
Complex PTSD
Complex PTSD Storybook
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Learning about Complex-PTSD at Pet Therapy School: Noah's Story (Online version)
Learning about Complex-PTSD at Pet Therapy School: Noah's Story (Online version)
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Defence families: deployment, absence from home, training and workups
First Responder families: Terms for working and working away
Terminology note: deployment, absence from home, training and workups
Using your child's strengths to help children develop skills and interests
Characteristics of strong families
How to use children’s strengths to build resilience and stay connected
Practical ways to work with children's strengths
Video: Staying connected when home and away for Remote Workers (4 minutes)
Remote Worker families: Staying Connected
Reading (9 mins): Tips for building resilience
Reading (3 mins): Building resilience in children
Plugging into protective factors in defence families
Resilient Defence Families
Praise, encouragement and rewards
Reading: Positive encouragement and your child (Birth-11 years) (copy)
Reading: Reward charts -how to use them to change child behaviour (3-8 years)
Multimedia article: Praise, encouragement and rewards (1-18 years)
Impacts on the well-being of defence families and well-being
Group music making can develop resilience
General feedback for this module
What is a strengths-based approach?
Why do we need to identify strengths and use a strengths-based approach?
Characteristics of strong families
Identifying children's strengths and your own strengths
Practical ways to work with children's strengths
Understanding risk and resilience in defence families
Resilience in defence families
How can educators build tolerance, empathy and respect in our children? Here are five practical tips for educators to create a better world one child at a time.
Cooking with young children
Woodwork with young children
Belonging, Being & Becoming: The early years learning framework for Australia
Strength-based approach: A guide to writing Transition Learning and Development Statements
How having conversations with children builds their language — and strengthens family connections
How fathers can positively influence children’s mental health through play
Thinking and learning strengths in children with autism spectrum disorder (3-8 years)
Embracing your autistic child's strengths
Praise, encouragement and rewards (1-18 years)
Positive attention and your child (1-11 years)
Encouraging positive behaviour (1-8 years)
Be you. A resource to support early learning educators
General Feedback for this Module
Developing a shared language with your child
Activities to help your child learn and understand words about time and relocation
Activities to help your child learn and understand words about work and leave
Developing a shared language and family routines with your child
Activities to help your child learn and understand words about time and relocation
Activities to help your child learn and understand words about leave and work
Improving children's memory, vocabulary and understanding through the creative arts
Parent's discussions, community and media news
From FIFO to Defence, if you work away, here's how to support your children
Remote Worker Families - Tips for Dads
The power of narratives
What are family narratives and what do they look like?
Creating a family narrative before the parent goes away
Supporting the narrative when the parent is away
Communicating the 'why' to children
How to support children whose parent works away for long periods
Communicating well with children (Birth-12 years)
Language development (Birth to 8 years)
Language learning (1-2 years)
Language learning (2-3 years)
Language learning (3-4 years)
Language delay (5-8 years)
Language development in autistic children (Birth-8 years)
Active listening with Pre-teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19 years)
Listening to and negotiating with Pre-teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19 years)
How to spot the signs of bullying (school aged children)
School aged bullying
Non-verbal communication (2-8 years)
Dress-up games (3-6 years)
Puppet play: How it helps child development (2-8 years)
Puppet play and emotions (3-6 years)
Making simple puppets (Birth - 8 years)
Imagining, creating and play (toddlers)
Simple homemade stories to help your toddler through life transitions
Imagining, creating and play (5-8 years)
General feedback for the module
Why should we listen to children's voices?
A framework for listening to children's voices
How do we listen to children's voices using the creative arts?
How to listen to children through interests and chats
Empowering children through the creative arts: Is it possible to access the voice of 2-5 year olds?
Non-verbal communication (2-8 years)
Dress-up games (3-6 years)
Puppet play: How it helps child development (2-8 years)
Puppet play and emotions (3-6 years)
Making simple puppets (Birth - 8 years)
Imagining, creating and play (toddlers)
Imagining, creating and play (preschoolers)
Imagining, creating and play (5-8 years)
Active listening with Pre-Teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19) years
Listening to and negotiating with Pre-Teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19) years
General Feeback for this Module
First Responder families: Work and family life
Preparation before the parent goes away for work
Supporting children's understanding when the parent is away or at work
What can be done when it is not working?
Preparing for reunions and reintegrations (after the parent has returned home)
A reunion at the airport with a young child
FIFO families: Tips for building children's understanding and staying connected
Songs, rhymes and finger-plays
Language development (Birth to 8 years)
Language learning (1-2 years)
Language learning (2-3 years)
Language learning (3-4 years)
Language learning (5-8 years)
Language delay (1-8 years)
Language development in autistic children (Birth-8 years)
Discussing tough topics with children (3-8 years)
Talking about death with children (3-8 years)
General feedback for this module
Establishing a shared language with parents
Increasing understanding and vocabulary
Challenging conversations
Rituals
Songs, rhymes and finger-plays
Language development (Birth to 8 years)
Language learning (1-2 years)
Language learning (2-3 years)
Language learning (3-4 years)
Language learning (5-8 years)
Language delay (1-8 years)
Language development in autistic children (Birth-8 years)
Discussing tough topics with children (3-8 years)
Talking about death with children (3-8 years)
General feedback for this module
Children's emotional, physical and cognitive responses to parents' shift work and on-call duties
Children's possible physical, emotional and cognitive responses to a parent working away
Communication
Building children's understanding (for 2-8 years)
Before a parent leaves to work away from home
Support during the parent's absence from home
Reunions
Reintegration (after the reunion)
Template table for parents
3. Tracing hands activity
‘It’s not fair!’ Children and teenagers grumble and complain for a reason, here’s how to handle it
You can't be happy all the time
Dots with Feelings
Emerging Minds
Bluey Cartoon: Parents working away
How to talk to your child's teacher when there is a problem
Conversation starters with teachers (for primary school aged children)
General feedback about this module
Benefits to partnering with families
Barriers to partnering with families
Strategies to partnering with families
Educator resource: Effective partnerships with families who have a parent who works away (pp.7-10)
Educators using their strengths, skills and time to support defence families
Family centred approaches
Communicating with parents
Involving parents in school
Parent partnerships - does compliance influence your practice?
How to talk to your child's teacher when there is a problem
Conversation starters with teachers (for primary school aged children)
General feedback for this module
Social responses
How to Support Children with Social Responses
Diagram showing potential effects of grief and loss during long parental absences
Challenges for at-home parents, feelings of guilt
Understanding how change affects adults and children
Managing household transitions
Recognising and validating the impact of change
Media and social media
Using narratives to support changes
Using mindmaps to support your child with change
Practical tips for relocations from a veteran partner
Links between protective factors, resilience, well-being and learning
Transitions at home template
Transitions at home template
Special needs support for partners and children (Defence Member and Family Support DMFS)
Changing routines: Autistic children and teenagers (3-18 years)
Resources about social and emotional regulation using Bluey cartoons
Radio interview (34 mins): Do you have an anxious child
Article: Executive functioning is much harder for children from chaotic households
Article: Support with family narratives
Article: How to support children when a parent works away
Household chores for children: Ages 2-18
Family rules: 3-18 years
Creative learning through the arts: 1-3 years
Creative learning through the arts: 3-5 years
Natural play resources for creativity: Birth-8 years
Creative activities for preschoolers: 3-5 years
Outdoor play: Birth-8 years
Children with autism spectrum disorder develop social attention differently
General feedback about this module
Activities to do with children before their parents go away
Activities to do during the parent's absence
Activities to do with children leading up to the reunion and during reintegration
Benefits and Challenges of Social Media
Playing with clay
Article: Support with family narratives
Article: How to support children when a parent works away
Household chores for children: Ages 2-18
Family rules: 3-18 years
Creative learning through the arts: 1-3 years
Creative learning through the arts: 3-5 years
Natural play resources for creativity: Birth-8 years
Creative activities for preschoolers: 3-5 years
Outdoor play: Birth-8 years
General feedback for this module
Ways to promote wellbeing
Mental health – how it can be affected by military family life
Moral implications and 'fitting in'
Instability and lack of control
Maintaining relationships with social media and emails
Support: Importance and types
Community groups and support
Social media supports
Rituals
PDF Creating Balance within a FIFO family
PDF Creating Financial Health (Budgeting and Tax Tips within a Remote Worker family)
Website: FIFO Support for families in Brisbane
Blog: Wellbeing tips for Remote Working families
WA Government: Information for Remote Worker families - Mentally Health Workplaces
Experiences of a military spouse
Military Life Podcast 91
Domains of Self-Care for parents
Recommended children's book: What will I see on Anzac Day?
Communicating well with babies and children (Birth to 12 years)
Podcast: The ladder out of depression with psychiatrist Ian Hickie
Building positive family relationships
General feedback about the module
The power of narratives
What are family narratives and what do they look like?
Supporting family narratives before the parent goes away
Supporting family narratives when the parent is away
How to support children whose parent works away for long periods
Froebels principles and practice
Effective communication with parents
Communicating well with babies and children (Birth to 12 years)
Building positive family relationships
General Feedback for this Module
The challenges of parenting in service and remote working families
The challenges of parenting in military families
Parenting agreements (before parents leave to work away for a long period of time)
Items for parents to discuss template
Tips for communicating when you are apart
Sharing and not sharing
Resilient Families Magazine
Benefits and Challenges of Social Media
Article: 11 things I learnt as a Remote Worker Mum
Article: 5 tips for Remote Worker families
10 relationship tips when a partner works away
Long distance communication with your children
Challenges of Families with a Parent Working Away from Home Base
Parenting when your partner works away
Dealing with life when your spouse works away
Diagram: Domains of self-care for parents
Reading (9 mins): Tips for building resilience
Reading (3 mins): Building resilience in children
Reading (5 mins): Changing routines: Autistic children and teenagers (3-18 years)
Group music making can develop resilience
General feedback for the module
Introduction: Managing household transitions
Understanding how change affects adults and children
Using mindmaps to support children with change
Support for partners and children with special needs (Defence Member and Family Support DMFS, formerly DCO)
Article: Executive functioning is much harder for children from chaotic households
Fostering protective factors in families
Diagram: Protective factors in families
Diagram: Protective factors in families and communities
Plugging into protective factors in defence families
Links between protective factors, resilience, wellbeing and learning
Video (2.5 mins): What is resilience
Video (2 mins): How to build resilience
Diagrams: Resilience Practice Framework
Resilient Defence Families
The important role of educators with children from defence families
Block play
Sharing information with educators
Diagram: Domains of self-care for parents
Reading (9 mins): Tips for building resilience
Reading (3 mins): Building resilience in children
Reading (5 mins): Changing routines: Autistic children and teenagers (3-18 years)
Group music making can develop resilience
Explaining injuries to children
Spotting the changes and seeking support
Fostering children's understanding
Explaining mental health issues with your child
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Coping with the initial news of an injury
Changes in identity
Communicating with your spouse
Animation: Understanding PTSD and how it can be passed on to other family members
9 tips for recovery from childhood trauma: A lived experience perspective.
Pictorial article: Coping with traumatic news
Recognising and understanding Post Traumatic Embitterment Disorder
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Practical activities and supports
Personnel experiencing trauma
Injured or ill ADF members (Defence Members and Family Support: DMFS)
Encouraging a loved one to get help (Defence Member and Family Support: DMFS, formerly DCO)
Establishing new family routines
Support services, and a story from a Legatee involved with Legacy
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Tapping into your family's protective factors
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Personal story: How my life has been impacted by my Dad's service injuries
Personal story: How a child coped with her father's severe war injuries at different stages of her life
Military Wifelife Podcast Episodes 93 and 94
Interview: Tips for recovering from a traumatic childhood due to a parent's military service
Interview: How a father brought home the Vietnam War
Personal story: How untreated service-related mental health conditions can affect relationships between parents
Personal story: How untreated service-related mental health problems can affect parenting
Personal story: How untreated PTSD can affect children differently
Book Recommendation: Enemy: A daughter's story of how her father brought the Vietnam War home
Suicide prevention resources
Parenting and problematic alcohol and other drug use
Podcast: Growing up with a parent who experiences mental health difficulties
Staying connected to your kids while experiencing mental health difficulties
Coping with traumatic news - an illustrated guide
Parenting with a physical disability
Looking after yourself
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
Conflict management for parents
You can't be happy all the time
Abuse, Violence, Trauma and Grief (Birth to 18 years)
How preschoolers can learn to communicate signs of stress
How to talk to young children about mental health
Talking about mental illness with your child
Talking about parental mental health issues with a primary school aged child
Dots with Feelings
Good mental health for children (3-8 years)
UK Video: Primary school aged animation video to start conversations about mental health
Canadian video: You are not your thoughts
General feedback about the module or storybook
Planning short and long term support strategies
What happens during a relationship breakdown (separation and divorce)?
Risk and protective factors, pain, guilt and abuse
Moving forward
Are you and your partner thinking of separating? Here's how to protect children's mental health
You've lost that loving feeling (Defence Families Australia blog)
Breakdown of relationship support group (DEFGLIS)
Self-care practical activities
Grief, loss and change
Fostering children's understanding
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Tapping into your family's protective factors
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Support services
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
Pictorial article: Coping with traumatic news
Video: Which Long-term Relationships Will Survive and Which Won't
Why We Need to Take It Slowly in Love
Healthy partner and parent relationships
Conflict management for parents
Non-verbal communication matters
Building positive family relationships
Video: How separation and divorce can impact children and parents
Parenting after separation or divorce
Helping children adjust after separation and divorce
Helping chidlren adjust to two homes
Single parents and positive single parenting
Divorce and the law
Video: Single parenting
Co-parenting - getting the right balance
Coparenting with your ex - Military Life (US based)
You can't be happy all the time
General feedback about this module
Types of addictions, reasons people become addicted
Signs of addictions, stress and addiction
Culture and addictions, family challenges and supports
Defence Families: Alcohol use
Parent's alcohol and drug use
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
Self-care practical activities
Grief, loss and change
Fostering children's understanding
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Tapping into your family's protective factors
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Support services
You can't be happy all the time
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
General feedback about this module
Abuse in families, including family violence
Parent helplines and hotlines
Links to community supports for partner abuse
Domestic family violence
Article: Coercive control puts children at risk of mental illness later in life
Child maltreatment (including abuse and neglect)
Helplines and services for child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse - general information
When you feel you might hurt your child
Statistics of child sexual abuse
Perpetrators and grooming
Disclosure
Consequences and support programs
Defence Family and Domestic Violence Strategy
Domestic violence (Defence Families Australia)
Links to Defence supports
Military Wifelife Podcast Episode 51 about domestic violence
Personal boundaries activity for 3-15 year olds
Preventing child sexual abuse in our communities
Preventing voilence: Teaching children respect for women
Reasons why victim survivors don't report
Recognising financial abuse and what to do about it
Helping someone out of an abusive relationship
Signs of a perpertrator
What to do if a child is abused?
Child sexual abuse: What is it and what to do (Birth to 18 years)
Supporting a child who has been abused
Signs of grooming
Sexual abuse: Talking to children
Signs of sexual abuse in children and teenagers
Self-care practical activities
Grief, loss and change
Fostering children's understanding
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Tapping into your family's protective factors
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Support services
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
General feedback about this module
Dealing with the news and the initial stage
What happens in Defence families when a service member dies?
Talking to children, family and friends about the death
Communicating with your child's educators
Exposure to suicide
The funeral
Rebuilding and moving forward
Links to services and resources
Resilient Families Magazine
Stories from those involved with Legacy (defence specific)
3. Animation - 'The Grand Wolf' - a video about grief
When somebody dies (3-8 years)
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
Pictorial article: Coping with traumatic news
Self-care practical activities
Grief, loss and change
Fostering children's understanding
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Tapping into your family's protective factors
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Support services
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
You can't be happy all the time
Dots with Feelings
Website: Everymind - Understanding mental health, mental ill-health and suicide
Article: Have we been trying to prevent suicides wrongly all this time?
Article: How to ask someone you're worried about if they're thinking of suicide
General feedback about this module or storybook
Video: What is trauma? (5 minutes)
How children and families experience trauma
Exposure to suicide
Childhood trauma and the brain (5 minutes)
Transfer of trauma within families
Three tips for emotional regulation (11 minutes)
Trauma and the nervous system (9 minutes)
Book review: A useful book about the impacts of trauma
Children's resources
When does mental distress become a mental illness?
The psychology of PTSD (5 minutes)
12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD (2 minutes)
12 signs of complex PTSD (8 minutes)
Trauma support for children
Triggers - how they work and how to reduce their effects (7 minutes)
How to overcome trauma (5 minutes)
Hypervigilance and how to overcome it (5 minutes)
How the brain adapts to adversity (8 minutes)
Support services and community organisatons
Animation: Getting yourself right before you can support others (4 minutes)
Webinar: Trauma informed parenting practices (18 minutes)
Practical tips for handling 'fight, flight or freeze' moments with your child
Recognising the symptoms of trauma (3 minutes)
Explainer animation using a hand model about amygdala for children (2 minutes)
Animation: Helping children see the positives in their lives (4 minutes)
The Resilience Project
Teenage and youth mental health resource (for those with a parent with a service related mental health issue)
Free resources: Supporting children through natural disasters and climate emergencies
The link between poor mental health, depression, anxiety and diet
Trauma: Coping and looking after yourself
How Trauma Impacts Your Physical Health & How To Heal From It with Dr Bessel van der Kolk
Traumatic events: first response to help children and teenagers
Toddlers: Coping with trauma
Preschoolers: Coping with trauma
PTSD in children
TEDTalk: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime (16 minutes)
General feedback about this module
And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story PDF
Audio read-along version of Ben's story: And so things have been a bit different (read-along with page-turn notification)
Video read-along version of 'And so things have been a bit different'
Learn to say 'hello' in Sinhala (aubowan)
Learn to say 'see you later in Sinhala (gihilla ennaung)
Make time for music - the glockenspiel used in this read-along recording
Mapping activity - Ben's Story
Educational Activities - And so, things have been a bit different
Digitised 'And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story'
General feedback about this module or storybook
In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story
Learn to say 'hello' in Shona (mhoroyi)
Learn to say 'goodbye' in Shona (sarayi zvakanaka)
Audio read-along version of 'In sickness and in health'
Learn to say 'hello' in Mandarin (你好 nǐ hǎo)
Learn to say 'goodbye' in Mandarin (再见 再见 zàijiàn)
Video read-along version of 'In sickness and in health: Sam's story'
SOMEYAH Video read-along version of 'In sickness and in health: Sam's story' (copy)
Learn to say 'hello' in Farsi (salam)
Learn to say 'goodbye' in Farsi (khoda hafez)
Time for music - bells used in this audio read-along
Mapping activity - Sam's Story
Interactive version of 'In Sickness and in Health: Sam's story'
General feedback about this module
Read-along video of In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story
Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's story
Audio read-along version of 'Nathan's Story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS'
Video read-along 'Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's story'
How to say 'hello' in Māori (kia ora koutou)
How to say 'goodbye' in Māori (haere rā)
Make time for music - drums (used for the page turns in the recording)
Mapping Activity - Nathan's Story
Educational Activities - Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD
Interactive 'Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's story'
General feedback about this module
Video read-along version of 'Liam's story: So why do I wear Dad's medals?' (younger version)
Video read-along version of 'Liam's story: So why do I wear Dad's medals' (full version)
Audio read-along version of 'So why do I wear Dad's medals' (younger version)
Audio read-along version of 'So why do I wear my Dad's medals?' (full version)
Learn to say 'how are you?' in Cantonese (你好嗎)
Learn to say 'goodbye' in Cantonese (再見)
Make time for music - the Mbira (used for page turns in the recording)
Mapping Activity - Liam's Story
General feedback about this module or or storybook
Dad's Moral Injury Cloud: Lara's Story PDF
eBook: Dad's Moral Injury Cloud: Lara's Story
Audio read-along version (UK female reader)
Audio read-along version (Canadian accent)
Personalised copy of Dad's Moral Injury Cloud
Personalised copy of Mum's Moral Injury Cloud
Learn more about moral injury here
General feedback about this module or resource
Dad's Moral Injury Cloud - Lara's Story PDF copy
What is a moral injury?
What causes moral injury?
Recognising and understanding moral injury
Who can experience moral injury? Is it a trauma response?
Symptoms of moral injury
Impacts on families
Impacts on children
Things to be aware of in supporting someone with moral injury
Support for children
Moral injury, family impacts and moral growth
3MDR treatment at HiMARC
Reference List (for the original material in this module)
Links to support services
The management of moral injury: Restore and rebuild treatment
Moral Injury Project Website
Moral injury in workplaces
Steps to address moral injury
Research-based media article: The impacts of moral injury on First Responder, Defence and Veteran partners and children
The Moral Injury Guide for (first responder) Public Safety Personnel and Leaders
Department of Veterans' Affairs recommended interventions
Open Arms - Moral Injury signs and symptoms
A war reporter's experience of moral injury
ABC Radio National The Minefield Podcast - War crimes, moral responsibility, and moral injury
ABC Wounds of the soul: Moral injury and the hatefulness of war
ABC Modern soldiers can kill a target on computer, then head home for dinner — and it's giving them 'moral injury'
Planning for a pet as a military family
General Feedback for this module or storybook
Using a strengths-based approach to maintain routines
Managing household transitions
Recognising and validating the impact of change
Media and social media
Building Children's Understanding
Using narratives to support changes
Using mindmaps to support your child with change
Practical tips for relocations from a veteran partner
Links between protective factors, resilience, well-being and learning
How to prepare your child for a big move
Relocation Template
Podcast: What do frequent relocations mean for children
General Feedback for this module or storybook
Financial, service organisation and community supports
Family and service pride
Opportunities and confidence
Family narratives, communication and storytelling
References
Anonymous feedback about this module or storybook
Juggling multiple changes, including identity
Imagining life beyond the services - weighing up the pros and cons
Template for discussions - Pros, cons, plans and strategies for leaving
The challenges of leaving the service
Template for discussions - Pros, cons, plans and strategies for leaving (copy)
Identity
Identity: A child's place in the world
Mental health
Special challenges for children when things go wrong
The 'invisibility' of children of veterans
Using your child's strengths to help children develop skills and interests
Practical ways to work with children's strengths
Discover children's strengths and your strengths (downloadable zip file PDF documents)
Plugging into protective factors in defence families
Resilient Families Magazine featuring a story about a family who transitioned to civilian life
What I wish I had have known before I transitioned
Veteran Conversations
Veterans transition into study and new career pathways
Well-being Research Finds Majority of Ex-Service Families are Doing Well
Children's storybook and accompanying resources: Max's Big Move (by Forces Children Scotland)
Exploring the available supports
The Certainty Myth
DCN Crisis Support Resources Map
Inquiry into transition from the Australian Defence Force (ADF)(2019)
General feedback for this module
The difference between wellbeing and mental health
Check your mental health - and your child's (Beyond Blue)
Teenage and youth mental health resource kit
Parent-child interaction therapy
Play Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Filial Therapy
Partners in Parenting (Headspace 12-25 year olds)
Open Arms (for Defence and veteran families)
Fortem Australia (for First Responder families)
Military Emergency Services Health Australia (MESHA)
Kids Helpline (parent information)
Kids Helpline webchat counselling
Kids helpline for children
Kids Helpline teenagers (13-17 years)
Kids Helpline young people (18-25 years)
Headspace (13-25 year olds)
Lifeline
General Feedback for this module or storybook
What is complex-PTSD and what causes it?
The difference between PTSD and complex-PTSD
How many people have complex-PTSD, and what role does gender play?
What are the causes of complex-PTSD?
Australian Government's health advice and links to support
When should someone see their doctor?
Treatments
Post traumatic growth
How can a parent's complex-PTSD affect children, teengagers and adult children?
Links to support services
Link to complex-PTSD children's bibliotherapy storybook resource
Anonymous feedback about this module or storybook
Learning about Complex-PTSD at Pet Therapy School: Noah's Story (PDF version)
Audio read-along - UK child readers Noah and Beatrice
Audio read-along - Canadian adult reader
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Audio read-along - UK child readers Noah and Beatrice ►