Engagement and assessment: Laying the foundation for focused psychological strategies for children (5-12 years)
Webinar 8 May, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (AEST)
Presented by RACGP Specific Interests and Emerging Minds, this webinar will support participants to consider several skills in engagement and assessment with children and their families. It focuses on engaging with parents to explore their values and contextualise the concerns they have about their children’s wellbeing. Exploring why these skills with parents are vital in working with children.
In addition, the webinar will cover initial engagement skills for working directly with children including exploring children’s own values and how a whole child approach can be applied to existing assessment processes to gain the most holistic picture of the child’s presenting concerns.
Learning outcomes
- Outline ways to help parents identify and articulate their parenting values
- Describe ways to support parents understand problems within the broader context of children’s lives
- Discuss engagement skills for initial contact with children
- Adapt existing assessment processes to capture the child’s values, strengths and concerns
Educational Activities
1.5
hours
This event is part of Emerging Minds webinar series 2025. Events in this series are:
Host
Dr Tim Jones
Chair, RACGP Specific Interests Child and Young Person's Health
Dr Tim Jones is a GP with an interest in child and infant health. He is passionate about supporting parents and families in a holistic manner. His clinical areas of interest include infant feeding and settling support, primary care led childhood learning and behavioural assistance, and eating disorder management. Tim works at Glebe Hill Family Practice Hobart, as a senior medical educator with the RACGP and provides developmental and behavioural services for the Tasmanian Health Service.
Speaker
Dr Michaela Baulderstone
FRACGP
Dr Baulderstone is a General Practitioner with special interests in mental health, developmental disability, child health and medical education. She has undertaken targeted training in child development and behaviour, and parenting counselling. She provides special clinics for child emotional and behavioral concerns, paediatric sleep and continence issues, and developmental disability. Dr Baulderstone also provides a psychological medicine service and is a FPS Provider (Interpersonal Therapy). She has worked with Emerging Minds developing RACGP accredited training modules in child mental health since 2018.