About this webinar

Whether you work with children, adults or families, it’s important for all practitioners and service providers to consider the safety and wellbeing of children. However, in adult-facing services, practitioners may not always ask clients who are parents about the experiences of their children. Supervisors working with practitioners can ensure that children’s wellbeing is central to practice through safe, analytical and reflective conversations.

Asking a child-focused question of an adult client can be difficult, but this first question is a crucial first step for the child to access the help they need for mental health concerns, trauma, violence or family hardship. Supervisors can empower practitioners to have effective conversations with adult clients and in so doing have a positive impact on children’s physical, social and developmental worlds.    

This webinar held in collaboration with Emerging Minds will explore how supervision can improve practitioners’ ability to support children and implement child-aware practices.

This webinar will help you:

• reflect on how supervision can influence child outcomes
• apply or seek out supervision strategies that promote child-aware approaches  
• consider how to include reflective practice as part of the supervisor-supervisee relationship  
• cultivate supervision practices as a partnership where both parties can learn, reflect and develop.

This webinar will be useful to supervising practitioners and practitioners themselves who engage children, adults or families in case management, case work or therapy. Child-aware supervision practices are relevant to paediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, family and relationship counsellors, child mental health practitioners and specialist counsellors, as well as GPs, allied health professionals and child protection workers. 

We encourage you to test your system before the webinar, and read our Frequently Asked Questions. A recording of this presentation will be made available shortly after the broadcast.

This webinar was co-produced by CFCA and Emerging Minds in a series focusing on children’s mental health. They are working together as part of the Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program.