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SCHN MHID Hub

Click here to find out about the MHID Hub including forms.

Click here to find out about upcoming hub webinars or to access the recordings.

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Latest Journal

Click here for a copy of our latest Journal Edition. Volume 14, Issue 1, 2024.

 

School-Link E-list

Join our free e-list here to receive resources, primarily the CHW School-Link Journal, and from time to time other relevant material concerning the mental health of children and adolescents with an intellectual or developmental disability.

CHW School-Link Brochure

Download our latest CHW School-Link service brochure here: 

Guidelines on Pathways to Care

A guide for parents and carers: Guidelines on Pathways to Care for children and adolescents with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour and/or mental health problems.  

Excutive Summary

View the executive summary of the "Leading the Way in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability" needs analysis report here.

   

Behaviour Support in Schools

View the 2017 Obudsman Inquiry into behaviour management in schools. This report focuses on issues concerning students with complex needs and challenging behaviour. The report discusses the difficult challenges that schools face, but also draws attention to reasonable steps that can and should be taken to meet the learning and support needs of students, within a framework of best practice and evidence-based behaviour support.

 

 

Monday
Dec142020

CBT for Children with ASD webinar recording now available

We have now uploaded Phil Ray's MHID Hub Kids Webinar presentation:  

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Children with Autism

  • Context of CBT for autism 
  • Habilitation/Skills intervention – Pre CBT Therapy
  • CBT for children with autism 

Look here to view other webinar topics for mental health professionals or here for our school webinars

Monday
Dec142020

New edition of Journal

Our summer edition (volume 11 issue 2) of the Journal of Mental Health for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: An Educational Resource is now ready for your viewing. 

Inside this edition: 

  • Self-Injurious Behaviour: Challenging the cycle of distress! Multi-disciplinary, multimodal models of examining behaviour by Dr David Dossetor
  • Learning with Lili by Margaret Meaker
  • Transforming the mental health and disability interface for children and young people with complex needs through interdisciplinary education by Donna White, Lesley Whatson and David Dossetor
  • Book review: Exploring giftedness and autism, a study of differentiated educational program for autistic savants by David Dossetor for Trevor Clark
  • Naltrexone for the treatment of of self-injurious behaviour by Dr Vinita Bansal
  • The Medicine Cabinet: Gastrointestinal disorders and autism by Judy Longworth
Thursday
Oct012020

Join us for our next SCHN MHID Hub Clinical Webinar  

Topic:      How to adapt cognitive behaviour therapy for children and adolescents with autism
Presenter:    Phil Ray, Clinical Psychologist
Date:           Wednesday 4th November 2020, 11am-12pm
Thursday
Oct012020

New Introduction to Anxiety Webinar for Schools

We are excited to introduce a new webinar by Dr Kenneth Nunn, child psychiatrist from the Children's Hospital at Westmead. The webinar is an interview with Dr Nunn and focuses on anxiety in children and adolescents with an intellectual or developmental disability. 
 
This is a great conversation starter and could be used in a staff meeting, or as an introduction to anxiety. 
 

 

Monday
May042020

Share your ideas on transition back to school for children with ID/ASD

From week 3, children will be transitioning back to schools, if you have any tips for transition for children with intellectual or developmental disability, share your ideas and resources with each other by using the comments below. We look forward to reading your responses.