Dr Jenny Brown has a new book “Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Helplessness to Hope”.
This podcast explores a common tension between parents about how each responds to a struggling child. One parent reacts with more nurturing and the other with more firmness. Each feels critical about the other’s management of one of their children. Amber McPherson, Programs Coordinator at the Parent Hope Project interviews Dr Jenny Brown about parent-style tensions….
In this episode Jenny discusses with Dr Kathleen Smith the challenges and opportunities for parents managing fears and anxieties. What are the challenges of managing anxiety about our kids? What are the opportunities and benefits of parents working on managing their fears? Kathleen Smith is a licensed therapist and mental health writer who lives in Washington,…
In this episode, Jenny Brown will be in discussion with Lauren Errington sharing stories of working with parents who are worried about 1 or more of their children. Lauren is the Executive Director of the Family Systems Institute Sydney. She also lectures at Charles Sturt University and has a clinical practice at the Family Systems…
Levels of diagnosis for behavioural and learning difficulties are incredibly high, often with 50% of kids on specialised learning plans. How can schools keep up with this demand? Is the worry cycle contributing to this phenomenon in schools?
In this episode, Jenny Brown interviews renowned Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Annemaree Bickerton about her work supporting parents managing their child or adolescent’s strong, and often dangerous, emotions and behaviours. Listen to how parents can be a lighthouse for children in stormy times. They listen rather than fix and allow the child to learn…
In this podcast, Jenny Brown interviews Susy Lee, prize-winning author, speaker, and educator. They discuss Susy’s prize-winning book ‘Raising Kids Who Care: Practical Conversations for Exploring Stuff That Matters, Together’. Susy writes:‘In our complex world, we need to be aware of looming pitfalls and be intentional in helping kids navigate their way to compassion and…
What is the effect of parents representing themselves to their children instead of trying to fix or change their children? A parent’s connection is especially relevant when helping children navigate their screens. Parents can have regular, curious conversations with their children about what is safe and healthy online and what is dangerous and unhealthy.
A Manualized Process to Give Parents Hope; a review of the Parent Hope Project professional program by Dave Galloway, Living Systems Counselling Canada.
Parenting doesn’t end when a child leaves school. In fact, parenting can become even more complex with young adults, especially if they are struggling to manage adult responsibilities. In this podcast, Dr Jenny Brown talks about ways parents can be a resource to a young adult child who is navigating an increasingly complicated and demanding…
A parent asks: Hi, would you be prepared to share your view on the parent guilt I’m struggling with? It is so very hard for parents – mothers, in particular, not to feel burdened by guilt. How can the guilt be redirected to being a curious observer – to see there are things to discover that are in a parent’s control that can gradually make a difference?
In this podcast, Jenny Brown explores the challenges of parenting Special Needs children – neurodiverse kids or children with a biological impairment of some kind. She interviews Nicole Clarke, who is both a mother of a child with Autism and a school counsellor. It is helpful to consider if the same principles of working on…
