When it comes to mental health, what’s good for parents is good for children
When it comes to mental health, what’s good for parents is good for children
Parent mental health is an increasingly held topic of public conversation, but it’s fair to say that we have a way to go. Often, child and youth mental health are discussed in isolation – but we can’t talk about child mental health without talking about parent mental health. The two issues go hand in hand.
n Tuesday’s federal budget and over the past two years, we have seen major government commitments to the issue of child and youth mental health.
The 2019 budget committed $461 million for a youth mental health and suicide-prevention strategy, including expanding the Headspace network and funds for Indigenous suicide prevention. It also included funding for the parenting website raisingchildren.net.au to strengthen the mental health literacy of Australian parents.
This follows previous big-ticket investments in Emerging Minds – the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health and the BeYou initiative on mental health in education.
And what of parent mental health?...
