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Sep 2021
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RUOK? How to help children navigate the...

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About this episode

Today is RUOK Day.  We all know the impact the pandemic is having on our mental health.  Everyone is stressed and under pressure.  But what about our children.  Are the kids OK?

 

Dr Louise Williams is senior clinical psychologist at The Rosy Room in southeast Queensland.  Dr Louise joins us to help children navigate the pandemic.

 

Katrina and Antoinette ask about simple advice and pointers to provide support for the children and teenagers in our lives.  

 

On today’s Briefing, to mark RUOK Day, we find out how to help children navigate the pandemic.

 

TODAY'S HEADLINES

  • Regional restrictions to be eased in NSW and VIC
  • Plans in place to allow international travel from November
  • Commonwealth ignored approaches by Pfizer
  • Paris terror trials begin
  • Man charged over Australian woman’s death in Georgia

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