Developing Minds Psychology and Education

25/10/2025

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Around 10% to 15% of young people experience difficulties with aggression, impulsivity, following instructions and other challenging or disruptive behaviors – well beyond what the average child or young person of their same age experiences.  What this looks like in their daily life varies c

24/10/2025

23/10/2025

https://developingminds.net.au/blog/2023/2/13/therapy-self-help-or-online-therapeutic-programs-for-childrenteens-with-mental-emotional-or-social-health-challenges-what-happens-outside-the-sessionprogram-is-what-matters-most

Many children and teens with mental, emotional, or social health challenges are engaged in some kind of therapeutic program – this might be a course of one-to-one therapy, a group program, online learning programs, or even self-help books or workbooks. There are thousands of different therapeutic ...

21/10/2025

📣📣Can you help tell this story?
We’ve been contacted by a journalist interested in covering our Fix Medicare for Child Mental Health campaign. They’d like to speak with a parent of a child under 12 who has experienced the challenges of the current Medicare rules which limit ‘parent-only’ sessions with their child’s psychologist to just **two per year** (meaning that Medicare doesn’t fund or allow parent-directed therapy — even though it’s often the most effective way to improve a young child’s mental health).
If you are a parent who:
✨Have a child under 12, and
✨Have been affected by these limits of 2 per year (i.e. can't get enough help to know how to support your child, can't talk to your child's psychologist about sensitive topics without your child listening in)
✨Would be willing to share your experience publicly in a news story…
…we would love to hear from you.
‼Important‼: Sharing your story is completely voluntary of course - and if you are a current or past client of our service, your decision will have no impact on your care, your relationship with our team, or access to our services.
If you are willing to do this - please email 📩kirriliesmout@developingminds.net.au with the subject line Media Story - and remember only do so if you are completely comfortable .
And if you'd like to learn more about the campaign then you can go to

Medicare's Better Access scheme allows Australian children with mental health challenges 10 rebateable mental health treatment sessions per calendar year when referred by their GP.  However, for all but 2 of these sessions, Medicare rules dictate that the child must be present in the room and recei...

20/10/2025

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Children and teens (like adults) often report thoughts and beliefs which they find distressing (for example: “I’m horrible”; “people think I’m boring”; picturing themselves doing badly on a test). There are different ways parents/caregivers might help their child/teen cope with these.&nb...

18/10/2025

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A psychologist named Peter Lewinsohn back in the 70’s wrote an article which suggested that (at least part) of the reason people feel depressed is because a) they don’t have as many potentially rewarding activities in their lives compared to others, and b) that they don’t find the activities a...

15/10/2025

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One of the most important ways therapists help children with anxiety symptoms is a technique called “exposure”. This article provides a brief introduction to exposure and how therapists might use it with kids who experience anxiety. Exposure is defined as a “controlled therapeutic technique wh...

13/10/2025

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It might seem obvious to most of us as parents/caregivers today that acting in a warm, loving, caring and interested ways towards our children is important – however it has actually only been in the last 50 or 60 years that this idea has been discussed and studied by researchers interested in chil...