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Raising Good Humans

S3 Ep 18: Supporting Your Kid's Mental Health (While You're Waiting for an Appointment)

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Stuck in the seemingly never-ending cycle of waiting lists for mental health care appointments? How can you support your kid's mental health today?   Join me in conversation with Australia's foremost developmental pediatrician, Dr. Billy Garvey to discuss the essential steps caregivers can take to support their child's mental health. Throughout the episode, Billy offers practical advice on how parents can identify signs of distress in their children, create a safe and supportive environment at home, and encourage healthy coping mechanisms. He also walks through some fantastic examples of ideal caregivers in movies we all love.   Produced by Dear Media This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a DR Media Production.

0:07.0

Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and I'm here today talking with

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developmental pediatrician Dr. Billy Garvey, who's just awesome. He's a specialist at the

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biggest tertiary pediatric hospital and children's research institute in Australia.

0:26.0

And he's also really relatable and fun and a young dad himself. And he has a podcast

0:33.0

that is called Pop Culture Psychology, which you know is very fun for me. I thought he

0:38.5

would be such a fun guest to have for mental health month. He's one of Australia's top pediatricians

0:45.0

and I'm bringing him to you. If you enjoy this episode, don't hesitate to subscribe,

0:51.0

rate and write a little review. And also don't forget this month's new Raising Good

0:57.0

Humans Premium podcast on Apple podcasts. It's all about sleep. So if you're having

1:02.0

trouble getting your baby to sleep, getting your toddler out of your bed, or getting

1:06.0

your tween to go to bed, this is going to be a really good one for you. I'm here to

1:11.0

help. So I'm providing the science, the guidance, and I'm giving you lots of options

1:16.0

because there is never one right approach. I want to show people examples of some

1:26.0

of the movies that we all know. It would be fun to just help put in context like how

1:33.0

much we actually know about what serves children and what doesn't and what helps us

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as parents through the lens of these kind of fun pop culture movies and characters

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that we're so familiar with. I mean, you're in Australia and I'm in the United

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States and I'm certain that we're talking about the same ones.

1:58.0

Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, what we know is that the biggest influence on how

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we parent kids is how we were parented ourselves. So that's a, you know, we kind of

2:06.0

find ourselves and I've got it to your old daughter and I can sense that happening.

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