What to know about kids mental health

All In The Mind

ABC

Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Developmental paediatrician Dr Billy Garvey has seen a lot of kids with behavioural issue over the years, and there are ten things he wishes all parents understood about their kids mental health.

From insecure attachment to separation anxiety to emotional difficulties – he gives us the low down on why kids get labelled ‘bad’ – and what’s really going on (usually).

You can catch up on more episodes of the All in the Mind podcast with journalist and presenter Sana Qadar, exploring the psychology of topics like stress, memory, communication and relationships on the ABC Listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.

This episode first aired in February 2025.

Guest:

Dr Billy GarveyDevelopmental paediatricianAuthor, Ten things I wish you knew about your child's mental healthPodcast co-host, Pop Culture ParentingFounder, Guiding Growing Minds

Credits:

Presenter/producer: Sana Qadar
Senior producer: James Bullen
Producer: Rose Kerr
Sound engineer: John Jacobs

Transcript

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0:37.7	Growing up, Billy Garvey was what you might have called a bad kid.
0:43.4	But that would be careless because if you paid attention, you would see what he really was,
0:49.9	was a struggling kid.
0:52.7	My story is essentially that I was brought up by a single mum in one of Australia's
0:58.6	most disadvantaged communities. That would be Frankston in Melbourne's southeast.
1:03.0	She worked three jobs as a waitress. She had her own mental health struggles. She found it
1:08.2	really hard with three boys. So we'd often have the power cut off or not
1:12.5	have food in the house and things like that. But she just worked a lot to try and make up for that.
1:17.9	Against that backdrop, Billy says he was a pretty angry teenager. He was angry at the world.
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