Emotions & Behaviour

Our topics on issues relating to the emotional health of children and young people, and common behaviour problems...

Topics

• A new baby - feeling sad (see: Aboriginal - a new baby)
• Aboriginal - a new baby
• Aboriginal - child abuse and neglect
• Aboriginal - kids grieve too
• Aboriginal - loving and laughing
• Abuse of parents
• Abuse, emotional (see: Yelling)
• ADD and ADHD - how to manage them
• ADD and ADHD - what are they?
• Adolescence - when times get tough
• After the breakup (see: Parenting arrangements after separation)
• Aggro adolescents (see: Abuse of parents)
• Anger (see: Feeling angry)
• Anger - helping your child to manage it
• Anorexia Nervosa (see: Eating disorders)
• Asperger syndrome
• Attention Deficit Disorder (see: ADD and ADHD - what are they?)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (see: ADD and ADHD - what are they?)
• Autism
• Bad language (see: Swearing)
• Behaviour management (see: Discipline - what is discipline?)
• Biting (see: Children biting)
• Body image
• Breath holding
• Bulimia Nervosa (see: Eating disorders)
• Bullying
• Bushfires and children
• Child abuse
• Children and separation (see: Family break-up)
• Children biting
• Children in hospital
• Children's grief (see: Grief and loss)
• Children's mental health
• Chronic Constipation in Childhood (see: Soiling)
• Comforters (see: Dummies, thumbs and other comforters)
• Conduct disorders
• Crisis (see: Dealing with a crisis)
• Crying baby
• Dealing with a crisis
• Depression in adolescence (see: Young people, feelings and depression)
• Depression in children
• Depression, post natal (see: Post natal depression)
• Discipline (teens)
• Discipline - what is discipline?
• Discipline for toddlers (see: Toddlers - tips for toddler troubles)
• Divorce (see: Family break-up)
• Divorce and children (see: Parenting arrangements after separation)
• Drink spiking
• Drugs and teenagers (see: Young people and illegal drugs)
• Dummies, thumbs and other comforters
• Eating disorders
• Emotional abuse (see: Yelling)
• Encopresis (see: Soiling)
• Exam stress (see: Stress and exams)
• Family break-up
• Family squabbles (see: Sibling rivalry)
• Fears - young children
• Fears and phobias - older children and teenagers
• Feeling angry
• Gifted and talented children
• Grief and loss
• Grief and loss - easy to read (see: Kids grieve too - easy to read)
• Habits
• Head banging and rocking
• Helping your children after a suicide
• Hospital - children in hospital (see: Children in hospital)
• Hospital - your baby in hospital
• Intercountry adoption - emotional health
• Kids grieve too - easy to read
• Lies and fibs
• Limits that stick (see: Discipline (teens))
• Lying (see: Lies and fibs)
• Mental illness (see: Schizophrenia)
• Nail biting
• Night terrors
• Nightmares
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Optimism
• Overseas adoptions (see: Intercountry adoption - emotional health)
• Pacifiers (see: Dummies, thumbs and other comforters)
• Parenting arrangements after separation
• Peer pressure
• Post natal depression
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Psychosis (see: Schizophrenia)
• Puerperal Disorders (see: Post natal depression)
• Quarrelling (see: Sibling rivalry)
• Rape
• Running away
• Schizophrenia
• School refusal and truancy
• School suspension, exclusion or expulsion
• Second baby
• Self-esteem for children
• Self-esteem for teens
• Self-harm
• Separation anxiety
• Sexual assault (see: Rape)
• Sexual assault and drugs (see: Drink spiking)
• Shyness
• Sibling rivalry
• Sleep - 3 to 6 months
• Sleep - 3 years to 5 years
• Sleep - 6 months to 3 years Updated
• Sleep - birth to 3 months
• Sleep in early childhood
• Sleep Problems (see: Nightmares)
• Sleep terrors (see: Night terrors)
• Sleep walking and sleep talking
• Soiling
• Spiked drinks (see: Drink spiking)
• Splitting up (see: Family break-up)
• Stealing
• Stress and exams
• Suicidal Risk in Adolescence (see: Young people, feelings and depression)
• Suicide (see: Helping your children after a suicide)
• Swearing
• Tantrums
• Teenagers - living with them (see: Adolescence - when times get tough)
• Teeth grinding
• The Nanny Show and you (see: The Super-nanny Show and you)
• The Super-nanny Show and you
• Thinking separation
• Toddlers - tips for toddler troubles
• Truancy (see: School refusal and truancy)
• Unsettled Baby (see: Crying baby)
• War and children
• When there is a tragedy
• WildFires (see: Bushfires and children)
• Wind in babies
• Yelling
• Young people and illegal drugs
• Young people, feelings and depression
• Your baby in hospital (see: Hospital - your baby in hospital)