“COVID & KIDS” Q&A With Australia’s Leading Experts

Learning Team 24 Apr 2024

MoPA™ After Dark is an exciting series of adults-only seminars, classes, functions and events; curated to help parents and educators be the best leaders and mentors we can be. After Dark will see us host world-leading academics and practitioners from a number of fields relating to Early Learning and Social and Emotional Wellbeing.

Watch or listen to the entire seminar here:

Watch the amazing panel discuss the impact that COVID-19 is having on children and families. During the 90-min Q&A the experts explored many of the MoPA Community’s burning questions on how to promote resilience in our kids, ourselves, and our relationships.

Learn about how kids and families are coping during the coronavirus pandemic from the leader of CPAS, a huge Australian study investigating the week-by-week psychological impacts of the pandemic. Our panel of clinical psychologists specialise in child development, and will provide tools, strategies, and resources to promote wellbeing in our children during these uncertain times.

My baby has had very limited exposure to people during her first 12-months – What can/should we do to catch up her social skills?

Meet The Panel

Prof. Peter Enticott

Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience. Associate Head of School, School of Psychology.

Peter is a cognitive neuroscientist, registered psychologist, and Head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit in the School of Psychology at Deakin, Melbourne.

Peter’s work investigates social and emotional brain development in children. He also conducts neuroscience research into developmental disorders, such as autism.

Dr. Elizabeth Westrupp

Senior Lecturer & Clinical Psychologist

Elizabeth is a clinical psychologist, specialising in child and adolescent mental health. Her research focuses on understanding the way in which families and parenting practices shape children’s long term development, and trialing parenting support programs in the community.

Dr Westrupp is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University and co-leads Intervention and Translation Sciences in the Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development.

Assoc. Prof. Jade Sheen

Clinical Psychologist & Family Therapist

Jade is a Clinical Psychologist who has focused exclusively on the treatment of children and adolescents experiencing anxiety, eating difficulties and behavioural concerns, as well as families.

Jade completed her Doctorate in 2004, Masters of Clinical Family Therapy in 2010, and is registered and endorsed in both Clinical and Health Psychology, with the Psychology Board of Australia.

Dr. Hannah Bereznicki

Lecturer, Cognitive Neuroscience

This event was curated by Dr Hannah Bereznicki, Lecturer in Psychology at Deakin University. Hannah’s research in the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit focuses on the neuroscience of early development, alongside optimising robust, plasticity-inducing non-invasive brain stimulation protocols to improve patient outcomes.

Hannah is committed to the translation of psychological research and theory to community groups, and eagerly brings this session of MoPA: After Dark to parents, carers, and educators.

About “SEED”: Deakin University

Deakin Psychology’s Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) conducts world-leading research on social development, and its origins in early emotional life. SEED aims to promote emotional health, from pregnancy through to adulthood and into the next generation.

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