In this episode:

• Emotional intelligence is important and being able to verbalise
• Over 68% of Australians have experienced some sort of childhood maltreatment which has led to at least one mental health outcome
• Normalise the conversation about moral injury
• Need to have compassion for ourselves and seek help to talk about it

Guest: Dr Cher McGillivray, Clinical Psychologist

Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

Total time: 33 mins

Research projects:

• Seeking Parent Participants for a Moral Injury Study
  Bond University in collaboration with Bravehearts is proudly developing a new measure for therapists and researchers that will help validate the moral injury experienced by non-offending parents following exposure to their child experiencing childhood maltreatment.Research participants: If you are a non-offending parent and are able to complete this survey, your contribution will greatly help further understanding of how to help support the recovery of families affected by complex trauma | Bond University

• Parenting Beyond Trauma
  Bond University are collaborating with Bravehearts and running a free parenting program. If you are the parent of a child who has been abused, you are invited to connect with us and receive more information about this program. This 6-week program will be offered online and self-paced and centres on Integrated Compassion Focussed Trauma Treatment (for parents only). You will learn practical ways to recover that will benefit the recovery of both the parent and child.
  Register your interest here.