#108 – Kirrilie Smout on Mental Health Treatment For Children
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In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Kirrilie Smout about the common elements of mental health treatment planning for children and adults.
Kirrilie has worked as a clinical child and adolescent psychologist for the last 25 years in private, government and community settings. She has provided therapy to approximately 5000 children, teens and families, supervised over 50 child and adolescent psychologists, and presented seminars to more than 50,000 students, parents and teachers in schools around Australia.
She is the director of Developing Minds, a group of 20 child and adolescent psychologists, has authored 3 books about young people and provides consultation to national media, education and health organisations. Kirrilie has won national awards for her speaking work and Developing Minds recently won first prize in the “Australian Pediatric Health Practice of Excellence” awards.
Kirrilie’s challenges are supporting psychologists to work with families, building their online child therapy program and trying to beat gifted 4 year old clients at Connect 4!!!
Links:
Developing Minds (website)
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