Children in Mind

04/06/2026

Please see this new online audio-visual presentation for psychotherapists. It’s about Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in the context of digital AI psychotherapy (using AI for life advice and mental health support). The talk is accredited by HPCSA for 3 Ethics CPD points. Contact [email protected] for more information.

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28/02/2026

This can be a useful and simple way to understand and respond to your own (and your children’s) emotions and behaviour. Thanks for sharing it Val Valentini 🌻

09/09/2025

Please register to join us at the South African Association for Infant Mental Health (ZA-AIMH) for this very interesting talk next Thursday evening.

11/04/2025

For online help with anything related to your child’s behaviour and emotions, please contact Christine Annandale. See her website for her contact details:

Clinical Psychologist / Kliniese Sielkundige

27/01/2025

Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) in children can be debilitating - and extremely difficult for parents to handle. For online help with this and other parenting challenges, feel free to email me at [email protected]. For more information about PDA, visit

Pathological demand avoidance or PDA autism is a pattern of behavior in which kids go to extremes to avoid anything they perceive as a demand.

20/12/2024

Please contact me if you are interested in attending these groups online. And please share with anyone you know who might like to be part of them 🌻

31/10/2024

To learn more about child psychology in clinical practice, see this CPD accredited online presentation.

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31/10/2024

Another reason for teenagers to avoid cannabis 🌻

A recent study in Montreal has suggested that cannabis use could lead to thinning of the cerebral cortex in adolescents – bad news at an age when the brain is maturing, said the scientists. Led by Graciela Pineyro and Tomas Paus, researchers at CHU Sainte-Justine and professors at the Universi...

10/10/2024

Sometimes an infection can be the cause of a child’s anxiety-type symptoms. PANDA or PANS are conditions that are increasingly being recognized as highly relevant when trying to understand an acute onset of intense childhood mental distress. This article describes the conditions very well.
https://childmind.org/guide/parents-guide-to-pans-and-pandas/ #:~:text=neuroscience%20branch%20of%20the%20National,linked%20definitively%20to%20strep%20infections.

How to recognize these forms of severe, acute-onset OCD, how they are diagnosed, and the recommended treatments.

03/10/2024

I like this research article because it has a very realistic recommendation for parents: Stop children using their digital devices in their beds at bedtime. Please share your thoughts.

Parents of children and teenagers have long been warned about the dangers of screen time and digital devices before bed, the worry being that their sleep patterns could be harmed. But do screens really affect the length and quality of sleep? Interestingly, while scientists say some of that anxiety i...