'Making Everything Alright'
The latest addition to The Worry Bug Project resources is ‘Making Everything Alright’, a series of three videos. The videos address themes within the Te Whare Tapa Whā model, offering a biopsychosocial approach to managing after disaster or times of significant change. The series references clinical and research based evidence for the techniques discussed and grounds the information in family experiences from the quakes in Canterbury.
‘Making Everything Alright’ is funded by the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust and Kōtuku Creative and is supported by the All Right? Campaign.
‘Making Everything Alright’ is funded by the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trust and Kōtuku Creative and is supported by the All Right? Campaign.
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1. Psychological Support
The first film in the series is directed at families or professionals working with families, and looks at psychological ways to manage the two main types of anxiety responses that have shown up in post-disaster populations. Julie Burgess-Manning interviews Dr Dougal Sutherland, Clinical Psychologist, Victoria University of Wellington. Dougal has many years of experience working with child and family mental health, including management of a CAMHS team. He currently manages the clinical practice component of the Clinical Psychology post-graduate Diploma for Victoria University in Wellington. |
1. Physical and Spiritual Support
The second film looks at using spiritual and self-care techniques as part of your everyday life in order to promote mental health. Julie Burgess-Manning interviews mindfulness teacher, Gestalt therapist and parenting coach Neave Ross-Wallace Over the past 25 years she has worked as an early childhood educator, family counsellor, adult educator, parenting coach and mindfulness teacher. More recently Neave has taught mindfulness to over 600 primary school children on behalf of the Mental Health Foundation of NZ and well as teaching the MBSR programme to over 1200 adults to date. |
1. Community Support
The third film examines how community on a wider scale can affect mental health post-disaster. Julie Burgess-Manning interviews Sue Turner, Manager All Right? Social Marketing Wellbeing Campaign, Otautahi Sue is the manager of The All Right? Social Marketing Wellbeing Campaign, Otautahi. All Right? is a public health response initiated after the Canterbury Earthquakes, to assess and address the social and mental health needs of the population, post-disaster. |
The presenter, interviewer and production lead is Julie Burgess-Manning. Julie is a Family Therapist and NZ Registered Psychologist who has studied and practiced in England and throughout New Zealand. She has worked in a variety of child, adolescent and family mental health settings for the past 18 years, with roles such as Senior Clinician, Therapist, Clinical Supervisor and Primary Mental Healthcare Liaison.
The Worry Bug Project led by Julie Burgess-Manning and Sarina Dickson began as a response to the Canterbury earthquake sequence. A series of books and a 5-minute film were developed to support children, their families and their schools to move through, and beyond, the effects of natural disaster.
Massey University, led by Dr Benita Stiles-Smith, conducted research into the use of the books and their effectiveness. Via this research and relationships established by Julie and Sarina within family, school and professional environments common messages of resilience and rebound were recognised. The Worry Bug Project continues to be researched by Massey’s psychology department in order that they can find out what is effective in the way of resources for this population and some of the outcomes from that research have underpinned our continued work.
To buy the resources mentioned in the videos for your family, school or clinic please visit here
The Worry Bug Project led by Julie Burgess-Manning and Sarina Dickson began as a response to the Canterbury earthquake sequence. A series of books and a 5-minute film were developed to support children, their families and their schools to move through, and beyond, the effects of natural disaster.
Massey University, led by Dr Benita Stiles-Smith, conducted research into the use of the books and their effectiveness. Via this research and relationships established by Julie and Sarina within family, school and professional environments common messages of resilience and rebound were recognised. The Worry Bug Project continues to be researched by Massey’s psychology department in order that they can find out what is effective in the way of resources for this population and some of the outcomes from that research have underpinned our continued work.
To buy the resources mentioned in the videos for your family, school or clinic please visit here