We have created a series of podcasts called ‘Let’s Talk’ for children, parents and families. These podcasts are designed to support emotional wellbeing when dealing with health problems, spending time in a neonatal unit, or being in hospital.
You can find our podcasts on all major platforms, or play them directly below.
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A podcast from the Paediatric & Neonatal Clinical Psychology Service in the Northern Trust supporting the psychological and emotional experience of young people and their families, in living with health-related difficulties, or infants and families who need to spend time in Neonatal Care. The series will focus on providing information and sharing experiences that relate to families who are in contact with the Paediatric & Neonatal Services.
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Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Maeve Cushnahan talks to Aoife Maguire, a young person who has lived with type 1 diabetes since the age of two and a half. Now Seventeen, Aoife tells the story about how her family supported her in the early years, changes in type 1 diabetes technology during her life and how Aoife experienced growing up as a young person with type 1 diabetes from primary to secondary school and now on the verge of university.
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Additional resources
Paediatric psychology support for families living with epilepsy
What is anxiety?
Procedural Distress Parent version (for Younger Children)
Procedural Distress Young Person version
Apps guide for children and young people
Neonatal Unit Psychology poster
Websites
Neonatal Psychology
TinyLife – Northern Ireland’s Premature and Vulnerable Baby Charity
Bliss – for babies born premature or sick