Emerging Minds Podcast: Collaborating to meet infant health needs
25th March 2025
When working with parents in the early years, transdisciplinary collaboration assists practitioners to understand the family’s psychosocial context and to ensure the voice of child is central. This is particularly important when planning and making decisions about the child’s mental health and wellbeing. Collaboration helps identify how the family’s informal supports and professional services can coordinate the changes needed for family’s wellbeing.
Transdisciplinary collaboration reduces the need for parents to re-tell their stories, improves access to referrals and develops clarity around a shared vision for the child’s wellbeing.
Clear communication between services enables the system of care to see the ‘whole child’. This facilitates the coordination of early intervention approaches; moderates risk of harm for the child; and reduces potential long-term mental health impacts for children.