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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Your view, their view, our view… to best understand

To develop an effective screening model, it is crucial to replicate best clinical practices through the triangulation of perspectives and data. For example, when a child is referred for behavioral…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Looking for the big and the small… see the whole picture

When an organization or school screens every young personyouth, they can flag the needs and strengths of individual and collective…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Be in the know and respond when its needed

Screening and triage are critical processes to maintain the standard of care. Rapid access to organized, actionable clinical information equips…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Share the plan, do the plan… feel safe within the plan

Proactive safety planning acts as a guardrail to prevent and mitigate crises, which could otherwise overwhelm a young person’s coping abilities, akin to how disaster planning, fire drills, or pre-flight…

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Angus • 20 May 2025
What are we writing down?… Why are we writing it?

Clinical documentation generates a strong emotional response from many clinicians in behavioral health organizations because the requirements are often excessive. Note writing was established to provide a historical record, a…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Can’t keep in step… how trauma impacts the brain

A confounding factor in recovery from trauma is the phenomenon of “hypofrontality,” the process where the frontal lobe, the seat of problem solving and cognitive controls, is impaired. Hormones are…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Understanding your brain garden… weeds and all

The brain is not fully developed until a person is about 25 years old. The executive office in the front part of the brain, known as the prefrontal cortex or…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Practice for the mind…to heal the brain

Mindfulness practices are increasingly recognized as highly effective with post- treatment. The moment-to-moment awareness of bodily activities, feelings, emotions, and sensations helps young people regulate emotions and heals brain functions.44F…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Be in the know and respond when its needed

Screening and triage are critical processes to maintain the standard of care. Rapid access to organized, actionable clinical information equips staff with the insights they need to intervene effectively. Moreover,…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Understanding Depression and anxiety… How are they different?

Swimming safely through life : When we think about the relationship between anxiety and depression, I think it can be useful to imagine them as each being on the banks…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Tips to Understanding and Managing Stress

When we think about stress it is usual for there to be a focus on the negative feelings and Impact of Distress, rather what we actually thrive on for growth…

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Zimozi • 20 May 2025
Working as a Clinician Practitioner in 2024 is Not for the Faint Hearted!

I call myself a ‘modern behaviouralist’. In the context of NDIS in Australia, and perhaps more broadly the human service sector inclusive of welfare, health and those involved in the…

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Zimozi • 05 May 2025
The Path to Confidence and Growth

A wise educator counselled one of my children years ago as they made the tentative step from primary to secondary school. The teacher suggested that each child should be encouraged…

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