Children in Mind

Children in Mind Basic child psychology. The parents' guide to helping their children with behavioural, emotional and psychological problems.

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

For online help with anything related to your child’s behaviour and emotions, please contact Christine Annandale. See he...
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

Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) in children can be debilitating - and extremely difficult for parents to handle. For...
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 perkeljenny@gmail.com. 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.

Please contact me if you are interested in attending these groups online. And please share with anyone you know who migh...
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 🌻

To learn more about child psychology in clinical practice, see this CPD accredited online presentation.
31/10/2024

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

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Another reason for teenagers to avoid cannabis 🌻
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...

Sometimes an infection can be the cause of a child’s anxiety-type symptoms. PANDA or PANS are conditions that are increa...
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.

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About Children in Mind

Children in Mind was started by Cape Town based clinical psychologist, Jenny Perkel. Like Babies in Mind, it is informed largely by a psychodynamic framework. But in addition to this, it is based on a substantial body of evidence-based research, specifically related to child development and child psychology. The author, Ian McEwan wrote, “There is no richer field of speculation assertively addressed as fact as child care.” Although the ‘truth’ can be elusive and can vary from person to person and across cultures and generations, Children in Mind aims to ally itself as closely as possible to the ‘truth’ of child mental health. The primary focus and priority is the child’s best interests.

It can be unhelpful sometimes to be given generalized advice about your kids when the ‘expert’ doesn’t know or understand you, your circumstances and the specifics of your child’s life. For this reason, there are limits to how much guidance and help you can get from the internet, including this website. If you feel that the problems that you are experiencing with your child need to be addressed more thoroughly, please contact Jenny Perkel at jenny@perkel.co.za, so that she can discuss your concerns with you directly and perhaps refer you to a child psychology specialist in your area.

Please join our community of moms and practitioners via our Children in Mind Facebook group for more support.