It's our final regular season episode of 2025!

We hope you've enjoyed Season 5 of the ResearchWorks Podcast. From EACD to AACPDM, the conference video and interview series, our DMI and CME special, to the launch of the ResearchWorks Academy - 2025 has been the biggest year yet for the pod!

In 2026, we plan to bring you even more of the latest research from conferences from across the globe, with our partnerships with EACD, AACPDM and AusACPDM (now known as the OCEANIA Academy). We are working with international partners across the globe to bring you the very latest breakthroughs in research and evidence.

The ResearchWorks Academy will continue to be free and open access and soon with a premium range of micro credentialing courses from renowned lecturers, teachers, researchers and academics - providing the very latest in research and evidence in a practical format to enhance your practice.

Enjoy our look back at 2025 and we wish all of our listeners (and viewers!) happy holidays over the festive breaks and we look forward to a bigger and better 2026 ahead!

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BMJ Paediatrics Open - Dr Olaf Kraus de Camargo

“When challenges exist, children and families may benefit from supports that are tailored to their individual strengths and support needs, irrespective of whether or not a child has one or more diagnosed condition(s).”

Strengths-based and client-centred approaches in the field of childhood disability have been proposed in healthcare for decades, but in many places in the world, our service structures and therapeutic endeavours still are directed at fixing/compensating deficits in a prescriptive way. In the field of child developmental (disability) services, we have recently seen the publication of Canadian and Australian policies and frameworks that explicitly endorse this strengths-based approach, recommending in particular the use of the F-words for Child Development first published by CanChild scientists Peter Rosenbaum and Jan Willem Gorter in 2012.

This commentary reflects on how strength-based approaches and client-centred care, developed over the last 50 years, have culminated in a paradigm shift in how we define and promote ‘health’.

https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/9/1/e003418

A shorter than usual episode about the future of the pod - 2026 and beyond.

We will be continuing our support of the Oceania (formerly AusACPDM) conference, the EACD conference and the AACPDM conference in 2026 with in-person, on-site, live broadcasts from Australia, Europe and the Americas!

2025 has also seen the team behind the pod launch the ResearchWorks Academy - an entirely FREE online portal for clinicians and researchers, designed to be a one-stop site for all your clinical application needs. You can register today for full access.

From AI and ML driven toolsets, to reports, templates, flowcharts, decision trees, outcome measures and more - we are aiming to empower clinicians across the globe with the tools needed to implement evidence based practices. Let us know if you have any suggestions for the site and how we can continue to develop the resources available.

On demand courses will also soon launch - we are working with international partners from across the ResearchWorks network to provide the very latest information, courses and educational tools too, so stay tuned!

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