Parent information on emotional/mental health

Young Minds

Information about anxiety, what can cause it, and how it may affect children and young people, and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

MindEd

E-learning module which describes anxiety and worry in children and young people and discusses how to support them.

Hands-on Scotland

Section on Anxiety: Practical advice about managing anxiety, including specific problems such as clingy behaviour, phobias and school refusal.

Young Minds

Information about depression, what can cause it, how it may affect children and young people, and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

Leaflet providing information about depression in children and young people, and how to get help if you’re worried. Includes a parent’s story about dealing with her child’s depression, as well as a list of resources for further support.

Hands on Scotland

Section on Sadness and Fear: Practical advice about sadness, unhappiness and depression and how to help your child.

Young Minds

Information about how and why young people self-harm and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

Young Minds

A digital resource pack to support parents who are dealing with a child who is self-harming. Watch the accompanying film, co-created by young people, parents and professionals, click here

MindEd

Resources for parents and carers detailing what to do when your child is self-harming.

Hands-on Scotland

Self Harm: Practical advice about responding helpfully and safely to a child or young person is is self-harming.

Young Minds

Information about how and why young people self-harm and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

Young Minds

A digital resource pack to support parents who are dealing with a child who is self-harming. Watch the accompanying film, co-created by young people, parents and professionals, click here

MindEd

Resources for parents and carers detailing what to do when your child is self-harming.

Hands-on Scotland

Self Harm: Practical advice about responding helpfully and safely to a child or young person is is self-harming.

Young Minds

Information about common sleep problems in children and young people and how to get help for your child if needed.

Hands-on Scotland

Practical advice about common sleep problems in children and young people and how to address them. Includes information about specific issues such as nightmares, night terrors and children who refuse to sleep.

Young Minds

Information about eating problems in children and young people and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

MindEd

Resources about common eating disorders and what to do if you’re worried your child may have one. Includes video case studies, information about treatment options and top tips to help you support your child.

Hands-on Scotland

Section on Eating and Drinking: Practical advice about a range of eating problems affecting young people, including binge eating, not eating enough and overeating.

Young Minds

Information about common behavioural problems in children and young people and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

Hands-on Scotland

Section on: Anger and Aggression

Practical advice about managing anger and aggression in children and young people, with specific advice about topics such as bullying and temper tantrums.

Young Minds

Information about bullying, how it can affect children and young people, and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

MindEd

Resources about bullying, the different forms it can take and how you can help if your child is being bullied. Also includes advice about what to do if you are worried your child is bullying others.

Hands-on Scotland

Section on: Anger/Aggression - Bullying

Practical advice about responding helpfully to children or young people who have been bullied by others.

Young Minds

Information about bereavement, how it can affect children and young people, and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

MindEd

Resources focusing on understanding children and young people’s grief and how best to support them through bereavement.

 

Young Minds

Information about school work and exam stress, how it can affect children and young people, and how to get help for your child if needed. Includes links to a number of useful resources for further information and support.

Young Minds - Worried about your child?

Reliable information for parents and carers about common mental health and behaviour concerns in children and young people aged 0-25. Find out about symptoms, possible causes and what you can do to help. Also includes links to further information, resources and other organisations you can contact for support.

Young Minds - Parent helpline

The YoungMinds Parents Helpline, offers free, confidential online and telephone support, including information and advice, to any adult worried about the emotional problems, behaviour or mental health of a child or young person up to the age of 25. Open 9:30-4pm, Monday-Friday.

MindEd

Online support and advice for parents with concerns about their children’s mental health and well-being. MindEd covers a wide range of topics and was developed in partnership with parents and professionals.

Hands-on Scotland

A toolkit of helpful responses to encourage children and young people’s emotional wellbeing. Includes sections both on how to help children flourish and how to help with troubling behaviours.

Improving the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of expectant mothers, infants, children and young people throughout Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Area.

(N.B: The Family and Therapies team at ABUHB is NOT responsible for the content on the webpage links that we refer to in our resource sections and linked information to external sites. All information was accurate and appropriate at the time the webpage was created.)

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