Parent and carer training opportunities  - please share with your parent and carers

Attachment, covering:

• What attachment is, giving a brief overview of attachment, along with introducing the importance of attachment for early brain development and infant mental health and wellbeing.
• The barriers to developing healthy attachment and what the impact of this can be on an infants development.
• Strategies and tips on how to nurture attachment in the early years and beyond, emphasising the need to support attachment across all ages.

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Managing my child's worry, covering:

• What worry is, how it differs from anxiety and why as parents we need to support our children to worry and find effective ways to control worry.
• Introducing the concept of worry time along, the importance of learning your children about the anxiety response.
• Exploring ways to communicate with your child about worry and the views of young people; things they wished their parents had asked them when they were worried.
• Explore self-help strategies to support worry and anxiety.

Self-harm, covering:

• Why young people may self-harm, and an emphasis made on self-harm is a behaviour, not a mental health illness.
• Positive strategies for adults to use with children and young people along with helpful apps, tips and resources on how you can promote aspects of resilience from this.

Resilience, covering: 

• What are the key aspects of resilience, why it is important to support children and young people in building resilience and strategies on how to do this.
• Insight into the current resources that are available for you to use and what MYA are doing to promote resilience during the lockdown.

Social media, covering:

• Strategies on how to promote safety to children and young people when using these apps.
• How technology and social media can be good for their mental health and how we can promote aspects of resilience from this.

Managing my teenager's worry, covering:

What teenagers are worrying about when to be concerned about your teenager, how to help with teenage issues and worries

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Eating disorders, covering:

• Isolation with no routine being a potential trigger.
• The causes of eating disorders, signs and symptoms to look out for, the different types of eating disorders and the negative influence social media can have on a young person.
• Insight into the current resources that are available for you to use and tips if you are worried about a young person.

Embracing uncertainty, covering:

• What we mean when we say, ‘be present’ and the benefits of being present.
• Techniques to help you work on being more present and explore concepts such as mindfulness and grounding techniques.
• Making small changes to your routine to support your mental health and wellbeing and the benefits of reducing worry about the past and the future.

These sessions cover a range of mental health issues which impact on children, young people and their families.

The sessions will last between 30 - 60 minutes and will be delivered via the video-calling tool, Zoom, to groups of people at various times of the day and evening.