Resources
The Kent Resilience Hub has pulled together a variety resources that will help parents and carers support their children and young people’s emotional growth and mental health. Understanding how your child is growing emotionally and preparing for the challenges they might face can help you make positive changes to promote resilience and respond in a helpful way if your child is struggling to bounce back when life gets challenging.
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10 tips for parenting pre-teens.
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A Guide to sustaining attention and concentration
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Action for Children: Good mental health
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Action for children: Parent talk
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ADHD and behaviour: tips on how to support your child
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ADHD and emotions. What you need to know
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ADHD parenting tips
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ADHD: child perspective film
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Advice and information for parents about self-harm
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Anxiety: A guide for parents and carers
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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Back to school – top anxiety triggers for pupils
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Barnardo’s back to school and transition resources
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Barnardos: See, hear, respond support hub
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Beat: Eating Disorders
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Brain in Hand
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Centre for Mental Health: promoting resilience at home
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Child Bereavement UK
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Childhood epilepsy: a guide for parents
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Coronavirus: advice and guidance for parents and carers
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Cruse – a child’s understanding of death
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Cruse – death of a pupil
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Cruse – coping with trauma and loss
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Cruse – restoring hope
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Depression: a guide for parents and carers
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Domestic abuse support
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Down’s Syndrome Association: Emotional wellbeing resources
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Down’s Syndrome Association: How do you relax?
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Education and your child’s emotional health
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Everyday Active Kent: Explore activities
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Exam results stress: advice for parents
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Feeling secure
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Free mental health e-learning
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Friendships and your child’s resilience
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From Tot to Teen: Great home education resources
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Getting support with school refusal
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Good Mental Health Matters
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Good Mental Health Matters resources
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Gov.uk guidance: What parents and carers need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
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Handwriting practice for teenagers
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Happiful: Take a moment 4 mind
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Health and emotional resilience
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Helping your child to emotionally regulate
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Helping your child with anxiety
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How parents can help children who feel like they have no friends
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How to help children make friends: 12 evidence-based tips
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How to help your teen choose their school subjects: A checklist for parents
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How to inspire your child to deal with school anxiety
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How to support your child’s mental health
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How to support your child’s wellbeing during Covid
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Information for families on autism and ADHD in children: a support handbook and films
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Information, Advice and Support Kent (IASK)
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Internet Matters
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KCC support for young parents
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KCHFT: The Pod children’s therapies
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Kooth.com online support and counselling
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Live Well Kent
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Local advice and support directory
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Make your kids emotionally smart
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Mencap: Support for parents and carers of children and young people
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Mental Health Foundation: Fundamental facts about mental health (2016)
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Mental health Foundation: Ten tips for parents with a child with a learning disability
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Mental Health Matters
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Mentally Healthy Schools: Parent/carer engagement
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Mermaids: Information and resources for parents
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Mid-Kent Mind: free online mental health awareness training
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Mind: Parenting with a mental health problem
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MindEd for families
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MindEd: Anxiety Disorders session
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My Kent Family
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nasen: Helping everyone achieve
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National Autistic Society
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National Institute of Mental Health: Children and Mental Health
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NHS information on children and young people’s mental health needs during Covid-19
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NHS One You: Every Mind Matters
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NHS Talking Therapies
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NHS: Coping with your teenager
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NHS: Coping with your teenager
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NHS: Living with ADHD
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NHS: Teenage pregnancy support
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Not Naughty: 10 ways children appear to be acting bad but aren’t
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NSPCC: Mental health and parenting
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One You Kent
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Online safety – internet matters
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Our Time: Helping young people affected by parental mental illness
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Overactivity and poor concentration
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Parenting a teenager
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Parenting a teenager: Looking after yourself
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Parenting a teenager: What your teenager needs
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Parentkind free resources
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Parents guide on gaming
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Place2Be: Mental health services
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Refusing to go to School – how can you help your child?
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relate: Coping with disruptive teenagers
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relate: help with family life and parenting
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Resilience Conversation Tools
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Rethink: about mental illness
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Rise Above
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Samaritans
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School Public Health: FAQs for parent
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Scope: Managing your stress when caring for your disabled child
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Scope: Support groups for parents
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Self-care top tips for young parents and carers
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Selfharm UK
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Seven things parents should know about adolescent behaviour
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Staying safe online
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Stress on the brain
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Suicide Prevention and Awareness Training from Mid-Kent Mind
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Supporting a child that is being trolled online
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Surviving Adolescence: for parents and carers
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Teen Tips: resources for schools and parents
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The Children’s Society: Five Ways to Wellbeing Postcards
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The Mix: self-harm coping tips and distractions
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The psychology of play to regulate emotions and support wellbeing
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The restless and excitable child: advice for parents and carers
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The Teenage Brain
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The voice for epilepsy
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UK Trauma Council: Childhood Trauma and the Brain
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Understanding emotions and behaviours
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Understanding self esteem
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Ways to calm an anxious child
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What do young people worry about most
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What is resilience
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What parents can do to support friendships
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When your child’s friends become enemies
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Why encouraging your child’s talents and interests is important
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Why is it so important to address anxiety?
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Young Minds: parents guide to supporting anger
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Young Minds: Parents survival guide
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Young Minds: Supporting your child with ADHD
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Young Minds: Supporting your child with low mood and depression
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Young Minds: Supporting your child with school anxiety and refusal
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YoungMinds parent helpline
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Youth Sport Trust: Active parents, active children
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