Getting help

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.

Supporting a child that is being trolled online

Parents and Carers

Find out more about how to tackle hate online and online trolls with Internet Matters useful advice guide, what online hate is and to how to support your child.
Online safety – internet matters

Parents and Carers

Get tools and tips to support your child’s digital wellbeing on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
Understanding self esteem

Parents and Carers

Action for Children help us to understand self esteem. Learn how to recognise if a young person is experiencing low self-esteem and what responses can positively impact on a young person's self esteem.
The Teenage Brain

Parents and Carers

BBC Bitesize tell us how recent discoveries in neuroscience have shown that our brains change rapidly during our teenage years and continue to develop until our mid-twenties.
Ways to calm an anxious child

Parents and Carers

Psychology today provide some helpful ways to calm an anxious child
ADHD: child perspective film

Parents and Carers

A short animated film about what a child's experience of ADHD might be like.
Back to school – top anxiety triggers for pupils

Parents and Carers

Back to school: Top anxiety triggers revealed by Barnardo's survey. BBC Newsround help to increase understanding of why young people might struggle when it's time to go back to school.
What do young people worry about most

Parents and Carers

BBC Newsround tell us the top worries and stresses for young people today. This article also links to films and resources that will help to increase a parents understanding of young people's worries and how to best support them in difficult times.
How to inspire your child to deal with school anxiety

Parents and Carers

Hey Sigmund explains where school anxiety may be coming from, the potential pitfalls of managing this difficult situation and provides evidence based approaches for managing a child that is experiencing school anxiety.
How to support your child’s mental health

Parents and Carers

16 helpful tips to help you support your child's mental health.
Dyslexia and anxiety: what you need to know

Parents and Carers

Understood.org have written this article to help to understand the link between dyslexia and anxiety and recognise when this is present. It also provides advice on how to respond appropriately to a child that may be experiencing anxiety as a result of dyslexia. The article is American and the language reflects this.
ADHD and emotions. What you need to know

Parents and Carers

Understood.org have written this helpful article to assist in understanding the characteristics of ADHD, to recognise when a child with ADHD is experiencing difficulty with their emotions and how to respond appropriately in those moments. The article is from America and the language is reflective of this.
Helping your child to emotionally regulate

Parents and Carers

This article from parents.com helps parents to understand the emotional capabilities of children and provides helpful advice on how to respond to children appropriately when they are feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.
Helping your child with anxiety

Parents and Carers

Young Minds have produced this helpful article for parents who are wanting to help a child that is experiencing anxiety.
Make your kids emotionally smart

Parents and Carers

Emma Kenny, psychological therapist, gives some helpful guidance on growing emotionally smart children
Understanding emotions and behaviours

Parents and Carers

Understanding how emotions impact on behaviours
Health and emotional resilience

Parents and Carers

Why looking after your own health and encouraging healthy daily behaviour in your child is important for a child's resilience
Why encouraging your child’s talents and interests is important

Parents and Carers

How can you help your child discover their talents and nurture their interests
Friendships and your child’s resilience

Parents and Carers

How friendships impact on a child's emotional resilience
Education and your child’s emotional health

Parents and Carers

How does your child's experience of education impact on their resilience and emotional wellbeing
Feeling Secure

Parents and Carers

Discover how important feeling secure is to your child's emotional wellbeing
MindEd for Families – Children and Teens

Online resources, Parents and Carers

MindEd have a huge variety of resources to help you support your child
Parent Helpline

Online resources, Feeling Secure, Parents and Carers

Young Minds Parent Helpline
What is Resilience

Video, Education, Emotions & Behaviours, Feeling Secure, Friendships, Health, Talents & Interests, Parents and Carers, Resilience Conversations

Find out what Kent Young People have to say about Resilience
Seven things parents should know about adolescent behaviour

Parents and Carers

The moods, the inability to get out of bed in the morning, the embarrassment of being around parents. We’ll all recognise these common teenage behaviours. But why do adolescents act in these ways?