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Courses for Parents
Overview
Parenting a child from around age 10 can be a testing time for today’s parents. In addition to the onset of trademark teenage behaviours, many families are seeing a marked increase in worrying dysfunctional issues like high levels of anxiety, depression, aggression or apathy, screen addiction (social media, gaming and pornography), eating issues, binge drinking, drugs and self-harm.
These problems have their roots in dysregulated anxiety, but once they have become established habits, they are difficult to reverse without professional help. Often there is little obvious warning beforehand as teens start to explore their image, identity, socializing and relationships with peers, pushing boundaries and establishing independent attitudes.
We conduct courses for Parents/Carers to help you develop the understanding and intuition you need so that you can provide vital proactive support, helping your child avoid issues in adulthood and give them child the necessary building blocks for good mental health.
You will leave with knowledge and practical ideas on:
- What is normal teen behaviour and how to recognize and act on the more worrying signals
- How to calm the underlying emotional state that drives teen behavior
- How to have difficult conversations and impose boundaries
- Ways in which to create the right kind of home life to support your teen
- How to maintain influence and respect through the teen years
Our courses are run in three ways:
- OPEN ACCESS COURSES IN LONDON delivered either all in a day or 2 x 2.5hr evenings. See bookings page for availability.
- HOST YOUR OWN (1 day) – If you would rather gather your own group of around 20 participants, this could be an option for you. Participants pay £110 per person to attend, a percentage of which is paid to the host to defray costs of organising and providing lunch.
- PARENT INPUTS AT YOUR SCHOOL – Encourage your school to host either the full day or 3 evening course. We can conduct sessions for 30-100 parents, depending on the size of the venue. Prices from £40 per person to include a book worth £12.99.
Our Day Courses or series of Evening Talks will cover:
- What parents can expect from normal teenage behaviour and what points to more worrying signs of mental health decline.
- A better understanding of the changing teen brain will give you a good grounding for realising why your child’s emotional state and behaviour changes and will help you develop practical and proactive ways to maintain a balanced relationship with your child.
- With the right support and through knowing how to keep lines of communication open, you will help your teen to keep themselves on a more even keel and to better manage their day-to-day pressures.
- Heightened Anxiety which is often the root cause of dysfunctional issues like panic attacks, depression, OCD, self-harming behaviours, disordered eating, binge drinking, addictive tendencies or online dependency – all of which are potential mental health issues requiring professional help.
- The parent/child relationship, and home life itself, can enable a child to gradually develop their capabilities, learn how to take responsibility and ultimately to manage their inevitable ups and downs.
- Practical ways that parents, and home life, can provide the conditions where pre-teen & teens start to develop a secure sense of self, find their own strategies to regulate their emotions in healthy ways, cope with day-to-day stresses, build mental resilience and ultimately become fully rounded autonomous adults.
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