Useful Courses for Parents and Carers

Join our 2 week online programme aimed at exploring neurodiversity, building your understanding of what this means for your child. We will explore preventative and in the moment strategies for supporting your child’s development and focus on building on your child’s strengths.

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite

Did you know that around 80% of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in children, have an underlying communication difficulty? Join us for this online session exploring communication basics and strategies to help with communication.

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towar
ds the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite. 

Join us for this online session exploring sleep basics and strategies to help with problematic sleep patterns.

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite.

To get the most out of this session we recommend completing our Understanding and Supporting Your Child course first.

Join us for this online session exploring emotions and strategies to support your child.

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite.

To get the most out of this session we recommend completing our Understanding and Supporting Your Child sessions first.

Join us for these online sessions exploring behaviour. Over two weeks we'll look at strategies to help us better understand behaviours, preventative strategies and specific strategies related to the function of behaviour.

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite.

Join us for this online session exploring executive function. During the session we will think about strategies to support with:

• Inhibition: The ability to control impulses and ignore distractions.
• Planning and Prioritising: Being able to set goals and working out the steps to achieve them.
• Working Memory: The ability to hold information in your mind over a short period of time.
• Self-Regulation: The ability to regulate and stay on task in stressful situations e.g. not giving up when frustrated.
• Attention: Attention is generally influenced by two other executive function skills; inhibition and self regulation.

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite.

Over 4 weeks (1 hour per week) Mental Health Education staff from CAMHS will teach parents the 12 life skills, based in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. These skills aim to support children and young people to learn to manage emotionally difficult situations in less damaging, more positive ways. The skills support distress tolerance, emotional regulation, mindfulness and interpersonal communication.

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite.

Over 4 weeks our Mental Health Education Officers will explore anxiety:

• What is it? Why do we have it?
• When do we know anxiety is becoming a problem?
• Anxiety Traps? What are they? How can we avoid them?
• Ways to cope.

Sessions will run for 4 weeks on MS Teams

This course is run online every school term with a choice of daytime and evening sessions. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates ready for the next school term.

Please click on this link to book via Eventbrite.

Our NHS colleagues in Children and Young People’s Occupational Therapy Service offer training for parents and carers around understanding your child's sensory needs.

Click on this link to find out more.

Did you know that all online Togetherness Courses (previously named Solihull Approach) are free for families in Scotland using code 'TARTAN'. These really are great courses with the added bonus that they can be done at your own pace and from the comfort of your own home.

We particularly like the following courses:
3a. Understanding your child.
3b. Understanding your child with additional support needs.
4. Understanding your teenager's brain.
7. Understanding your child's feelings

For Teens Only
There's also a series of courses designed for teens, one of which helps teenagers to understand changes in their brain during adolescence, and other aimed at helping adolescents understand their emotions. Definitely something to share!
Remember these are free for all families in scotland using the code 'TARTAN'.

Click on this link to find out more.

Online support programmes to help support anxious children and teenagers are now available through NHS Tayside’s Computerised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (cCBT) service.

There are two free virtual programmes available:
• Silvercloud - Supporting an Anxious Child for Parents, Teachers and Carers of children aged 4-11.
• Silvercloud - Supporting an Anxious Teen for parents, Teachers and Carers of children aged 12-18.

Each programme provides learning opportunities on a range of topics, such as problem solving, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) skills and anxiety management planning.

If you are interested in accessing these free programmes, click on this link to register using the access code: Scotland2020