School & Family Development Workers Dundee

CAMHS parents and carers training.

We still have some spaces available on our Understanding and Supporting Your Child sessions for parents and carers starting next week. Do you wonder if your child is showing characteristics of being neurodivergent and are keen to understand and find ways to support them? Or, does your child struggle with big emotions? This course is a great place to start in thinking about how to support them. Sign up via Eventbrite here:

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Understanding and supporting your child Join our online programme aimed at exploring neuro diversity, building your understanding of what this means for your child. If there are no suitable times available on Eventbrite, please check back towards the end of term when we will add new dates.

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Supporting Your Child/Teen with Anxiety and Worries Over 4 weeks, learn practical tips and strategies to help your child or teen manage their anxiety and worries.

Our online course for parents and carers all about supporting your child with anxiety and worries is starting next week. 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.
You can sign up here via Eventbrite:

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🎉Daily Occupations and Sensory Processing Training 🎉
Sensory processing is the way we make sense of the information we receive from our bodies and the environment around us! Please see the visual below for the next few dates for our sensory trainings for parents.
❗PLEASE NOTE❗️: We have changed our September date from in-person to virtual.
Go to www.tickettailor.com/events/nhstaysidechildhealthot to find us, or scan the QR code to take you straight to our tickets.
Alternatively, you can book on through our website: https://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/.../SensoryT.../index.htm

😴 Struggling with your child’s sleep? You’re not alone.

Sleep is fundamentally important for every part of our lives; mood, behaviour, concentration, learning… everything feels trickier when tired and everything starts with a good rest. If your child (or you!) aren’t sleeping well, the golden rule is: sleep first.

This coming Monday & Tuesday, we’re running a deep dive Sleep Training session for parents. This isn’t about calm bedrooms or cosy bedtime routines, well we do go over this, but it’s about understanding why sleep has become a problem, retraining your child’s body for better sleep, and helping them learn to sleep independently.

This one is for all the tired adults out there:
✅ Those dreaming of a little time to themselves in the evening
✅ Those being woken through the night
✅ Those ready to finally get the sleep they need

It’s a bit of effort, but parents who’ve done it tell us: it’s life-changing.

📅 When: Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th @ 12.30pm next week
💤 Topic: Sleep training for children & young people
✨ Because everyone deserves a good night’s sleep.

Booking via eventbrite:
Monday: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1392418875339?aff=oddtdtcreator
Tuesday:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1394589929019?aff=oddtdtcreator

Did you know that around 80% of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in children, have an underlying communication difficulty? We have two sessions coming up for parents and carers all about communication. We'll look at the basics around communication and strategies to help us support our child's communication.
Monday 15th September 6pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-and-supporting-communication-for-parents-and-carers-tickets-1394653198259?aff=oddtdtcreator
Tuesday 16th September 12:30pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-and-supporting-communication-for-parents-and-carers-tickets-1394666618399?aff=oddtdtcreator

Decider Skills for Parents and Carers (4 Weeks) Decider Skills:12 mental health life skills taught by CAMHS Tayside Mental Health Education Officers, over 4, 1 hour online sessions.

We can't quite believe the summer holidays are nearly over already and we are getting ready for term time again. With the start of the new term we'll be back up and running with our online courses for parents and carers. First up, we wanted to let you know about our Decider Skills course. Over 4 weeks we'll take you through the 12 Life Skills which support distress tolerance, emotional regulation , mindfulness and interpersonal communication. Sign up via Eventbrite here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decider-skills-for-parents-and-carers-4-weeks-tickets-1387772076639?aff=oddtdtcreator