Trauma can impact your teen’s ability to cope. Understanding the effects of trauma can help you find the best ways to support your teen. This module will help you understand what we mean by trauma, recognise the signs and symptoms, understand its impact on teens, and create an environment that fosters their recovery.

It can be tricky for parents to know how to support their teens following a traumatic experience. In this module, we will talk about how to have conversations with your teen about how they have been coping, offer reassurance, encourage consistency, and support your teen to use helpful coping strategies.

It can be hard for parents to tell whether changes in their teen’s behaviours are a normal part of adolescence, or a sign of a mental health problem. In this module, we’ll take a closer look at depression and anxiety disorders in teens, including how you can support your teen’s mental health now and into the future.

Connect is about empowering you to change your behaviour so you can positively influence your teenager. We’ll talk about ways to build your relationship and communication with your teenager.

We all feel anxious at times, and it’s important for teenagers to learn to manage their everyday anxiety. ‘From surviving to thriving: Helping your teenager deal with anxiety’ will talk about ways that you can support your teenager to cope with the fears and worries they will inevitably face.

Teenagers need the adults around them to set clear boundaries and expectations for their behaviour. This module will help you to establish clear expectations that your teen is likely to follow.

Parents play an important role in helping their teenagers learn to manage conflict. ‘Calm versus conflict’ aims to help you manage conflict at home, to create a safe and supportive environment for your teenager.

As teenagers begin to place greater emphasis on their peers, parents still play an important role in helping their teens to develop social skills. This module helps you to support your teen to develop social skills across a variety of settings.

‘Nurture roots’ is all about finding a balanced way to stay involved in your teenager’s life while also allowing them to ‘leave the nest’ and develop age-appropriate independence.

Getting enough sleep, eating well, being physically active, and not using alcohol or drugs can protect our physical and mental health. This module is all about helping you to support your teenager to develop good health habits.

Problems are a part of life. As teenagers mature, they need to learn strategies to tackle the problems they will face throughout their life. ‘Partners in problem solving’ focusses on how you as a parent can support your teenager to develop good problem-solving skills.

It is normal for a teenager’s mental health to fluctuate. Maintaining the Gains is about how you can support your teen to continue looking after their mental health, even when challenges or setbacks arise.