If you are looking for self-help resources for either yourself or your child, you can find some helpful websites and apps to support you.
For Parents and Carers
Anna Freud – Finding time for yourself can be a challenge as you juggle family and relationships with your home and work life. Even more so if you are supporting a child or young person with their mental health. The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families have created some useful advice about the importance of self-care.
This May Help has been created to support parents and carers with concerns about their child’s mental health.
The subjects covered on this website have been chosen by families and young people who have gone through their own mental health challenges. What helped them may also help you.
Be Body Positive is an NHS-backed online resource containing psychoeducational modules for CYP, parents, carers and professionals on topics surrounding body image, normal eating and wellbeing.
For more information, please contact hello@bebodypositive.org.uk
1 Hart, 1 Mind, 1 Future gathers information from Parent/Carers and Professionals and using these unique shared experiences will help to shape the development and delivery of services to our children and young people.
Kooth have also launched a Parent and Carers guide to supporting young people with mental health which you can access
The ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity supports parents and carers so they can understand and meet the needs of their child. With a range of webinars, courses, resources, and our screening service, we help families to know which interventions and adaptations are right for them.
SPCF is made up of parents and carers of children and young people with SEND aged 0-25 years living in Stockton on Tees. We volunteer our time to work alongside strategic bodies, service providers and commissioners to ensure that the needs of children, young people with SEND and their families are being met
Rollercoaster is a parent-led, professionally supported service, passionate about offering support and promoting the role of families in children and young people’s mental health. We are a needs-led, responsive, and creative service for families and professionals, who are supporting young people through mental health.
For Children and Young People
Daylio is a self-care bullet journal with goals, a mood diary, and a happiness tracker.
Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope.
Calm provides you with tools to manage stress and anxiety, improve sleep and feel more present in your life.
Kooth gives children and young people with easy access to an online community of peers and a team of experienced counsellors.
Smiling Mind is designed for minds of all ages and stages. The app helps you develop skills that promote mental well-being and create habits to thrive.
YoungMinds provides information and advice to young people, parents, and carers. This includes help with understanding feelings, finding ways to feel better, and supporting someone who is struggling.
Clear Fear is an app where you can face your fear and learn to reduce the physical responses to threats as well as change thoughts and behaviours and release emotions.
ChillPanda helps children better understand their stress and shows them ways to feel better. This could include breathing techniques, yoga, exercise and calming games.
My Possible Self have teamed up with Priory Healthcare, and world leaders in mental health. Together they have created interactive tools and techniques, using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), customised for digital use.
MindShift® CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and take active steps to manage your anxiety.
SAM is a non-profit, community-backed well-being app designed to help you monitor and manage your mental health, offering self-help techniques to help with anxiety, depression, loneliness and coping. SAM is informed by clinical best practices and academic research.
Understanding Autism has been created by young people with autism, for young people who go on to be diagnosed with autism to understand what the diagnosis means for them. It explains in a young person friendly way what to expect and supports with understanding what autism might mean for them.
Calm Harm is an award-winning app funded by teenage mental health charity stem4, to help manage the urge to self-harm. It was developed by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause MBE, in collaboration with young people and uses principles from an evidence-based psychological treatment called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).
