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Child mental health

Want to find out about supporting your child with anxiety, depression, and day to day difficulties? The articles below provide helpful information. 

Children's mental health: tips and advice 

Blogs
In a post-pandemic world, children are struggling with anxiety more than ever. What can we do to help?
Children engaging in a school activity, who are adjusting to school life in a post-pandemic world
In a post-pandemic world, children are struggling with anxiety more than ever. What can we do to help?
Blogs
A mother speaks about her experience of supporting her teen daughter’s struggle with anorexia
A mother supports her teenage daughter through her struggle with anorexia
A mother speaks about her experience of supporting her teen daughter’s struggle with anorexia
Parenting Tips
How to cope if your child is self-harming
Image of an unhappy young woman
How to cope if your child is self-harming
Parenting Tips
Youth Mental Health Day: help your child be more in control of their online lives
boy and girl using devices to access the internet
Youth Mental Health Day: help your child be more in control of their online lives
Parenting Tips
Children's Mental Health Month 2025: children's wellbeing
Sad child sitting on the floor
Children's Mental Health Month 2025: children's wellbeing
Parenting Tips
Signs of self-harm
teenage girl with sad expression
Signs of self-harm
Parenting Tips
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)?
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)?
Parenting Tips
Trauma, the Brain and Recovery
A child staring into the distance and possibly recovering from trauma
Trauma, the Brain and Recovery

Anxiety in children 

Parenting Tips
Coping with climate anxiety
A young woman standing in a path between trees, struggling with climate anxiety
Coping with climate anxiety
Parenting Tips
Fake News and Anxiety
A laptop in an office setting displays an online article with the headline, Fake News
Fake News and Anxiety
Parenting Tips
Separation anxiety in babies and toddlers
Mum cuddling her sleeping baby
Separation anxiety in babies and toddlers
Parenting Tips
The Anxious Child
A young child stroking a pet dog on a comfy sofa
The Anxious Child
Parenting Tips
Practical Support for Anxious Children
An anxious young boy with a troubled expression on his face
Practical Support for Anxious Children
Parenting Tips
Perfectionism in children
Little girl carefully colouring in some drawings
Perfectionism in children

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