Parent Workshop Programme
The Parent Workshop Programme offers free 1 hour Mental Health workshops for parents and carers, offering support, advice and guidance on how best to support a child or young person's emotional health and wellbeing.
This programme offers families a range of one hour workshops, led by the Psychology in Schools Team from Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). The Psychology in Schools Team is made up of clinical psychologists and senior psychotherapists who have worked in specialist mental health services.
Psychology in Schools Team (PST) Parent/Carer Workshops - Spring Term 2025
Understanding Self-Harm in Children/Adolescents
Knowing your child or young person is finding things difficult and engaging in self-harm can be frightening and confusing for parents and carers. This workshop aims to develop parents’ and carer’s understanding of self-harm and will cover: “What is self-harm?”, “Why does self-harm happen?”, and “What can I do to help?”.
Tuesday 21 January 13:00 PM - Book a place on Self-Harm workshop
Supporting Your Child to Manage Their Big Feelings
As our children and young people grow, they experience many changes in themselves and the world around them. During this time, our children and young people feel a variety of feelings such as anxiety, which they do not know how to manage. We break down what leads our children to have these feelings and ways in which we can support them to manage if they become overwhelmed.
Wednesday 22 January 12:00 PM - Book a place on Big Feelings workshop
Parenting the Anxious Adolescent – Part 1
This workshop is the second part of a two-part webinar which is delivered by the Under 18s Wellbeing Team part of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. It will provide additional strategies and aims to further develop understanding of anxiety. When signing up for this event, please also sign up for a “Parenting the Anxious Adolescent – Part 2”.
Thursday 30 January 18:00 PM (Part 1) - Book a place on Anxious A adolescent Part 1 workshop
Parenting the Anxious Adolescent – Part 2
This workshop is the second part of a two-part webinar which is delivered by the Under 18sWellbeing Team part of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. It will provide additional strategies and aims to further develop understanding of anxiety, so that parents feel more confident in supporting their young people.
Thursday 6 February 18:00 PM (Part 2) – Book a place on Anxious Adolescent Part 2 workshop
Supporting your Child/Adolescent With Anxiety
Aimed at parents and carers of children and young people aged 12-18, this workshop describes what anxiety is, why we experience anxiety, how it effects the brain and the body, how it affects what we do and don’t do. It then explains how to support your child/adolescent if anxiety is becoming a problem.
Wednesday 26 February 12:00 PM - Book a place on Anxiety workshop
Supporting Your Child/Adolescent with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This session covers: what OCD is, how it affects and impacts children and young people, how parents and carers can support their children/adolescents who might be struggling with OCD, and what further support is available.
Thursday 27 February 13:00 PM - Book a place on OCD workshop
Supporting Your Child to Manage Their Big Feelings
As our children grow, they experience many changes in themselves and the world around them. During this time, our children and young people feel a variety of feelings such as anxiety, which they do not know how to manage. We break down what leads our children and young people to have these feelings and ways in which we can support them to manage if they become overwhelmed.
Monday 24 March 12:00 PM - Book a place on Big Feelings March workshop
Building Understanding and Supporting Your Child With Tourette’s symptoms/TICS
This workshop, delivered by clinicians experienced in working with children and young people with Tourette’s/Tics Disorder, will provide information about Tourette’s and Tics in children and young people, dispel some common myths and give guidance on how you can best support your child/teenager as they negotiate the highs and lows of life with tics.
Tuesday 25 March 12:00 PM - Book a place on Tourette's workshop
To find out more and book a place on a visit nsft.uk/workshops or go to Eventbrite and ‘follow’ Psychology in Schools team (PST).
If you missed a workshop or want to watch it again you can find all of our previous parent/carer workshops on the NSFT Mental Health YouTube channel
Please also see our range of childhood neurodiversity parent and carer workshops which can be found in the next tab down.
Recorded workshops you may find useful
Building Resilience – Managing the Next Steps
This workshop explores what resilience is and why it is important for our children. The first part of this workshop focuses on five key components to wellbeing and resilience and suggests practical support for our children in each of these five areas. By strengthening resilience, children are more able to cope with the challenges in life, including change and transitions. Part two looks more closely at transitions, and how to support children to build the skills to manage transitions, as well as discussing practical considerations when preparing your child for a transition. It pays particular attention on how to support your child through holiday periods.
View recording of this two-part workshop online.
PST Parent/carer workshop: Supporting our Young People with Eating Difficulties - Explores eating difficulties young people maybe facing, to understand the way food can be used as a coping mechanism in times of stress, what a parent/carer can do that is helpful or not helpful, and identifying what the red flags are to take action to get help. View workshop
PST Parent/carer workshop: Tools to Manage Uncertainty and Building Resilience in our Young People - For parents/carers of who would like to learn strategies they can teach their children to manage difficult thoughts, feelings, and situations. It is also helpful for professionals who might work with young people. View workshop
PST Parent/carer workshop: Supporting our Young People with Anxiety - For parents of school aged children to help them understand anxiety better. The session covers: what is anxiety, why anxiety, how it effects the brain, how it effects the body, how it impacts on what we do and don’t do and how parents can support their children/adolescents with anxiety. Anxiety in Adolescence YouTube webinar
Teens and Tweens Wellbeing Webinars - A series of 20 mini webinars designed for Teens and Tweens (Tweenager – children from eight years of age) by Dr. Tina Rae (Educational and Child Psychologist), covering advice on managing stress and anxiety, perfectionist behaviours and negative thinking. Watch the webinars on YouTube.
