Coping Skills & Resilience

Resilience refers to the way in which young people can navigate and cope with the stressors and challenges they face.
Read the articles below for some tips on how to support your child develop healthy coping strategies.

Stress and teenagers - ReachOut ParentsIt is important for teens to learn how to healthily manage stress. Here’s how to support a stressed teen.

Coping skills, resilience and teenagers - ReachOut ParentsPositive coping skills will help your teenager be resilient and have good mental wellbeing.

Managing Emotions

Helping pre-teens and teenagers calm down

Behaviour, emotions, social development: gifted and talented children

Talking to your teen about disappointmentThere will be times when your teen feels let down or disappointed. Here are some tips for helping your child cope with and learn from disappointment.

The importance of Decision-Making skills!

Decision making skills; empowering your teen. - Helping KidsThis week I would like to talk about teaching decision making skills in continuation of the article named. I want my children to be happy.

When a child is faced with an issue, it is natural to want to jump in and solve it for them so that they can feel better quickly.

Although this comes from a place of care, it is so important that we equip young people with the skills they require long-term in order to navigate and resolve situations on their own.

Read this article by Helping Kids to discover how you may offer support to your child, while encouraging them to problem-solve and build up their confidence in their own decision-making abilities!

Support for your child

If your child wants to talk to someone other than the school, or you think added support would help, you may refer them to Kids Helpline. They can also call for free on 1800 551 800.

Headspace provides free support to young people (12-25 yrs). They are open 7 days a week for a 1-on-1 chat with trained clinicians. It’s a confidential, free and a safe space to talk about what’s going on. Young people can call (1800 650 890), use the online chat option or email the team at Headspace for support. More info here.

KYDS provides barrier-free, easily accessed counselling, provided by approachable, non-judgmental professionals for young people. No formal referrals from doctors or school staff are needed to see us. We are a free service and we will work with you for as long as you need. More info here.