Wellbeing
Advice For Parents
Links
Chat Starter
Chat Starter Is a Department of Health initiative supporting parents to start conversations about mental health with their teens.
Kids Help Line
Phone: 1800 55 1800 Phone: 24/7
Youth Beyond Blue
Phone: 1300 22 4636 Phone: 24/7
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Headspace
Mental Health Line
Phone: 1800 011 511 Phone: 24/7
Useful Apps
Clear Fear
About: The fear of threat, or anxiety, is like a strong gust of wind. It drags you in and makes you want to fight it or run away. Instead, face your fear with the free Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions.
Cost: Free Available: App Store & Google Play
Reach Out Worry Time
About: Reach Out Worry Time interrupts repetitive thinking by setting aside your worries until later, so you don't get caught up in them and can get on with your day. This means you can deal with worries once a day, rather than carrying them around with you 24/7
Cost: Free Available: App Store
Reach Out Breathe
About: Reach Out Breathe helps you reduce the physical symptoms of stress and anxiety by slowing down your breathing and your heart rate with your iPhone
Cost: Free Available: App Store
Smiling Mind
About: Smiling Mind is a meditation app for young people. It has been developed by a team of psychologists and uses mindfulness to boost calmness, contentment and clarity. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to help manage stress, resilience, anxiety, depression and improve general health and wellbeing.
Cost: Free Available: App Store & Google Play