Pathway for parents or carers of children from preteen to teenager
Join our introductory learning pathway for all parents, carers and grandparents to help you understand your child’s behaviour and emotional wellbeing, considering the impact of the pandemic and how it may have affected your child.
Pathway stages
Bitesize stages for daily steps towards confident parenting and connected relationships.
1. You and the pandemic
1.1 Welcome!
1.2 The pandemic and you
1.3 The positive side
1.4 The negative side
1.5 Your teenager or teenagers
2. Your teenager and the pandemic
2.1 The pandemic through their eyes
2.2 Anything they liked?
2.3 How did COVID affect them?
2.4 Relationships
2.5 Rupture
2.6 Rupture and repair
2.7 Rupture and repair in everyday life
2.8 COVID and your teenager
3. What’s next
3.1 What’s next
3.2 Congratulations and feedback
3.3 Acknowledgements
About this pathway
In just three, bitesize stages, this pathway introduces ideas about teenager’s emotional wellbeing and highlights the significance of the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic during adolescence. This pathway offers helpful insights to support your teenager and nurture their emotional wellbeing.
Understanding the impact of disrupted relationships and experiences on your teenager may help you understand their emotional health now. You may have noticed that their interests have changed, that they are more anxious, or you might be worried about their social life. Along this pathway, our clinical child psychologists, psychotherapists and health practitioners will introduce you to ideas on children’s emotional wellbeing and understanding their behaviour.
This pathway is a gentle starting point for understanding your child’s post-pandemic experiences and can be followed by our more in-depth pathways, such as Understanding your child or Understanding your child with additional needs, for further guidance and support.
This pathway is for all parents, grandparents and carers of children of secondary school age. Our pathway, Understanding the impact of the pandemic on your child, is tailored to younger children.
92% learners said they found the pathway helpful
90% learners said they would recommend the pathway to friends and family
84% learners said the pathway made a difference for them
“Very useful just to be able to reflect on the pandemic and the impact it had on us all.”
Parent from the pathway
“The pathway helps you think more about your teenage children and realise that covid came at a difficult time for some, they needed more support and understanding.”
Parent from the pathway
“It makes you think about things from a different point of view – there were some that I noticed myself and some that I can now see other points of view.”
Parent from the pathway
“Very informative and enabled us as a family to reflect on our experiences sharing issues and concerns during the pandemic and on our recovery journey.”
Parent from the pathway