Parent Resources

A young person might experience grief with the loss of a loved one, a pet, a known character or famous personality or even the loss of the family home, or changes in living situations, family separation, or loss of a friendship.

This page helps link you to resources that may be useful if your daughter is nervous about returning to school after holidays or is experiencing school refusal.

here are lots of wonderful resources available, most of them free, to help you guide your anxious child

Variation in our children’s traits, strengths and weaknesses is normal. If you are concerned that your daughter is struggling in a particular area or with a particular skill, despite behavioural intervention (such as tutoring), and your child’s teachers agree that she is struggling, speak with your GP, or one of our psychology team about a psycho-educational assessment.

Some level of parent-teen conflict is natural and healthy. Conflict occurs because your daughter is growing into an independent and responsible person with her own perspective and preferences.

Over a million Australians are currently living with an eating disorder. Eating disorders are not a lifestyle choice or a cry for attention. Eating disorders can be hard to detect because they cannot be identified by someone’s size or shape (that is, the person is not always extremely slim).

For most of us, when we hear our daughter is upset following conflict with a friend, our instinct is often to jump to attention and go into “fix it” mode, call the other child’s parent or call the Dean and ask for an intervention.

It is very common (and normal) for teenagers to experience periods of low mood, low self-esteem, moodiness, and irritability. Teens might cry, sleep a lot, have fluctuation in appetite, and hide in their room.