Course descriptions and summary content explained for Parents/Carers

Free online courses for all parents, carers, grandparents and teens for residents of Northern Ireland.

This course explains how and why you are so important to this baby, whether you are the mother, father, partner, grandparent or birth partner. 9 Modules available 24/7 take course any time and place.

Online courses for parents and families of babies receiving neonatal care. Postnatal course uniquely tailored by clinical psychologies in partnership with health professionals and parents. To support you to develop your relationship with your baby.
Easy to follow modules, access online anytime, anywhere

Dr Davy Evans, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, introduces two new online postnatal courses, 'Understanding your preterm or sick baby'. Designed with the Solihull Approach for parents of babies experiencing neonatal care, highlighting the importance of close-connected relationships.

This course gives you information about your baby's brain development and physical and emotional development. Online course for residents of Northern Ireland 'Understanding your baby' 11 Modules Available 24/7 Take any time. Any place. It integrates the traditional information given on a postnatal course with this new approach to developing your relationship with your baby.

This course allows you to experience a taste of what to expect before engaging in one of our main courses Understanding your child or Understanding your child with additional needs.

A free online course focusing on effective communication techniques, reading your child's behaviour & understanding their feelings and how to nurture your child's emotional health.

Popular online course about being the best parent, grandparent or carer you can be. Covers from 0-19 years. Award-winning content you can trust; written by Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Health Visitors and NHS Professionals.

This course covers how your child develops, understanding how your child is feeling, tuning into what your child needs, difference styles of parenting and why is sleep in important.

This course accompanies our main courses Understanding your child or Understanding your child with additional needs and comes in two parts - Part one for an introduction to mental health and wellbeing, then complete main course, and Part two for further understanding of anxiety, depression and more.

Find out what happens to the brain as a child hits adolescence in this short course.
See how this explains some of the changes in their behaviour that you may have noticed.

Check out these two online courses for teenagers only on understanding your brain and New understanding your feelings that includes the emotional effects of the Covid19 pandemic

Relationships can be difficult, complicated, fun, satisfying, exciting, annoying, bring out the best in us, bring out the worst in us.
We are often in one, but we don't often spend much time on them. So here's the chance!

Poster sharing all Free online courses available for all residents of Northern Ireland along with access arrangements

By understanding how your child's brain develops and responds emotionally, you can better support their needs as they navigate the big milestones in school.

Online Training Brochure - This brochure outlines training modules on understanding the impact of adversity and trauma informed practice currently available to support practitioners across Northern Ireland. All courses contained in this brochure are free for practitioners, funded by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland

These courses for professionals were designed as Solihull Approach Advanced training to introduce more depth following the Solihull Approach 2 Day Foundation training. However, all of them can be undertaken without having completed the Foundation training first.

Each of these three courses provides 3.75 CPD hours.

There are four Solihull Approach online courses for ‘Understanding your wellbeing in high pressure environments’: for the Police, Firefighters, Health Care and Ambulance workers and practitioners working in Social Care.

The Solihull Approach’s comprehensive, evidenced-based offer for UK family hubs enhances emotional wellbeing for children and young people’s mental health, as well as improving staff satisfaction.