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We all respond to the world around us in different ways. This can be seen in our emotions and behaviour. Often, those responses are helpful – it’s useful to fear stepping out into the road when the cars are going by, for example. Emotions can alert us to a problem in our environment.

Sometimes emotional responses go beyond what is helpful and become a problem in themselves. People start to feel anxious all the time, even when there isn’t anything to be afraid of. Sometimes the things that we do in order to feel better – like drinking, or isolating ourselves – can make problems worse. We get stuck, because the things we are doing to try to feel better end up making the situation more complicated.

Mental health professionals define something as a mental health problem when it causes a problem for a person and stops them being able to live their life in the way that they want. Emotions and behaviour are seen as symptoms of the mental health problem. This can include unusual experiences such as hearing voices or paranoid thinking.

The issues which are defined as mental health problems include anxiety, depression, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and substance misuse. In our webinars about mental health problems, you’ll hear about evidence-based techniques to help you and your child get unstuck and to make the changes you or they want to make in their lives.

These webinars are not therapy and should not be used as a replacement for therapy. They are educational self-help webinars, using psychological theory to help you help yourself and your child.

Courses on Mental Health

EOTAS: What to Expect

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RECORDED COURSE 58 mins £20 (half price)

EOTAS is a provision for students whose needs cannot be met within a traditional school setting, and is a bespoke, individualised education. In this course, Dr Abigail Fisher, educational psychologist, will help you understand the process, benefits, potential costs and unexpected challenges of EOTAS.  

Helping Your Autistic Child With OCD

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 16 mins £20 (half price)

Dr Naomi Fisher will explain OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and how it can interact with autism. She'll describe how parents and children can fall into OCD traps, and what to do to get out. She'll give you some ideas to help your child, even if they themselves don't think that there's a problem.

Helping Your Autistic Child With Transitions

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 23 mins £20 (half price)

Life is full of transitions - and many autistic children find them really difficult - which means that their parents find them hard too. Life can feel like walking on eggshells. Dr. Naomi Fisher will help you gain a new understanding of why transitions are so hard, what makes it worse - and how to help.  

Helping Your Child with Learning Disabilities with Anxiety

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 29 mins £20 (half price)

Many children with learning disabilities are anxious - but those around them might not recognise this as anxiety. They're unlikely to say 'I'm worried' but instead will show us their feelings through their behaviour. Behaviour which can be hard to manage. How can parents recognise anxiety in their children, and what do you do then? In this course, Naomi explains how anxiety works and why it can be a problem for children with learning disabiltiies. She'll give you practical ideas to reduce anxiety and help your children thrive. It is suitable for parents of children with learning disabilities or global developmental delay.

Helping Your Autistic Child With Anxiety

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 7 mins £20 (half price)

Many autistic children are anxious. Dr Naomi Fisher, clinical psychologist, will help you understand some of the reasons and will show you some ways you might be able to support your child. You will leave with a better understanding of what might be going on, and some ideas as to how you as the parent can help. 

Helping Your Autistic Teen with Anxiety

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 22 mins £20 (half price)

Why are so many autistic teenagers anxious - and what can parents do to help? Gain understanding, insight and practical tips in this mini-course by Dr Naomi Fisher. 

Helping Your Autistic Child with Trauma

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 33 mins £20 (half price)

Living with your autistic child is like walking on eggshells. They sleep badly, they cling to you and they have extreme reactions to seemingly small events. They are very scared of particular things, and you aren't really sure why.   Naomi will explain how trauma affects the brain - and why understanding trauma in autism requires us to look beyond major traumatic events to understand the person's individual experience.

Helping Your Child with Anxiety (under 8s)

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 30 mins £20 (half price)

In this practical and engaging course, Dr Naomi Fisher, clinical psychologist, will help you understand the developmental changes of early childhood. She'll show you how anxiety works, and how parents can make a difference. You'll understand your child better, and therefore be better able to help.  

Helping Your Child with Severe Anxiety

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 5 mins £20 (half price)

Some children and young people seem to withdraw from life. Their anxiety becomes so severe that anything which might have helped seemed to make things worse. They may find it hard to come out of the bedrooms or to leave the house. Parents are left not knowing what to do next. In this mini-course, Naomi will help you to think about severe anxiety through the lens of the nervous system. She’ll give you some practical ideas to help your child even if they don’t want to talk about how they are feeling. 

Burnt Out by School?

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 40 mins £20 (half price)

Things have gone wrong at school for your teenager, and now it’s like they have nothing left.  They have lost their sense of what made life worth living.  You don’t know how to help, and sometimes it seems like whatever you do makes things worse. Naomi will explain how burnout happens and what the process of recovery looks like.

After School: Helping Your Autistic Child Move On from School Trauma

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RECORDED COURSE 2 hours 8 mins £20 (half price)

In this mini course Naomi will talk about school trauma, how it occurs, what makes it worse and how parents can help. You'll leave with a new understanding of what has gone on for your child, why they are still affected by the past, and some ideas of what to do. This course will combine psychological theory with practical strategies and ideas.

My Child Is Not Fine At School

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 46 mins £20 (half price)

Your child isn’t happy at school. They are protesting in the mornings, or having meltdowns in the afternoons. They tell you that they don’t want to go, and you feel torn between them and the school. School are telling you that the answer is to keep pushing, as you don’t want to reinforce avoidance or behaviour. It’s starting to dominate everything about your family life, and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.

Burnout - A Guide for Teenagers

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 10 mins £20 (half price)

This mini-course is for teenagers to watch themselves. It explains burnout, why our bodies go into burnout, what that process looks like and how we can recover. It is broken down into small sections and has subtitles.  Featuring Chloe from Me Just Me.

Helping Your Child Recover From Trauma And Loss

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 49 mins £20 (half price)

Dr Naomi Fisher, clinical psychologist, will share with you how trauma and loss affect children and what their parents can do to help. With various handouts to download and extra audios, this course is a comprehensive and practical resource to help you support your child.

Dr Naomi Fisher  Trauma, Mental Health5-11 yrs, 11-19 yrs

The Art of Low Demand Parenting: Emotions

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 30 mins £15 (half price)

Updated for 2024! Some children are highly sensitive to emotions and pressure, and parenting them takes a whole new skillset. Dr Naomi Fisher and Eliza Fricker explain why many mainstream parenting approaches can make things worse and how to parent to help your child learn to manage their emotions.

Dr Naomi Fisher,  Eliza Fricker  Low Demand Parenting, Mental Health5-11 yrs, 11-19 yrsParents

The Art of Low Demand Parenting: What About Me?

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RECORDED COURSE 1 hour 30 mins £15 (half price)

How can you make space for yourself, whilst also doing the best you can for your children? How can you make sure your own needs matter, when your child's needs are so high that they can't be put aside? Is it even possible for life to feel more sustainable?

Dr Naomi Fisher,  Eliza Fricker  Low Demand Parenting, Mental Health5-11 yrs, 11-19 yrsParents

Books on Mental Health

Psychology of Mental Health

Psychology of Mental Health
BOOK Paperback Published on May 1, 2024

A clear and engaging introduction to the psychology of mental health, which takes account of a range of perspectives and illustrates how psychologists work in the field today. Psychology of Mental Health will place our current understanding of mental health in context, both historically and culturally. It will discuss various models for understanding mental health, research on causes of mental health problems, and will introduce recent psychology-led alternatives to diagnosis.

Dr Naomi Fisher  Mental HealthProfessionals

Latest blog posts on Mental Health

30 Sep

What's in a name? The ever-changing psychology of mental health

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BLOG POST 30 Sep 2024

In May, I published a undergraduate primer on the Psychology of Mental Health with the Oxford University Press. I’ve been working on that (short) book for five years. In it, I try to introduce to undergrads some of the complexity of working in mental health, and particularly the way in which this has changed in the last twenty years.

30 Sep

What's in a name? The ever-changing psychology of mental health

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BLOG POST 30 Sep 2024

In May, I published a undergraduate primer on the Psychology of Mental Health with the Oxford University Press. I’ve been working on that (short) book for five years. In it, I try to introduce to undergrads some of the complexity of working in mental health, and particularly the way in which this has changed in the last twenty years.

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