Parents course: Enjoy Your Baby (EYB) (for parents/carers of a new baby up to 12 months)

This is a self-directed online course for use by new parents of a baby under 12-18 months old.
Each module typically takes 15-20 minutes or so to complete.

The core sessions of the course provide many of the key CBT-based skills needed for life change.

How often should I complete a module or how many?
We recommend you work through all the modules, completing one every few days will allow you the opportunity to put into practice what you are learning.

Using the worksheets: practical worksheets can be completed by printing them on paper, or by answering the questions electronically if you prefer such as in notes on your phone. The worksheets help you apply what you are learning, make plans and review your progress.

Working with a support worker: Some people using this course may be receiving support from a health visitor, practice nurse, IAPT worker or other health or social care worker including Third sector staff or volunteers. If so, use this support to help you stay on track, get answers to any questions, and encouragement to apply what you are learning.

Enjoy Your Baby is available as a self-directed online course. A license is also available to provide access to Supporter Resources to deliver a series of classes: The Enjoy your Baby course.

Translations: The previous (1st edition) version of the book – Enjoy your Baby is available in Welsh and also Urdu.

How to provide access to clients: Practitioners/supporters can deliver the self-directed course by purchasing single use log in codes individually to pass to your patients/clients. Or a group code valid for, 10, 50, or an agreed number of patients/clients if you prefer.

About the Author:
Dr Chris Williams is Emeritus Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Past-President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). His main area of interest is making Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches accessible to all.
He is an internationally recognised researcher, teacher and trainer.

He has worked mostly with colleagues in perinatal care in the UK and Canada to produce other resources including the Enjoy Your Baby book, classes and online course, and the Overcoming depression: A Five Areas approach with Dr Roch Cantwell and Perinatal Nurse Consultant Karen Robertson.
Credits: we wish to thank the perinatal services NHS Greater Manchester for their input and comments on an earlier version of these materials. The first edition of the course translated into Welsh was funded by the Two in Mind project in Wales, led by Mind Cymru, and funded by the Welsh Government. In addition, Dr Michelle Haring worked with Professor Williams in Canada to produce the 1st edition of Enjoy Your Baby classes.