AI and Mental Health for Parents: Practical Guidance and Guardrails

CouchLoop

Wellness between the moments

FundaMental Health

Making mental health care accessible

A Practical, Parent-Friendly Guide to AI and Your Child’s Wellbeing

AI is rapidly shaping how kids learn, socialize, and seek support, especially around their emotional wellbeing. Parents feel this shift every day but often lack clear, practical guidance. This two-day live cohort gives families a simple framework for understanding how AI shows up in mental-health spaces, how to spot what’s safe versus risky, and how to build age-appropriate guardrails that actually work.

Hosted by Fundamental Health and powered by the clinical and AI expertise of CouchLoop, the course blends tool demos, real scenarios, and parent-friendly explanations—no technical background required.

You’ll leave with a clear approach to evaluating tools, communicating with your child, and partnering with schools and community groups to support healthier digital habits.

What you’ll learn

This course will help parents to confidently understand where AI helps, where it harms, and how to keep a human-in-the-loop.

Understand where AI can genuinely help and where humans must stay in the loop
Learn the spectrum from traditional therapy to hybrid tools to fully automated chatbots
Know how to make sense of the claims AI tools make

Learn how to identify trustworthy, evidence-aligned AI tools
Understand how to catch signs of overconfidence, hallucination, or misleading advice
Develop a clear method to assess any AI tool your child encounters

Walk away with concrete safety guidelines tailored to pre-teens and teens
From privacy and data-sharing to healthy habits and supervision patterns, you’ll know exactly what to monitor and how to intervene