Separation Anxiety
Website providing information and resources about teen mental health. Formerly known as Teen Mental Health with Dr. Stan Kutcher and colleagues.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Excellent resources on various anxiety disorders, as well as specific disorders such as Generalized Anxiety, Specific Phobia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-compulsive disorder and Panic Disorders.
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums
Streaming video version of documentary about anxiety. Anxiety motivates us to get things done, but for some people, anxiety is not a driver. For many children, anxiety disrupts everyday life, interfering with their ability to make friends or go to school.
Through interviews with experts and three young people, this compelling documentary outlines the causes, symptoms and treatments for anxiety disorders and emphasizes the importance of early identification and intervention. In all of these stories there is hope.
2004, 56 min 31 s
Knowledge Network Corporation
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos
April Sullivan, M.A. Psychology, from the IWK Children's Hospital in Halifax, NS gives a talk on strategies for parents to help their child cope with anxiety and fears. Available for free streaming online.
IWK Children's Hospital
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Movies and videos
Started in 2000, MindMasters is a program that gives adults who work with or live with children, short, proven activities to do with children to help them learn positive living skills.
Adults teach children all sorts of skills - tying their shoes, reading a book, riding a bike, cooking a meal. These practical skills help children to learn to manage the workd. There are other skills that children need to learn too. How to relax in a dentist's chair. How to channel feeling of anger so no one gets hurt. How to focus on a task to get it done. How to keep upbeat when life seems hard. We all need these skills to excel at living, to make the most of opportunities life offers to us. The program was created by Dr. Terry Orlick with the assistance of graduate students at the University of Ottawa and feedback from children, social workers, nurses, teachers and counsellors who have been doing the activities with children and evaluating their success for years.
These positive-living skills activities have been assembled in the Mindmasters program and are being made available through the Positive Living Skills for Children project. You will find that the activities are suitable in all sorts of settings, particularly with children aged 4 to 12. You will find the music that supports the teaching of positive-living skills here.
Child and Youth Health Network for Eastern Ontario
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Printed materials including handouts, brochures and books
Providing information about anxiety.
Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety
Audience: Public (www.ementalhealth.ca)
Resource type: Websites including blogs, support forums