Links

www.psychologyfoundation.org/psych/resources.asp

This is a Canadian website that has several booklets on:

• Parenting
• Positive discipline approaches
• Guide for new fathers
• Links to other sites dealing with Learning Disabilities, stress in children, rights of children

www.canadian-health-network.ca

This is a Canadian website that has information on various topics.
Click on “Behaviour” or “Child Development” for:

• ADHD
• Bullying
• Sexual Abuse
• Transition to school
• Raising children of different heritages
• Difficult behaviour
• Importance of community for children
• Loners – what to do

www.cmha.ca/english/info_centre/mh_pamphlets/index.htm

This is also a Canadian site with pamphlets about:

• Children and family break-up
• Mental illness in the family
• Children and Attention Deficit Disorders
• Self-esteem
• Stress of parenting
• Children and their fears
• Youth suicide
• Difficult behaviour

www.kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/index.html

This is a US site that has many resources on topics including:

• Children and divorce
• Children and death
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Bullying
• Moving – supporting children during change
• How to talk to children about sex
• Alcohol and substance abuse
• Children using steroids
• Temper tantrums
• Teaching children tolerance
• Toilet teaching
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Homesickness
• Toddlers and separation anxiety
• Binge eating
• Encopresis
• Stuttering
• Speech delay
• Sportsmanship
• Teaching children self-control
• Dealing with a new sibling
• Pica
• Shoplifting
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Biting

www.focusas.com/

Another US website with information on several disorders. Click on “Behaviour”, “Emotional Health”, “Adolescence”, “Parenting” for:

• Bipolar Disorder
• Attachment Disorder
• Autism
• Conduct Disorder
• Drugs & alcohol – including several resources on specific drugs, eg Ecstatsy, methamphetamine, cocaine, steroids, etc.
• Bullying & helping victims of bullies
• Gangs
• Self-injury
• Eating disorders
• Step Families
• Peer influence
• Healthy body image
• Abuse
• Teens and stress
• Depression
• Sexual behaviour
• Asperger’s Syndrome
• Adolescent sex offenders

This website also has some key questions for parents to consider to help determine if their child is at risk. To access this from the main page, click on “How is Your Child”

On many topics there are recommended books and other resources.

This site also has an excellent search function on the main page that quickly locates numerous articles on many disorders.