Links

ConductDisorders.com

Maintained by a group of parents who are raising children who are oppositional and resistant to parenting. There goal for the website is to be a "soft place to land for the battle-weary parent."

www.conductdisorders.com

Town Hall Ontario

All parents please click on this website to discover when the "town hall meetings for citizen input" for the Ontario government will be in your area . This is one way we can have our voice heard. We do need to let the Government know the issues and needs around community children's mental health services..

www.townhallontario.gov.on.ca

Mood Disorders Association of Ontario

The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario is a non profit, self-help organization committed to improving the quality of life for people with mood disorders, their families, and their friends. We accomplish this through mutual support, information, and education.

We work with our members, our volunteers, other mental health groups, and mental health professionals. Our goal is to create an open, responsive, inclusive community. Our members share their knowledge, support and hope. Through this process, we discover that.... “You are not alone”

www.mooddisorders.on.ca

Health Canada on Medication-Counter-Indication

Here is an important advisory site from Health Canada on medication-counter-indication. PCMH shares information, it is not our job to recommend. It is for families with their physician to decide what to do about medications.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/tpd-dpt/index_advisories_e.html

Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office

The Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office (PPAO) was established in 1983 to protect the civil and legal rights of inpatients in the current and former Ontario provincial psychiatric hospitals. As a rights protection agency with a "client first" philosophy, the PPAO is dedicated to promoting patients' rights in Ontario by providing individual and systemic advocacy, rights advice and education. The PPAO undertakes these initiatives to improve the quality of care and life of all individuals with a mental illness.

www.ppao.gov.on.ca

The Psychology Foundation of Canada

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.psychologyfoundation.org/psych/resources.asp

Canadian Health Network

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.canadian-health-network.ca

Canadian Mental Health Association

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

Kids Health

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

Focus Adolescent Services

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.

www.focusas.com