In this collection developed by the Kelty Centre, you will find a list of recommended resources for parents/caregivers to learn more about behavioural challenges including websites, online tools, guides, books and provincial support services. This list was developed in partnership with professionals from the BC Children's Mental Health Program, and is intended to be a starting point to learn about behavioural challenges. For more resources, visit our resource library.

Website

Children & Difficult Behaviour

Canadian Mental Health Association

Offers general information on children displaying difficult behaviours with tips for parents and caregivers on how to help their child.

Website

Lives in the Balance

Ross Greene

This non-profit organization helps you understand behaviour problems in children and promotes Collaborative Problem Solving.

PDF

Behaviour Problems in Children and Adolescents

BC Children's Hospital

Fact sheet on behaviour problems in children and adolescents, including types of behaviour problems such as oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, causes, and treatment options.

English
Website

Facts for Families: Conduct Disorder

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

This resource sheet provide information for families about Conduct Disorder.

Book

Superflex: A superhero social thinking curriculum (2008)

Michelle Garcia Winner and Stephanie Madrigal

This comic book is aimed at elementary school children to teach them how they can use strategies to self-regulate some of their own wayward, not quite so flexible thoughts and behaviours.

 

Support Service

Confident Parents: Thriving Kids

Canadian Mental Health Association

Worried about your child's anxiety or behavioural challenges? Struggling to get through daily activities with your child? This program helps parents support their children aged 3-12 to manage either anxiety or behaviour challenges, through phone-based coaching anywhere in BC.

Support Service

Triple P – Positive Parenting Program

The Tripe P Positive Parenting Program provides a toolbox of ideas. You choose the strategies you need. You choose the way you want to use them.

Support Service

Connect Parent Group

Connect is an evidence-based 10-week manualized group program for parents and alternate caregivers of pre-teens and teens who struggle with significant behaviour problems.

Support Service

Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre

BC Children's Hospital

Information about the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre.

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Need urgent help?

If you, your child, or someone you care about is having a mental health or substance use crisis:

  • Call 911 or go to your local hospital’s emergency room if you are in need of immediate help
  • Call 1-800- SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) anytime if you are concerned about someone who may be considering suicide

These are a few examples of situations when you should seek immediate help:

  • The child or youth is thinking about or trying to end their life
  • The child or youth is experiencing sensations that aren’t real and/or beliefs that can’t possibly be true
  • The child or youth is unable to care for themselves, and it’s putting them at risk of serious harm
  • The child or youth is experiencing an alcohol or drug overdose
  • The child or youth is taking a dangerous combination of substances (like medications and alcohol)

For non-urgent support options, explore our Ask Kelty Mental Health tool. You’ll find answers to common questions families have about accessing mental health supports and services in BC for their child or youth.