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.
Children & Difficult Behaviour
Offers general information on children displaying difficult behaviours with tips for parents and caregivers on how to help their child.
Lives in the Balance
This non-profit organization helps you understand behaviour problems in children and promotes Collaborative Problem Solving.
Behaviour Problems in Children and Adolescents
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.
Facts for Families: Conduct Disorder
This resource sheet provide information for families about Conduct Disorder.
The Explosive child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children
Dr. Greene’s Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack.
Superflex: A superhero social thinking curriculum (2008)
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.
Confident Parents: Thriving Kids
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.
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.
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.
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
Information about the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre.