Mindfulness Teen
Please enjoy this inspiring video featuring McKenna, an incredible mindful teen, produced by the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. McKenna shares her experiences with mindfulness and the MARS-A (Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents) program at BC Children’s Hospital. The Centre for Mindfulness would like to express our deep gratitude to our generous donors and the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation for partnering with us and making this work possible!
Managing Stimulant Medications in Children and Adolescents
This document is to provide parents and caregivers with a better understanding on stimulant medication and how to manage the side effects so your child can gain
the most benefits.
Off-Label Medication Use in Children and Adolescents
This document is to provide parents and caregivers with a better understanding on off-label medication use and how it may be effective in treating a single condition or multiple conditions.
Self-Injury and Recovery Resources
These listing of resources was developed to advance your understanding of self-injury among youth and adults. With a wide variety of topics, all have been translated into user friendly materials for individuals who injure as well as those who live with, care about, and work with them.
Preparing Children and Youth for Hospital Procedures
This webpage provides resources to help children and youth understand what will be happening to them during their visit to the hospital and during different procedures.This includes resources for children with anxiety, autism, and other mental health challenges.
A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders
This Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders is divided into four parts to discover what are concurrent disorders, the impact on families, treatment and support, and the journey to recovery.
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child
Features a step-by-step method for parents that experience problems with their children; discusses seven myths of parenting; and offers advice for solving common issues with children in different age groups, from toddlers to adolescents.
The Defiant Child
Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" 5- to 12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley's approach is research based, practical, and doable--and leads to lasting behavior change. Vivid, realistic stories illustrate what the techniques look like in action
Getting Over OCD: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life
This workbook helps OCD sufferers use the powerful techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) - the most effective treatment for the disorder--to achieve lasting recovery. Examples and stories of people with a wide range of obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviors illustrate the 10 steps of the program and assure readers they are not alone. Numerous worksheets and other practical tools can be downloaded and printed for repeated use.
Understanding OCD: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Giving a full overview of childhood OCD and discussing all major treatment options, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, clinicians and mental health professionals need in order to understand and treat childhood OCD. It covers origins, symptoms and related illnesses and explains how OCD is diagnosed. The book also suggests what to do when treatment doesn't work, and how to help manage OCD in children at school and in the home.
The Quest for Rest
Looking for simple techniques to revamp your family's bedtime routine and wake up to a happy, healthy child? Discover the latest science-based sleep tips that will benefit your entire family. The Quest For Rest contains must-have tools for families struggling with the symptoms of kids who aren't getting a good night's sleep.
Enemy Pie
It was the perfect summer until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became Enemy Number One. Luckily, Dad has a surefire way to get rid of enemies -- Enemy Pie. But one of the secret ingredients is spending an entire day with the enemy! Grades 2-4 and older readers.