BC Children's Hospital
Supporting Children With School Attendance Challenges: A Resource For Elementary School Professionals
A companion document to the webinar “School Anxiety & Attendance Challenges: Practical Strategies for Elementary School Professionals” including the theoretical foundation of school avoidance and framework towards successful school attendance.
Early Psychosis Intervention
How to Cope as a Caregiver or Friend for Someone Experiencing Psychosis
With a diagnosis, family and friends may experience relief and a sense of hope – realizing that psychosis can be effectively managed.
Qmunity
Support for Parents: QMUNITY
When young folks have questions about gender or sexuality, they are often looking for support. This section of QMUNITY's website offers FAQs and resources for parents and caregivers.
Dr. Ross Greene
The explosive child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children
Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding "explosive children" who are lacking some crucial skills and require a different approach to parenting.
BC Children's Hospital
Transcript: Re-Release: Self-Harm: What Families Need to Know
This episode transcript from the Kelty Centre's Where You Are podcast, you will learn a greater understanding of why youth self-harm and what parents can do to support their child.
BC Children's Hospital
Types of Therapy - Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some general FAQs on types of therapy, with answers. If you have specific questions about the therapy prescribed to you or your child, ask the therapist you are seeing.
BC Ministry of Children & Family Development
Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Video Series and Resources
The aim of these prevention and early intervention videos and resources is to reduce stigma, increase mental health literacy, and build capacity of parents & caregivers, educators and others who are supporting youth experiencing suicidal and self-harm behaviours.
Michelle Garcia Winner and Stephanie Madrigal
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.
Susan M. Pollak
Self-compassion for parents: Nurture your child by caring for yourself
This empathic resource will help you let go of constant self-judgment and treat yourself with the same kindness and caring you strive to offer your kids.
BC School Centred Mental Health Coalition
Anchoring Resilience in Turbulent Times
This webinar created opportunities for dialogue about how we can move from reacting to reframing resistance to manifesting resilience. Together, we can plan for the next stage of our journey.
BC Children's Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
Navigating Technology Use Across Adolescence: Supporting Healthy Development & Well-being
Natasha Parent, PhD (developmental psychology researcher) discusses technology use across various developmental stages. Learn about some of the benefits and risks of tech use on child mental health and well-being, along with ways that parents and caregivers can support their child's healthy relationship with technology as they grow.
