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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Heroin

Information about what Heroin is, how long it lasts, how it makes you feel, if it is addictive and dangerous, and long term effects. 

BC Children's Hospital

Compass

Through phone and web-based consultation, the Compass team supports community care providers with information, advice and resources they need to deliver appropriate and timely care to children and youth experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges.

BC Children's Hospital

Basics of ADHD: Webinar Recording

This webinar on the Basics of ADHD focuses on the history of ADHD, how ADHD is diagnosed, its prevalence, causes and myths, ADHD assessment, co-occuring conditions, and ADHD from the preschool to post-secondary years.

Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders

Emotion Coaching for Meal Support: A Brain Hack for Decreasing Resistance

Clinicians have struggled too with trying out different meal-support strategies over the years – from no-pressure-dinner-talk to more coercive techniques in the name of health and healing. In fact, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), and in particular the module on Emotion Coaching, was developed over a decade ago in response to this very dilemma. Turns out that when it comes to meal support, practical suggestions, including setting limits, are equally important as validation and emotional support – but it’s the order of operations that seems to be the most critical (more on that later). Now, therapists, nurses and clinicians worldwide employ these strategies in eating disorder programs across levels of care and teach and empower parents and caregivers to do the same.

 

School Mental Health Ontario

Finding Calm – Body Scan Exercise

This video guides you through a body scan visualization exercise. It can teach you to soothe your body and mind; calming your emotions when you feel overwhelmed or stressed.

Where You Are Podcast

Through real stories, expertise, and practical tips, this podcast helps families promote their mental health and wellness, navigating important topics to meet you where you are in your journey.