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Canadian Health Network This is a Canadian website that has information on various topics. Click on "Behaviour" or "Child Development" for:
- ADHD
- Bullying
- Sexual Abuse
- Transition to school
- Raising children of different heritages
- Difficult behaviour
- Importance of community for children
- Loners -- what to do
www.canadian-health-network.ca
Canadian Mental Health Association This is also a Canadian site with pamphlets about:
- Children and family break-up
- Mental illness in the family
- Children and Attention Deficit Disorders
- Self-esteem
- Stress of parenting
- Children and their fears
- Youth suicide
- Difficult behaviour
www.cmha.ca/english/info_centre/mh_pamphlets/index.htm
Centre of Knowledge on Healthy Child Development This web site is dedicated to providing the latest and best information on child mental health problems and the influences that shape the developmental health and well-being of children and youth. www.knowledge.offordcentre.com/
ConductDisorders.com Maintained by a group of parents who are raising children who are oppositional and resistant to parenting. There goal for the website is to be a "soft place to land for the battle-weary parent." www.conductdisorders.com
Focus Adolescent Services Another US website with information on several disorders. Click on "Behaviour", "Emotional Health", "Adolescence", "Parenting" for:
- Bipolar Disorder
- Attachment Disorder
- Autism
- Conduct Disorder
- Drugs & alcohol – including several resources on specific
drugs, eg Ecstatsy, methamphetamine, cocaine, steroids, etc.
- Bullying & helping victims of bullies
- Gangs
- Self-injury
- Eating disorders
- Step Families
- Peer influence
- Healthy body image
- Abuse
- Teens and stress
- Depression
- Sexual behaviour
- Asperger’s Syndrome
- Adolescent sex offenders
This website also has some key questions for parents to consider to
help determine if their child is at risk. To access this from the main
page, click on “How is Your Child”
On many topics there are recommended books and other resources.
This site also has an excellent search function on the main page that
quickly locates numerous articles on many disorders. www.focusas.com
Health Canada on Medication-Counter-Indication Here is an important advisory site from Health Canada on medication-counter-indication. PCMH shares information, it is not our job to recommend. It is for families with their physician to decide what to do about medications. www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/tpd-dpt/index_advisories_e.html
Kids Health This is a US site that has many resources on topics including:
- Children and divorce
- Children and death
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Bullying
- Moving – supporting children during change
- How to talk to children about sex
- Alcohol and substance abuse
- Children using steroids
- Temper tantrums
- Teaching children tolerance
- Toilet teaching
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Homesickness
- Toddlers and separation anxiety
- Binge eating
- Encopresis
- Stuttering
- Speech delay
- Sportsmanship
- Teaching children self-control
- Dealing with a new sibling
- Pica
- Shoplifting
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Biting
www.kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/index.html
Mood Disorders Association of Ontario The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario is a non profit, self-help organization committed to improving the quality of life for people with mood disorders, their families, and their friends. We accomplish this through mutual support, information, and education. We work with our members, our volunteers, other mental health groups, and mental health professionals. Our goal is to create an open, responsive, inclusive community. Our members share their knowledge, support and hope. Through this process, we discover that.... “You are not alone”. www.mooddisorders.on.ca
Second Chance For Kids Second Chance for Kids is a self-help support group for grandparents raising grandchildren and also denied access grandparents. ca.geocities.com/secondchanceforkids/
The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO  Formed in 2004, the Centre strives to bring together everyone with an interest in improving the mental health of children and youth. When knowledge is shared and partnerships are formed among parents, teachers, mental health care service providers, researchers, knowledge brokers, policy makers and others, we will all be in a much better position to promote child and youth mental health and to meet their mental health care needs. www.onthepoint.ca
The Psychology Foundation of Canada This is a Canadian website that has several booklets on:
- Parenting
- Positive discipline approaches
- Guide for new fathers
- Links to other sites dealing with Learning Disabilities, stress
in children, rights of children
www.psychologyfoundation.org/psych/resources.asp
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