Helpful Tips
Resources to help you here and now
Internet Resources
Provides tools and resources for children, youth, and adults, such as the free Mindshift app.
Find a counsellor in your area. Read the latest edition of insights on the BCACC quarterly journal.
Information about schizophrenia, services, and support groups.
Register for BounceBack, a free skill-building program designed to help adults and youth 13+ manage low mood, mild to moderate depression, anxiety, stress or worry.
Canadian Mental Health Association – BC Division
Identifies services and provides information about mental health for youth and adults.
Christian Recovery International
Brief articles and book references on a broad range of topics such as addictions, co-dependency, spiritual abuse.
Michelle Weiner-Davis, author and marriage therapist, provides information to help individuals and couples who are facing challenges in their relationship.
Provides online screening on mental health topics such as anxiety, sleep challenges, addictions, and body image issues. Here to Help also provides information to help you learn to support a loved one.
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Information on trauma for survivors.
Christine Padesky’s CBT website with a number of inspirational videos plus free worksheets.
Provides wellness workshops and counselling services.
Take the self-assessment questionnaire or read professional journal articles on internet addiction and treatment.
Information on mental health disorders.
Provides coaching and classes on chronic pain, chronic (health) disorders, diabetes, and cancer. It also provides regular newsletters covering health related topics.
Lists meetings and provides general information.
Self-help Books
The following is a list of book based resources that you may be able to access via your local library or bookstore.
Mind Over Mood, Second Edition
Cognitive Behaviour therapists, Christie Padesky and Dennis Greenberger, have developed practical ways for individuals to identify their problematic patterns of thinking, emotional reactions, and behaviours. They provide straight forward worksheets, as well as methods designed to change negative automatic thought patterns to positive ones.
Michelle Weiner-Davis debunks the myth of divorce as the solution for marital discord. She then presents strategies to enliven marriages.
Learn to cultivate what you need to live whole heartedly -let go of imperfection and the things which hold you back. Brené Brown presents 10 guideposts to living with courage, compassion, and connection.
Scott Stanley, marriage and family therapist and researcher, illustrates typical communication and relationship challenges while providing coaching on how to address these.
Terrence Real’s “Us” is about realizing wholeness as a couple. “Us” is on the cutting edge of the science of relationships. It should be manditory reading for every couple at every stage of relationship!
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
Tamar Chansky describes common sources of anxiety, sleep problems, separation from parents, fears and phobias. She goes on to give guidelines to remedy each of these.
Follow Your Heart without Losing Your Mind
John Van Epp originally published this book under the title “Avoid Falling for a Jerk.” This book is a must read for people who are in a dating relationship or are engaged. It explores attraction to and selection of life partners, family dynamics, and questions to ask before you make a serious commitment (or serious mistake). Key components of relationship attachment, according to John Van Epp, including knowing, trusting, and being able to rely on your partner, as well as commitment and intimacy.
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