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Reach Out Usa: Managing Expectations
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for understanding what expectations are and how to deal with them.
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Reach Out Usa: Having Difficult Conversations
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page offers tips for how to handle sharing difficult news with someone.
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Reach Out Usa: More Tips for Communicating Effectively
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page offers seven tips for communicating well with others.
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Reach Out Usa: Fighting With Your Sibling
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses why siblings may not get along and offers suggestions for handling conflict with a sibling.
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Reach Out Usa: Friendships and Peer Relationships
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for how to deal with friendship issues, bullying, and peer pressure.
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Reach Out Usa: How Can I Develop Coping Strategies?
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for how to cope with challenging situations and events.
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Reach Out Usa: Resolving an Argument or Disagreement
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for how to handle a disagreement.
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Reach Out Usa: When Parents Are Fighting: Dealing With a Breakup or Divorce
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for how to handle your parents splitting up or divorcing, and what to expect.
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Reach Out Usa: Arguing With Your Parents or Guardians
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has tips for understanding conflict with parents or guardians and how to communicate with them.
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University of Virginia Health System: Anorexia
Helpful information on the eating disorder, anorexia, including facts on causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Arizona State University
Jiae: Indian Juvenile Delinquency So Different?
This site from Journal of American Indian Education shows the 1967 article calls for a focus on the commonality of Indian and non-Indian people, when dealing with mental health issues, rather than treating them like two different problems.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Kids and Eating Disorders
Find out about the problem of eating disorders. Is it in to be thin? There's a lot of information here. Be sure to look at the tabs to the left for additional resources.
Mental Health America
Mental Health America: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
A fact sheet presenting basic information on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder including characteristics, causes, symptoms, treatments, and co-occurring illnesses.
Mental Health America
Mental Health America: Personality Disorders
Article offers a definition of personality disorders while discussing the causes, treatment, and different types, each having their own behaviors and symptoms.
WebMD
Web Md: Schizophrenia
A very detailed description of schizophrenia. Tells exactly what it is, the many symptoms, characteristics of people who have schizophrenia, and treatment. Links are provided for additional information.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Cheating
Have you ever noticed a classmate's eyes wandering to another students paper during a test? Have you ever been tempted to peek at the answers on another person's test? This article tells you how to handle cheating, inside and outside the...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Homework Help
The "I don't want to do homework blues" have probably hit you before. Homework is important, we all know this, but sometimes it is a struggle to get it finished. If you have problems doing your homework and want help, or if you want to...
TES Global
Tes: Emotions
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint presentation contains art pieces that deal with different emotions. Students will analyze the art pieces and the associated emotions.
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Kids Helpline: Empowering Young People to Ask for Help
Being able to ask for help when you need it is an essential skill. This article discusses how to overcome the challenges kids and teens face when asking for help.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Trauma
Trauma can destroy a child's sense of self-worth and confidence in their abilities. Developing new skills, such as balance and focus, can help build it back. These resources offer a variety of ideas to help build a child's self-esteem...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Dorothea Dix
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887 CE), most noted for her report to the Massachusetts legislature about the inhumane conditions under which the mentally ill are held in prisons. Her report led...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Dorothea Dix 1802 1887
Best know for her work with the mentally ill. Dorthea Dix also was very involved in the work of prison reform. Here, you can read her fascinating life story.
WebMD
Medicine Net: Schizophrenia
This site from MedicineNet.com gives some great information about the mental disease, schizophrenia. Describes what it is, information on treatment, side affects, and causes along with answering several commonly asked questions about the...
Diffen
Diffen: Psychopath vs. Sociopath
Start learning about two anti-social personality disorders with the comparison chart for psychopathy and sociopathy. Then extend the learning with an article and video about these mental illnesses.
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