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Reach Out Usa: Trust Issues
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses the importance of trust, how it can be difficult to trust others, rebuilding trust, and how to learn to...
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works: Discovery Health: Interpreting Your Dreams
This Discovery site provides a nice concise overview on dreams and dream interpretation on easy-to-read pages. Content includes a brief overview of what dreams are and why they occur, the history of dreams and their effect, what certain...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: What's Happening to Your Body?
This lesson plan site focuses on the changes that adolescents go through and delves into their nutritional, physical, and mental health needs.
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Reach Out Usa: Gratitude, Forgiveness and Happiness
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses how practicing gratitude and forgiveness can help one be happier.
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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.
Other
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...