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Video Resources:

• Lionheart YouTube Video Series: Supporting Mental Health for Adolescent Mental Health
• Therapists Weigh In: Parenting through seasons of (sometimes slow) growth
• Therapists Weigh In: Getting back to parenting fundamentals
• Therapists Weigh In: How parents can manage their own stress & anxiety

Eating Disorder Information for Caregivers:

• A Lionheart Foundation Resource for Parents and Caregivers – please contact info@lionheartfoundation.ca to request a copy
• Video: Help for Caregivers Affected by Eating Disorders – Root Psychology

Books:

• Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape – Peggy Orenstein
• Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity – Peggy Orenstein
• Calmer, Easier, Happier Screen Time – Noel Janis-Norton
• The App Generation – Howard Gardner, Katie Davis
• The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood & Family Relationships in the Digital Age – Catherine Steiner Adair
• Glow Kids. How Screen Addiction is Hijacking our Kids – Nicholas Kardaras
• How to Break Up With Your Phone – Catherine Price
• Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges – Mona Delahooke
• Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids – Mona Delahooke
• Mind – Daniel Siegel
• Aware – Daniel Siegel
• Becoming Aware – A 21-Day Mindfulness Program for Reducing Anxiety and Cultivating Calm – Daniel Siegel
• No-Drama Discipline: The Whole Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
• The Power of Showing Up – Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
• Parenting From the Inside Out – Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell
• Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD – Eli R. Lebowitz
• What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers – Adele Lafrance & Ashley Miller
• Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self – Thema Bryant, Ina King, et al.
• Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide – Thema Bryant-Davis
• Anxious Child Anxious Parent – By Lyons & Wilson
• This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings – By Julia Samuel
• Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood – By Lisa Damour
• The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired – By Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
• 7 Simple Steps to UNDERSTANDING YOUR TEENAGER (Just Kidding, That’s Impossible) – By Danelle Spence
• The Whole Brain Child – Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
• I Still Love You: Nine Things Troubled Kids Need From Their Parents – By Michael Ungar
• Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers – By Gabor Mate
• The Conscious Parent – By Shefali Tsabary
• Untamed: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood – By Lisa Damour
• Getting Past Your Past – By Francine Shapiro
• The Opposite of Worry: The Playful Approach to Childhood Fears and Anxieties – By Lawrence J. Cohen
• What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work – Dr. Adele LaFrance and Dr. Ashley Miller
• Understanding Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Guide to Mental Health Disorders for Family and Friends – Carlin Barnes

Online Resources:

• https://www.heysigmund.com/
• https://www.drdansiegel.com/
• https://edsna.ca/
• https://nedic.ca/
• Emotional Focused Family Therapy – https://www.mentalhealthfoundations.ca/efft
• https://neufeldinstitute.org/resources/
• http://www.worrywisekids.org/
• https://www.anxietycanada.com/articles/parent-child/
• https://www.copingcatparents.com/Resources_for_Kids
• https://childmind.org/article/what-to-do-and-not-do-when-children-are-anxious/
• https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/depression.html
• https://www.psycom.net/help-kids-with-anxiety

Apps:

• Calm
• 10% Happier
• Anxiety Release
• Mindshift
• Colorfy
• What’s Up – A Mental Health App
• Nature Sounds Relax and Sleep
• Shine
• Breathwrk
• AntiStress Anxiety Relief Game
• Moodnotes
• The Mightier Parent App

Books:

• The Body Keeps the Score – By Bessel van der Kolk
• Waking the Tiger – By Peter Levine with Ann Frederick
• Doing Psychotherapy – By Robin Shapiro
• Easy Ego State Interventions – By Robin Shapiro
• The Highly Sensitive Child – By Elaine Aron
• Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach – By James Lock, Daniel le Grange, W. Stewart Agras, and Christopher Dare
• Internal Family Systems Therapy – By Richard Schwartz

Online Resources:

• https://www.mentalhealthfoundations.ca/efft
• https://www.nicabm.com/
• https://emdrcanada.org/