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RxAnxiety
Children and youth with anxiety frequently experience excessive worry, nervousness, and irrational fear making it difficult to enjoy life. Below is a list of resources that can be helpful in understanding those experiences as well as how to support those around you.
Web Content
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Anxiety Canada
Anxiety Canada provides information about anxiety for Canadians. Youth, parents, and professionals have access to many resources, including videos, articles, and a self-help section.
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Kidshealth.org
Kidshealth.org has a wealth of information about anxiety written for kids, teens, and parents. Search anxiety to be taken to many relevant easy to understand articles.
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Worry Wise Kids
Worry Wise Kids is on a mission to
improve the quality of life for anxious children and their families by providing parents, educators and mental health professionals with comprehensive, user-friendly information on the full range of anxiety disorders.
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National Institute of Mental Health
For an excellent overview of anxiety disorders check out the page by the National Institute of Mental Health.
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MyHealthAlberta
MyHealthAlberta has a wealth of information about anxiety. Simply search the term 'Anxiety' in the search bar to be taken to many articles, among which is a detailed topic overview
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CMHA – Canadian Mental Health Association
CMHA provides information on a variety of mental health topics. Their resources also include Peer Support Canada and Workplace Mental Health. You can find local resources on Calgary's CMHA page.
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Mind Your Mind
An Ontario based website that has mental health information about anxiety and other illnesses. They link to the Calgary Distress Centre for local support.
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Kids Help Phone
The Kids Help Phone has articles about different health questions kids might have including anxiety. Kids and teens can always chat with a Crisis Responder 24/7 by texting CONNECT to 686868 or by phoning 1-800-668-6868.
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About Kids Health - Anxiety: Overview
The Hospital for Sick Children has a child health information website. There you can find a page with information about anxiety.
This page is also available in French, Arabic, Chinese Simplified, and Urdu.
For information about obsessive-compulsive disorder check out the OCD Information Prescription
Book List
These resources are available to borrow in the Family Library. You can also check with your local library to see if they are available.
You can download, print, and share this PDF or our Destiny Collection list.
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A childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety.
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A childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety.
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Little piggies slow down and calm down thus making it easier to deal with whatever comes their way. This endearing book explains and teaches meditation techniques to children.
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What to Do When You Worry Too Much : A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety
Teaches school-age children cognitive-behavioural techniques to reduce and overcome anxiety, fears, and worry, through writing and drawing activities and self-help exercises and strategies.
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This book challenges our instincts about how to help fearful kids and offers a concrete plan with seven key principles and exercises to change the children's and the parental patterns of thinking and behaving.
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Helping Your Anxious Child : A Step-By-Step Guide for Parents
This guide offers proven effective skills based in cognitive behavioural therapy.
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Playing with Anxiety : Casey's Guide for Teens and Kids
Casey knows all too well how worry can interrupt fun, ruin school, and take control of a family. Casey tells stories, offers exercises, and describes her Solving the puzzle approach.
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The Worried Child : Recognizing Anxiety in Children and Helping Them Heal
This guide presents various types and symptoms of anxiety disorders and provides detailed lists, skill exercises, sample dialogues, and case studies, including a chapter and tutorial written specifically for children.
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Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child
This book describes anxiety-caused behaviour patterns and gives advice on how to help children cope with anxieties, including information on anxiety problems unique to youth.
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Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child
This book describes anxiety-caused behaviour patterns and gives advice on how to help children cope with anxieties, including information on anxiety problems unique to youth.
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The Anxiety Workbook for Teens : Activities to Help You Deal With Anxiety and Worry
Created for teens, this workbook provides simple activities to deal with the day-to-day challenges anxiety brings. Teenagers will learn strategies to recognized and cope with anxious thoughts throughout their lives.
Contributors
Thank you to our friends from Calgary Public Library, Mood, Anxiety, and Psychosis Services and Healthy Minds/Healthy Children - Outreach and Continuing Education for their contributions.
Current as of: Feb 15, 2023