INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES
WEBSITES
Behaviour and Development - Caring for Kids - Canadian Paediatric Society
Information for parents with children with behavioural concerns.
VIDEOS
Play Your Way to Positive Mental Health - Alberta Health Services
Video about how to use play for positive mental health and wellbeing.
Problem Solving with Teenagers: Demonstration - Raising Children Network
Video demonstrating a problem-solving approach to resolve conflict amongst teenagers.
INFORMATION HANDOUTS
Complete Guide to Managing Behaviour Problems - Child Mind Institute
Video demonstrating a problem-solving approach to resolve conflict amongst teenagers.
Behaviour Challenges of School-Aged Children - Alberta Health Services
Information to help parents to begin to understand their child’s needs and behaviours and suggest ways to help.
BOOKS
The Explosive Child - Ross Greene, Ph.D.
Book about an approach to understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children.
Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child and You Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life - Stuart Shanker, D.Phil.
Book about a method to unlock parents' understanding of kids’ – and parents’ – most troubling behaviour by understanding the stressors that are behind the behaviour.
These resources were gathered and reviewed by a mental health professional as part of the Building Service Capacity for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Primary Care and Pediatrics project in partnership with Alberta Health Services, the Edmonton Zone Primary Care Networks, and CASA Mental Health.