Reads, Websites & Apps
Anxiety & Depression
3 Ways to Tell if Worry is Helpful
5 Signs That Your Worry is Not Helpful
5 Tips for Dealing with Panic - the BRAVE Way
A Breathing Exercise to Calm Panic Attacks
Antidepressant Skills Workbook
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Anxiety Explained podcast episode from 10% Happier
Breathing videos from James Nestor website
Centre for Clinical Interventions Self Help Resources for Mental Health Problems
CES-D Questionnaire (Depression Screener)
Emergency Meditation for Panic Attacks
Healthy Emotion Regulation Strategies Pyramid
How Our Safety Behaviors Fuel Anxiety
How to Help a Child Struggling With Anxiety
NAMI Mental Health Medication Information
Apps
Breathe2Relax - Stress management tool
Calm Harm - Help for young people to resist or manage the urge to self-harm
Headspace - Meditation and sleep made simple
Mozilla Privacy Not Included info on privacy in mental health apps
Psyber Guide - Reviews of mental health apps
UCLA Mindful - Meditations and podcasts from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
Virtual Hope Box - Help with coping, relaxation, distraction and positive thinking
Books
All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
ADHD, What Everyone Needs to Know by Stephen Hinshaw & Katherine Ellison
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin Seligman
Barking to the Choir: the Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel Siegel
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety & OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents by Eli Lebowitz
Depression: A Teen's Guide to Survive and Thrive by Jacqueline Toner and Claire Freeland
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling Lives by Rachel Simmons
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens by Laura Kastner and Jennifer Wyatt
Helping Teens Who Cut (Second Edition) by Michael Hollander
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood by Jean Twenge
List of Positive Psychology books from the Authentic Happiness website, developed by the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Mindfulness on the Go by Jan Chozen Bays
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic by Michael Tompkins and Katherine Martinez
No Drama Discipline by Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development by Ann Masten
Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Interactive Guide by Elizabeth McMahon
Overcoming Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Comprehensive Behavioral Treatment for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking by Charles Mansueto, Sherrie Mansfield Vavrichek and Ruth Goldfinger Golomb
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive or Disturbing Thoughts by Sally Winston and Martin Self
Parenting a Teen Who Has Intense Emotions: DBT Skills to Help Your Teen Navigate Emotional and Behavioral Challenges by Pat Harvey and Britt Rathbone
Parenting in the Screen Age: A Guide for Calm Conversations by Delaney Ruston
Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein
Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson
Putting Children First: Proven Parenting Strategies for Helping Children Thrive Through Divorce by JoAnne Pedro-Carroll
Resilience, Chapter 6: Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure by Harvard Business Review
Raising Resilient Children by Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein
Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace by Sharon Salzberg
The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno
The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points by Alice Boyes
The Book of Hygge by Louisa Thomsen Brits
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris
The Hair-Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania by Fred Penzel
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Intuitive Eating Workbook by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
The Mindful Brain by Dan Siegel
The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine
The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens by Jennifer Shannon
The Worry Cure by Robert Leahy
The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity and Resilience in Your Child by Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion by Jia Tolentino, Chapter “Always Be Optimizing”
What to Do When Fear Interferes by Claire Freeland and Jacqueline Toner
Willpower by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
Wise Minded Parenting: 7 Essentials for Raising Successful Tweens + Teens by Laura Kastner and Kristin Russell
Child & Adolescent Development
A Guide to Gender Identity Terms
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development
International Dyslexia Association
The Brain With David Eagleman Video - Stressed Teens
Why Teenagers Reject Parents’ Solutions to Their Problems
Crisis Intervention & Suicide Prevention
Crisis Text Line, Text HOME to 741741
Direct Advice for Overwhelming Urge to Kill Self or Use Opioids
Do You Wish You Could Go to Sleep and Never Wake Up?
Five Action Steps for Communicating with Someone Who May Be Suicidal
I Don’t Want Another Family to Lose a Child the Way We Did
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800) 273-TALK (8255), Lifeline Crisis Chat
Now Matters Now Young Ambassador: Tips and Advice from People Who’ve Been There
San Francisco Child Crisis Services (415) 970-3800
San Francisco Psychiatric Emergency Services (415) 206-8125
The Trevor Project - Trevor Lifeline (866) 488-7386, Trevor Chat
Happiness/Well-Being/Life Satisfaction
Authentic Happiness website from the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania
Is “Happy Ever After” Just a Myth?
Questionnaire Center - University of Pennsylvania Authentic Happiness website
The Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Future of Work Should Mean Working Less
Learning and Attention Issues
For Better Health, Try Fitness from the Inside Out
Four Japanese Rules to Live Past 100
How to Get More Pleasure Out of Everyday Life
Insufficient Evidence That Medicinal Cannabinoids Improve Mental Health
On Children by Khalil Gibran
One Key to Being Happy When You’re Single
Ten Things I’ve Been Meaning To Say To You by Jason Reynolds
The Guest House by Rumi
To Write Love on Her Arms Self Care Ideas
San Francisco Mental Health Resources for Children & Adolescents at UCSF
UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center
UCSF Langley Porter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services
UCSF Langley Porter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services - OCD and Tics Clinic
UCSF Star Center for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Trichotillomania/Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors