When Something's Wrong - Strategies for Teachers & Ideas for Families

Healthy Minds Canada

Presenting Healthy Minds Canada's When Something's Wrong Resource Handbooks

Nowhere is the need more acute for rational, scientifically sound and clearly presented information appropriately delivered, than in the arena of youth mental health promotion.
— Dr. Stan Kutcher, Lead author, "When Something's Wrong - Strategies for Teachers"

When Something’s Wrong: Strategies for Teachers (new 2015 edition!)

When Something's Wrong: Strategies for Teachers - Healthy Minds Canada

Our When Something's Wrong - Strategies for Teachers is a quick reference guide of useful classroom strategies to help elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators understand and assist students with mood, behaviour or thinking problems.

The handbook, now in its fifth printing (2015) and up-to-date with the DSM-V, is made up of sections covering Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Mood Disorders, Substance and Addictions Disorders,  Eating Disorders, Impulse and Conduct Disorders, Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Disorders, Schizophrenia, Self-Harm, and Resources. Each disorder section describes the disorder, lists behaviour characteristics, and offers strategies for coping, and relevant resources.

When Something’s Wrong: Ideas for Families

When Something's Wrong - Ideas for Families is a quick reference guide of useful coping strategies and resources for parents and caregivers to help them with children who have mood behaviour or thinking problems.

This handbook includes twelve sections covering Managing Problem behaviour in Children, Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders, Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Eating Disorders, Impulse Control Disorders, Mood Disorders, Schizophrenia, Suicide, Tourette Syndrome (TS), Working with your Health Practitioner, and Resources.

When Something's Wrong: Ideas for Families - Healthy Minds Canada