Handouts / Guides:

• Student Stress & Anxiety in College and Beyond
• Swipe Away Test Anxiety
• Reducing Test Anxiety

Workbooks:

• Your Best You: Managing Anxiety

Websites:

• Anxiety Canada:  Provides information and tools, such as the free MindShift app (iOS/Android), to help youth and young adults manage anxiety using step-by-step strategies.

• Anxiety Org: Provides up-to-date, easy-to-understand mental health information by working directly with distinguished doctors, therapists, scientists, and specialists.

Programs:

• BounceBack: Free skill-building program designed to help manage symptoms of mild to moderate depression and anxiety. You will learn skills to help combat unhelpful thinking, manage worry and anxiety, and become more active and assertive.

Videos:

• Anxiety Hurts

Apps:

• SAM: This iOS/Android app (UK) can help you understand what causes your anxiety, monitor your anxious thoughts and behaviour over time, and manage your anxiety through self-help exercises and private reflection.

• Assertive Communication using the WISH Strategy (video)
• How to be Assertive: Asking for What You Want Firmly and Fairly

• Assertive, Aggressive, & Passive Communication
• How to Communicate Under Stress

• Enough With The Fear of Fat (TED Talk)
  Kelli Jean Drinkwater confronts the fear of fat and how society is obsessed with body image
• Why Thinking You’re Ugly Is Bad For You (TED Talk)
  Meaghan Ramsey of the Dove Self-Esteem Project talks about the negative implications of low body image and self-esteem

• Fall In Love with Yourself
• Ten (10) Will Powers For Improving Body Image

Workbooks:

• Your Best You: Improving Your Mood

Websites:

• Informed Choices About Depression

Programs:

• Mood Gym: ($39 for one year subscription.) An Australian online self-help program designed to help you prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety. It is an interactive, online self-help book which teaches skills based on cognitive behaviour therapy.

Videos:

• The Science of Depression 
• What is Depression?

 Apps:

• MoodKit ($4.99 US): This iOS app was developed by two clinical psychologists to help you engage in mood-enhancing activities, identify and change unhealthy thinking, and rate and chart your mood across time.

• Moodnotes (free with in-app purchases): This US-based iOS app is a thought and mood journal that tracks your mood over time, helps you avoid common thinking traps, and more.

• Mood Mission (free with in-app purchases): This Australian iOS/Android app tracks your mood. When you tell MoodMission how you’re feeling, it gives you a tailored list of 5 simple, effective, evidence-based missions to improve your mood.

 

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Pros and Cons
• Distress Tolerance
  What to do when you are distressed

• National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)

 

• Six (6) Steps to Emotion Regulation (worksheet)
• Emotion Activity Log (worksheet)

 

• Healthy Relationships
• Is It Lust Or Is It Love? (TEDx Talk)
  Dr. Terri Orbuch, Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, discusses signals to distinguish between lust and love.
• Maintaining Meaningful Friendships

• Why We All Need To Practice Emotional First Aid (TED Talk)
  Psychologist, Guy Winch, talks about why we seek professional health for our bodies, but not our minds.
• Feeling Better Now

• PsychCentral
  Resources and articles with information about mental health conditions and screening quizzes.
• Mind Your Mind Life Journal
  An interactive place to journal your feelings

• Connecting to the Calm Within (guided meditation)
• All It Takes Is 10 Mindful Minutes (TED Talk)
  Mindfulness expert, Andy Puddicombe, talks about the amazing positive outcomes that refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day can do for you.

• Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Challenge
• Mindfulness Meditation Practice (poster)
• Use Your 5 Senses To Calm Down In 5 Minutes

• Perfectionism: A Double-Edged Sword
• The Perfectionist Trap (video)
• Are You A Perfectionist?

 

• The Little Book of Procrastination Remedies
  Explores why we procrastinate and four powerful solutions using a different mindset

• Procrastinating?
• How To Stop Procrastinating (video)

• The Power of Resilience (TEDx Talk)
• Emotional Resilience (video)

 

Handouts / Guides:

• Self-Care Toolkit for University Students

Workbooks:

• Just As I Am: The Practice of Self-Care & Compassion

Handouts / Guides:

• Getting Better Sleep
• Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
• Sleep Hygiene 101
• Helpful Tips To Help You Sleep

 

• Student Stress & Anxiety in College and Beyond
• Stress Busters-Practical Ways to Reduce Stress
• Transitions
• Relieve The Pressure of Stress
• Breathing Techniques
• Alternate Breathing
• How To Take A Deep Breath (pdf and flow chart)
• Everything Is Awful and I’m Not Okay

• Techniques to Manage Your Body’s Stress Response
• Three (3) Ways to Be Mindful
• How To Make Stress Your Friend (TED Talk)
  In Psychologist Kelly McGonigal’s talk, she discusses the idea of seeing stress as positive, and introduces the idea of how you think and how you act can change the way you see stress and change your overall health
• Stress Management (worksheet)

Videos:

• What Trauma Taught Me About Resilience (TEDx Talk)

Apps:

• PTSD Coach (free): This Canadian iOS/Android app can help you learn about and manage symptoms that often occur after trauma.