MENTAL HEALTH

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ADHD

A Parent's Guide to ADHD

Parenting a Child with ADHD

How Girls with ADHD are Different

Positive Parenting Strategies for Parents of Children with ADHD

Autism

A Parent's Guide to Autism from Child Mind Institute

A Parent's Guide to Autism from Autism Speaks

100 Day Kit for Young Children / 100 Day Kit for School-Aged Children These kits provide information to help families get through the first steps of an autism diagnosis, including learning about Autism and how to access services that your child needs.

"10 Things that helped me during meltdowns as an Autistic Child"

Behavioral Disorders

Breaking the behavior code

What is Conduct Disorder?

What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?

What is Oppositional-Defiant Disorder?

What is Intermittent Explosive Disorder?

Parents' Guide to Problem Behavior

Guide to Types of Behavior and Mental Health Treatments

Communication Disorders

What is Social Communication Disorder?

What is Selective Mutism?

Executive Functioning Skills

Executive Functioning and Learning

Why “Goldilocks” Parenting Helps Build Executive Functioning Skills

Helping Kids who Struggle with Executive Functions

Executive Functioning Activities for 3- to 5-Year-Olds

Executive Functioning Activities for 5- to 7-Year-Olds

Executive Functioning Activities for 7- to 12-Year-Olds

Executive Functioning Activities for Adolescents

What is working memory?

How to help kids with working memory issues

General

Guide to Mental Health Specialists

How metacognition can help kids

How to help kids who are too hard on themselves

How to help kids learn to fail

Why do kids have trouble with transitions?

How can we help kids with transitions?

How to give kids effective instructions

How can we help kids with self-regulation

7 Myths about Child Mental Health

Learning Disorders

Specific Learning Disability Basics

Parents' Guide to Dyslexia

How to talk to your child about learning and thinking differences

Mood Disorders

What is Bipolar Disorder?

What is Persistent Depressive Disorder/Dysthymia?

What is Major Depressive Disorder?

A Parent's Guide to Teen Depression

How to help your depressed teenager

Suicide Prevention

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Parents' Guide to OCD

VIDEO - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Kids and OCD - The Parent's Role in Treatment

Parenting Concerns

How can I get my kids to do chores?

When Siblings Won't Stop Fighting

Healthy Limits on Video Games

Why are Kids Different at Home and at School?

What NOT to do when your child is having a tantrum

How to help children calm down

Why kids lie and what parents can do about it

Parents' Guide to Problem Behavior

A Parents' Guide to Teenagers and Sleep

Strategies to make homework go more smoothly

Three common parenting traps and how to avoid them

Self-Injury

What is Self-Injury?

Self-Injury - Information for Parents

What parents need to know about kids who self-harm

How are self-injury and suicide related?

Social-Emotional Learning

A Parent's Guide to RULER - Learn more about the Social Emotional Learning program in Farmington Public Schools

Teaching Your Child to Identify and Express Emotions

A Parent's Resource Guide to Social and Emotional Learning

Social and Emotional Learning Activities for Families and Educators

Social Emotional Learning Resources for parents and teachers

Substance Abuse

6 Parenting Practices to Help Reduce the Chances Your Child will Develop a Drug or Alcohol Problem

Parents' Guide to Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

Growing up drug-free; A parent's guide to prevention

Talking to your middle school-aged child about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs: A 10-step guide for parents

Tourette's Disorder

What is Tourette's Disorder?

Tics and Tourette's: What to do (and not do) if your child develops a tic

Trauma

What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Children's Response to Trauma - A handout for parents and teachers

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) in Connecticut

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