Websites for self-help or seeking support
Samaritans (Hong Kong)
24hr hotline 2896 0000
Because we know emotional distress does not discriminate or choose its time, we are always here for our callers, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Because suicide continues to be one of the leading causes of death in Hong Kong, we have to do as much as we can, despite limited resources, to raise emotional health awareness and to encourage people in need to seek emotional support.
MindHK (Hong Kong)
Mind Hong Kong (Mind HK), a registered S88 charity (91/16471) committed to improving awareness and understanding of mental health in Hong Kong. We provide online resources and support, based on global best practice, to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem.
St. John's Cathedral Counselling Service (Hong Kong)
St. John's Cathedral Counselling Service (SJCS) is an affordable, evidence-based, professional, resource-rich and multi-lingual counselling service in Hong Kong with over 30 qualified counsellors, therapists, clinical social workers and psychologists. We have been providing a variety of counselling services since 1997 to include art and play therapy, pre-marital and relationship counselling, substance abuse and internet - sex addiction treatment, grief counselling, anger and stress management, sex education and human sexuality, empowering care for HIV and cancer patients and CBT for anxiety-mood disorders, panic attacks and social phobias.
Reach Out (Australia)
ReachOut is Australia’s leading online mental health organisation for young people and their parents. It offers practical support, tools and tips help young people get through anything from everyday issues to tough times – and the information offered to parents makes it easier for them to help their teenagers, too.
ReachOut has been changing the way people access help since launching as the world’s first online mental health service nearly 20 years ago. Everything we create is based on the latest evidence and designed with experts, and young people or their parents. That’s why our digital self-help tools are trusted, relevant and easy to use.
Beyond Blue (Australia)
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/home
Beyond Blue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live.
RUOK? (Australia)
An Australian based suicide prevention charity that aims to start life-changing conversations.
Kids Helpline (Australia)
https://kidshelpline.com.au/
The School Of Life
https://www.theschooloflife.com/
The School of Life is a global organisation dedicated to developing emotional intelligence.
Positive Education
Positive Education brings together the science of Positive Psychology with best practice teaching to encourage and support individuals, schools and communities to flourish. We refer to flourishing as a combination of ‘feeling good and doing good’. Positive Education focuses on specific skills that assist students to strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote mindfulness and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Institute Of Positive Education
Eating disorders - Supported Recovery Asia
Welcome to supportedrecoveryasia.com, the new site to link sufferers of Eating Disorders living in central Asia with the latest and most relevant resources to help in their recovery journey.
There are so many great sites out there with a wealth of information about the latest treatments, self-help strategies, and research on eating disorders. However, it is often hard to decide where to go first and how to integrate certain strategies into life here in central Asia.
BBC Health and Wellbeing
Articles and Videos on current wellbeing issues
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/category/health-wellbeing
Winner of the 2018 Royal Society prize.
A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior
The brain creates every feeling, emotion, and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists believed our brains were fully developed from childhood on. Now, thanks to imaging technology that enables us to look inside the living human brain at all ages, we know that this isn't so. Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, one of the world's leading researchers into adolescent neurology, explains precisely what is going on in the complex and fascinating brains of teenagers--namely that the brain goes on developing and changing right through adolescence--with profound implications for the adults these young people will become.
Drawing from cutting-edge research, including her own, Blakemore shows:
How an adolescent brain differs from those of children and adults
Why problem-free kids can turn into challenging teens
What drives the excessive risk-taking and all-consuming relationships common among teenagers
And why many mental illnesses--depression, addiction, schizophrenia--present during these formative years
Blakemore's discoveries have transformed our understanding of the teenage mind, with consequences for law, education policy and practice, and, most of all, parents.
An ever growing bank of resources to help yourself or someone else. Based on strategies from the 5 ways to wellbeing
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