Adolescent Mental Health
Articles on peer pressure, self-esteem, bullying, and other aspects of adolescence. |
Cyber Knowledge and Emotion
Take a ride on the E. Motion Express and explore your feelings through interactive stories and games. |
For Teens Only: Balancing Lifestyle Changes
Advice includes handling emotional, physical, intellectual, and social growth out of childhood toward adulthood. |
Girl Zone: Unseasonable Temperatures
Learn about how you deal with anger in this quiz. Explains the range from hot tempers to icy silence and what's healthy and not healthy about each. |
GirlZone: Feeling Fried
Take this quiz and learn if you have trouble saying what you think and what's on your mind. Offer tips for wimpettes, u-go-girls, and wombats. |
Going to a Psychologist, Psychiatrist, or Therapist
What's it like to go to a psychologist, psychiatrist, or therapist? Learn why kids go and what kinds of things they do when they're there. |
GravityTeen
Personal stories from teens about self-esteem, pregnancy, abortion, and drugs. Includes inspirational thoughts and quotes. |
Headroom: Cubby House
Learn what mental health is and how things like bullying and stress affect your feelings. Play games and puzzles. [Games require free Flash download.] |
Headroom: Lounge
Find information on a range of mental health issues, chat with other teenagers, and view the photo gallery. |
Headspace.org: Young People
Explains what mental health is, how to handle stress and information on problems like depression, self-harming, and eating disorders. Includes links to health agencies and Youthline in Auckland, New Zealand. |
Helping Friends in Trouble: Stress, Depression, and Suicide
Describes healthy and unhealthy ways teens react to stress, warning signs of depression, and suicide danger signals. |
Helping Kids Grow
The kids and teens on George Street teach about handling bullies, making friends, moving to a new school, homework problems and respecting other people. |
Kid's Aid
Site for and by kids for grief support and peer support. Stories, poems, artwork, and an online support group. |
KidsHealth: Dealing With Anger
Everyone gets angry, and anger can even be a good thing. Learn how to use and deal with strong feelings. |
KidsHealth: Five Steps for Fighting Stress
Article explains how to get support, stay calm, express feelings, try to solve the problem, and be positive. |
KidsHealth: Nightmares
Tells what nightmares are, why people have them, and what to do about them. |
KidsHealth: Shyness
Learn how to be less shy. Also find out why being shy is sometimes a good thing. |
KidsHealth: Talking About Your Feelings
Learn more about how to talk to parents and other adults about how you feel about things. |
KidsHealth: The Story on Self-esteem
Explains why self-esteem is so important, how kids get it, and what kids who have low self-esteem can do. |
KidsHealth: The Story on Stress
Learn how to manage stress when you are worried or uncomfortable about something, and you feel angry, frustrated, or afraid. |
KidsHealth: Welcoming a New Baby Into Your Family
Tells what to expect before the baby comes, who this new person is, and when happens the baby comes home. |
KidsHealth: What Kids Say About: Worrying
Find out what worry means and the top eight things kids ages 9 to 13 worry about. |
KidsHealth: What Kids Who Are Moving Should Do
Moving isn't easy for anyone. Scared, excited, and angry are just a few of the feelings kids may have about moving. |
MindZone
Information on assessing personal strengths, learning to recognize warning signs, and facts about mental health disorders. |
Moozie
Meet Moozie the Cow and learn about kindness. Play games and puzzles, color pages or share a picture, help Moozie write a story, and see pictures of the farm. |
Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along
It's not easy to get along. Help Maria and her friends solve their problems peacefully. |
Psychotherapy
Encyclopedia.com article about what psychotherapy is. |
ROAR
Offers programs to help disadvantaged youth in Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. Includes role models, finding inspiration, support links, and information about sex and sexual abuse. |
Shykids.com: Kids/Tweens
Offers information and help with shyness for kids ages 4 to 12. Includes books, making friends, how to be more confident, and ways to start a conversation. |
Shykids.com: Teens
Provides resources and information about shyness for teens. Includes books, Q and A, exploring talents, making friends, and building confidence. |
Stress: Who Has Time For It?
Answers questions about what it is, if it's bad, why it feels bad, dealing with stress, and things that don't help. |
Teens and Therapy
Answers common questions that teenagers have about psychotherapy. |
Wanna Bet?
A magazine for kids about the dangers of gambling. |
Watch Your Mouth
Interactive quiz helps young people discover if they're saying things to themselves that they wouldn't say to anyone else in the world. |
What's Normal?: Overcoming Obstacles and Stereotypes
Companion to the PBS broadcast explores the meaning of "normal" by introducing stories of teens who live with social or physical challenges and work to defy stereotypes. |
Why Am I In Family Therapy?
Explains family therapy to children and teens. |
Why Do We Get Nervous?
Explains why kids feel anxious sometimes and tells what a phobia is. |
You Are a Special Person
Tips on how to enjoy relationships with family and friends. |
Young Lives Under Pressure
Explores types of teen stress. Includes exams, parents, bullying, family problems, and ways to cope with each kind. |
Youthline
Free New Zealand youth helpline for kids and teens ages 12 and up. Includes helping ideas, stories, FAQs, information, resources and map of Youthline Centres locations. |
YouthLine
Offers free and confidential information, advice and counselling to young people under 25 in and around Bracknell, Berkshire, UK. |
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