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Emotional Health Introduction Some of the links below will be useful in starting your research on Emotional Health. Make sure that you evaluate the information you find by evaluating the quality of the website. Emotional Health - Brochure Assignment Examples of Brochures Brochure 1 - Brochure 2 The Internet Resources Canadian Health Network - General information on healthy living for youth. The BC Health Guide Program - Offers information and advice on health issues. Emotional & Mental Health sites American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 'Facts for Families' fact sheets: extensive index. B.C. Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information - Put together by the following groups: Anxiety Disorders Association of BC, Awareness and Networking Around Disordered Eating, BC Schizophrenia Society, Canadian Mental Health Association's BC Division, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, FORCE Society for Kids' Mental Health Care, Mood Disorders Association of BC Body, mind and soul - Youngandhealthy.ca is a youth website from the CAAH. In the body, mind and soul section, you'll find information on a wide range of topics, including stress, puberty, drunk driving, tattoos, sport injuries & tobacco. British Columbia Schizophrenia Society - Guest speaker recommended site. International Association for Adolescent Health - Fact sheets (.pdf) on various issues regarding adolescent health. More complex reading level. Evaluating Health Information websites. - How to determine if a health-related website is good - a checklist from the Canadian Health Network. Factsheets on mental health topics - Glossary from AACAP - Glossary of symptoms and mental illnesses from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Short definitions of various disorders. HereToHelp.bc.ca - Here you'll find quality information, personal stories of hope, and resources you can use to make better decisions about mental health or substance use issues. Kelty Dennehy Foundation - Set up by the Whistler parents in memory of their son Nemours Foundation - Organized list of reviewed fact sheets directed at teens. Links included. Psychosis sucks - Early psychosis intervention program. Fraser Health Authority. Guest speaker recommended site. Feeling Sad Bipolar Disorder NIMH - Bipolar Disorder Mayo Clinic - Bipolar Disorder Teens Health - Bipolar Disorder Depression Depression in Teenagers HelpGuide - Teen Depression Better Heath Channel - Depression Teenagers Grief/Loss (Friend/family/pet) Hospice: Helping teenagers cope with grief Talking with teens about death Griefworks.BC: Teen Grief Support and resources TeensHealth: Grief and Death Mental Health ADHD TeensHealth: ADHD - How it can affect teenagers NetDoctorUK: Teenagers with ADHD ADHDInfo: Teens and ADHD LDOnline: The world's leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD Anxiety - Stress Coping with stress Kidstress The Health Center - What causes anxiety in teens? Focus Adolescent services - Helping teenagers with Stress HubPages - Social Anxiety in Teenagers University of Alberta - Stress and Body Image Binge Eating KidsHealth: Binge Eating Disorder WebMd: Teens and Binge Eating FamilyDoctor.org: Eating Disorders: Facts for teens Fears and Phobias Teens and Health: Fears and Phobias HelpGuide: Phobias and Fears: Types, Symptoms and Treatment KidsHealth: Anxiety, Fears and Phobias Multiple personality disorder, or MPD Health A to Z - Multiple personality disorder Buzzle.com - Multiple personalaty disorder - Symptpms and Solutions Medicine.Net - Multiple personality disorder Panic Attacks MGH: Panic Disorder in Children and Teens AnxietyBC: Panic Disorder Panic Disorder: What is it? Post-traumatic Stress disorder NIMH - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder MedecineNet.com - Post-traumatic Stress disorder Mayo Clinic - Post-traumatic Stress disorder Body Immage Anorexia Raising Kids: Anorexia & Your Teenager Anorexia Survival Guide: What happens to the teenage anorexic sufferer? Suite 101: Anorexia and Bulimia in Teenagers Relationships/Frienships Date Rape Kidshealth: Date Rape Troubled Teen 101: Teens and Date Rape Drugs NIDA InfoFacts: Rohypnol and GHB Straight Talk for Teens: Date Rate Drugs Leave Victms Unable to Remember Families Adoption LikeItIs.com - Teenage pregnancies and adoption Adoption Myths Debunked Adoption and Teen Pregnancy Addictions Substance Abuse Focus on adolescent Services - Drugs and Teens Substance Abuse NIDA for Teens - The Science behind drug abuse Teen Drug Abuse - The Health Effects of Teen Alcohol Use National Youth Network - Teenage substnce Abuse Game Addictions National Institute on Media and the Family - Computer and Video Games Addiction All About - Cause and Impact of Video Games Addiction MAVAV Resources - Video Game Addiction Web.MD - Video Games Addiction Feelings and Emotions Anger Anger Management - A guide for Teens Focus on Adolescent Services - Anger in out teens and in ourselves Teen Anger Management Stress/Burnout Focus on the Family: Helping too-busy teenagers beat burnout Facts for Families: Helping Teenagers with Stress The Health Center: What causes Stress in Teens? StressFocus: Adolescents stress – It can cause adverse effect in future IParenting: Overscheduled? Detect and Prevent Burnout in Your Child Other Symptoms Kleptomania (Shoplifting) Troubled Teen 101 - Teen Shoplifting Medicine.Net - Rite of Passage or Cry for Help: Why Teens Shoplift TeensHealth - Shoplifting Adolescents and Cults HighBeam Encyclopedia - Adolescent attraction to cults Hospital for Children - Cults Teaching Teenagers to Resist Social Pressure Self-mutilation Teenagers and Self Mutilation: The Facts A Cut Above - The Practice of Self-Mutilation Self Mutilation Among Teens Seasonal Affective Disorder Mayo Clinic: Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) Medline Plus: Seasonal Affective Disorder FamilyDoctor.org: Seasonal Affective Disorder Suicide KidsHealth: Teen Suicide Medicine.net: Suicide AACAP: Teen Suicide Obsessive-compulsive disorder NIMH: Obsessive-compulsive disorder KidsHealth: Obsessive-compulsive disorder MedlinePlus: Obsessive-compulsive disorder Schizophrenia NIMH: Schizophrenia Mayo Clinic: Schizophrenia MedlinePlus: Schizophrenia Test anxiety Dealing with test anxiety How to study: Test anxiety Managing Test Anxiety Oppositional Defiant Disorder AACAP: Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder MayoClinic: Oppositional Defiant Disorder Oppositional Defiant Disorder: American Description Website evaluation California's Velcro Crop - Use this site to practice your evaluation skills. Critical evaluation of a website - checklist - From Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. QUICK QUIZ - Find out what to consider when assessing a website's quality. Quality Information Checklist - printable - A checklist to help you assess the value of the information in a website. Seven forms of bias - From David Sadker, American University School of Education QuickCheklist Download

Drug Research Project Introduction Some of the links below will be useful in starting your research on drugs and their effects. Make sure that you evaluate the information you find by evaluating the quality of the website. Comprehensive information site on drugs DrugWatch - Drug Information Inhalants http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Inhalants http://www.streetdrugs.org/inhalants.htm http://www.theantidrug.com/drug_info/drug_info_inhalants.asp Nitrous Oxyde http://www.justsayn2o.com/ http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/nit04.htm http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Inhalants Stimulants Amphetamines http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/PHD861/ Cocaine & Crack http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/cocaine.html http://www.cocaine.org/ http://www.justice.gov/dea/concern/cocaine.html Methamphetamines (Speed, Meth, Crack, Crystal Meth, Glass, Ice) http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/drug-drogues/learn-renseigne/meth-eng.php http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/grow/drugs_alcohol/know_drugs_meths.html http://www.teendrugabuse.us/methamphetamine.html http://crystalmethbc.ca/ Strawberry Quick or Pop Rocks "Strawberry Quick Meth - The Truth http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/candymeth.asp http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/294341/new_street_drug_alert_strawberry_quick.html http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa070506_mo_poprocksmeth.43d63c26.html Ritalin http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/Ritalin.html http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_guide/Ritalin http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a682188.html Khat http://www.streetdrugs.org/khat.htm http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Khat Heroin, Opiates, and Opioid painkillers http://www.sayno.com/opiates.html http://opiates.net/ http://www.opiates.org/ http://www.drugfree.org/portal/drug_guide/heroin http://opioids.com/ http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/healthy/addictions/889.html Codeine http://www.drugs.com/codeine.html http://www.medicinenet.com/codeine/article.htm http://www.addictionsearch.com/treatment_articles/article/codeine-addiction-effects-and-treatment_46.html http://www.streetdrugs.org/codeine.htm Heroin http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/heroin.html http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/heroin/index.html http://www.justice.gov/dea/concern/heroin.html http://www.streetdrugs.org/heroin.htm Morphine http://www.drugs.com/morphine.html http://www.streetdrugs.org/morphine.htm  Opium http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Opium http://www.streetdrugs.org/opium.htm http://www.drugs.com/opium.html Oxycodone (OxyContin) http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/OxyContin http://www.streetdrugs.org/oxycodone.htm http://www.drugs.com/oxycodone.html http://www.drugs.com/oxycontin.html Fentanyl http://www.drugs.com/fentanyl.html http://www.streetdrugs.org/fentanyl.htm http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a601202.html Salvia http://www.streetdrugs.org/salvia.htm http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Salvia%20divinorum http://www.salviacenter.com/ Depressants & Tranquilizers http://www.streetdrugs.org/depressants.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/abuse/6-depress.htm http://www.egetgoing.com/drug_rehab/tranquilizers.asp Barbiturates (amobarbital, secobarbitol) http://www.streetdrugs.org/barbiturates.htm http://www.drugstraining.co.uk/DrugsInfo/info-barbiturate.html http://www.thesite.org/drinkanddrugs/drugsafety/drugsatoz/barbituates http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/drug_information_online.asp?title=Secobarbitol Benzodiazepines (Diazepam=Valium) http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/drugs/benzos.asp http://www.justice.gov/dea/concern/benzodiazepines.html http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000401/2121.html http://www.drugs.com/valium.html http://www.pdrhealth.com/drugs/rx/rx-mono.aspx?contentFileName=Val1473.html&contentName=Valium&contentId=618 Methaqualone (Mandrax, qualudes, ludes) http://www.saps.gov.za/drugs/meth.htm http://www.streetdrugs.org/glut.htm http://www.sdrl.com/druglist/methaqualone.html http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/qual01.htm Hallucinogens http://www.streetdrugs.org/hallucinogens.htm http://www.sayno.com/hallucin.html http://teens.drugabuse.gov/mom/mom_hal1.asp  LSD (acid) http://www.streetdrugs.org/lsd.htm http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/LSD http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/LSD.html http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/lsd.html Mescaline http://www.streetdrugs.org/mescaline.htm http://www.drugs.com/mescaline.html http://www.drugeducation.net/mescaline.htm PCP (phencyclidine, angel dust) also stimulant/painkiller http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/PCP http://www.streetdrugs.org/pcp.htm http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/pcp.html Peyote http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Peyote http://users.lycaeum.org/~iamklaus/sides.htm http://www.pamf.sutterhealth.org/teen/risk/drugs/hallucinogens/peyote.html Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Mushrooms http://www.streetdrugs.org/tryptamines.htm http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=240&np=158&id=2036 Club or designer drugs (may be stimulants, hallucinogens, depressants etc.) http://designer-drug.com/synth/index.html http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/desi01.htm http://www.aadac.com/124_704.asp http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/ Ecstasy (MDMA) (also a stimulant) http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Ecstasy http://www.streetdrugs.org/mdma.htm http://www.nida.nih.gov/InfoFacts/ecstasy.html http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/mdma.html GHB (also a depressant) http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/GHB http://www.streetdrugs.org/ghb.htm http://www.theantidrug.com/drug_info/drug_info_ghb.asp Ketamine, keniston (Special K) (tranquilizer) http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Ketamine http://www.streetdrugs.org/ketamine.htm http://www.theantidrug.com/drug_info/drug_info_ketamine.asp Rohypnol (sedative, tranquilizer) http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Rohypnol http://www.streetdrugs.org/rohypnol.htm http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/rohypnol.htm http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/roof.html http://www.drugs.com/rohypnol.html Other Caffeine http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/drugs/caffeine.html http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/caff.html http://coffeefaq.com/site/node/25 Cannabis: Marijuana, hashish (psychoactive, mild hallucinogens http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Marijuana http://www.streetdrugs.org/marijuana.htm http://www.theantidrug.com/drug_info/drug-info-marijuana.asp http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Hashish http://www.streetdrugs.org/hashish.htm http://www.streetdrugs.org/hashoil.htm http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/hash013.htm http://www.gdcada.org/statistics/hashish.htm Gravol http://www.aadac.com/87_433.asp Insulin http://www.fda.gov/diabetes/insulin.html http://www.endocrineweb.com/diabetes/2insulin.html http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a682611.html http://health.blogdig.net/archives/articles/September2006/14/A_scary_look_at_insulin_abuse.html Methadone http://www.drugs.com/methadone.html http://www.streetdrugs.org/methadone.htm http://www.fda.gov/CDER/drug/advisory/methadone.htm http://www.heroinaddiction.com/heroin_methadone.html Penicillin http://www.drugs.com/penicillin.html http://www.herbs2000.com/medica/2_antibioticsE.htm Psychiatric drugs (mood-altering eg. Prozac) http://www.drugs.com/prozac.html http://www.healthsquare.com/newrx/pro1362.htm http://www.prozac.com/common_pages/safety_information.jsp Steroids http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/Steroids http://www.streetdrugs.org/steroids.htm http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/steroids/index.html http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/steroids.html http://www.justice.gov/dea/concern/steroids.html Thalidomide http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a699032.html http://www.thalidomide.ca/en/information/what_is_thalidomide.html Tobaco - Nicotine Addiction http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4753 http://whyquit.com/whyquit/LinksAAddiction.html http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nicotine-dependence/DS00307 http://smoking.drugabuse.gov/ Other (Wet drugs;Jimson weed, fry, DXM, Ephedra…) http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/ohe/library/drugs/smoking/wet.htm http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/wet/ http://www.doitnow.org/pages/535.html http://www.doitnow.org/pages/525.html http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002881.htm http://www.dancesafe.org/documents/druginfo/dxm.php http://www.drugfree.org/portal/drug_guide/dxm http://www.streetdrugs.org/dxm.htm http://nccam.nih.gov/health/alerts/ephedra/consumeradvisory.htm http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ephedra/NS_patient-ephedra http://www.drugabusehelp.com/drugs/ephedra/

An Internet Hotlist on Planning, CAPP & Home Ec

http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listhomeeca.html

American Council for Drug Education (ACDE)

Main Page - http://www.acde.org/

Factctsheets - http://www.acde.org/common/Contents.htm

ABC's factsheets from the AADAC: Alberta Alcohol & Drug Abuse Commission - Amphetamines (Speed, Crystal Meth, Ice); Caffeine; Cannabis;(Marijuana, Hash); Club Drugs; Cocaine and Crack; Codeine and; Other Opioid Painkillers; Drugs and Seniors; Ecstasy (MDMA); Gravol; Heroin; Inhalants; LSD; Magic Mushrooms. Naltrexone Over the Counter Drugs PCP (Angel Dust) Ritalin (Methylphenidate) Smoking

http://www.aadac.com/124_685.asp

Caffeine - Neuroscience for Kids

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/caff.html

Caffeine - How much caffeine is in your daily habit? - MayoClinic.com

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/caffeine/AN01211

Drugscope: Focus: Websites for teenagers and young people - pdf document

Just Think Twice

http://www.justthinktwice.com/

MedlinePlus: Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

MedlinePlus: Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

No2Meth

http://www.no2meth.ca/

STDResource.com

http://www.stdresource.com/

Website evaluation

• California's Velcro Crop - Use this site to practice your evaluation skills.
• Critical evaluation of a website - checklist - From Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators.
• QUICK QUIZ - Find out what to consider when assessing a website's quality.
• Quality Information Checklist - printable - A checklist to help you assess the value of the information in a website.
• Seven forms of bias - From David Sadker, American University School of Education

QuickCheklist Download