External resources
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Antidepressant Skills Workbook - This workbook provides an overview of depression, explains how to effectively manage depression, and gives step-by-step instructions on how to change patterns that trigger depression.
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Antidepressant skills for teens - A workbook that explains depression and teaches three main antidepressant skills you can use to help overcome or prevent depression.
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Antidepressant skills workbook - Gives an overview of depression, explains how it can be effectively managed according to the best available research, and gives a step-by-step guide to changing patterns that trigger depression.
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Are you depressed? - Helps you find out if you have depression. This tool calculates how many common symptoms of depression you have and suggests where you might be on a scale from “not depressed” to “depressed”.
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Check up from the neck up - An interactive online health check-up that can identify some symptoms of common mood disorders.
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Consortium for Organizational Mental Mealth Care - Several self-care workbooks available to download on: antidepressant skills, depression, health conditions, relaxation, and coping with suicidal thoughts.
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Coping with suicidal thoughts - A booklet of resources, information, support, and practical steps for those who are having suicidal thoughts or have attempted suicide.
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Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia - Provides emotional support to youth, adults, and seniors in distress.
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Dealing with depression: Antidepressant skills for teens - This is a workbook for teens that explains depression and teaches three main skills you can use to help overcome or prevent it.
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Here to Help: Depression and anxiety screening - Helps you identify the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and risky drinking. This tool is part of Here to Help, a group of agencies working on mental health and substance use problems.
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Here to Help: Managing depression - A toolkit of resources and strategies important for the self-management of depression.
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Here to Help: Toolkits - Here to Help provides manuals that help develop knowledge and practice skills to manage your own mental health and support others.
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Hope and healing: a practical guide for survivors of suicide - A guide to the practical matters that survivors need to deal with after a loved one has died by suicide.
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Mental health meter - Helps you identify ways to improve your mental fitness (your ability to enjoy life, resilience, balance, self-actualization, and flexibility). This tool is from the Canadian Mental Health Association.
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Mind your mind - Resources and communication forums for youth and young adults mental illness.
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My mood monitor - A short questionnaire about your mood. Answers are analyzed and you'll receive an assessment of your risk for mood and anxiety disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Positive coping with health conditions - A self-care manual by scientist-practitioners on coping with health conditions
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Self-care manual (374KB PDF) - This self-care guide gives an overview of depression and how to manage depression.
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The self-care depression program - An extensive guide to the self-care of depression, which includes “Three Ways to Get Control of Depression” (reactivating your life, challenging negative thinking habits, solving problems effectively).
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UBC Graduate Studies: Stress and depression - Information about stress and mood management strategies.
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Youth in BC - Online crisis chat service.
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Adult addiction counselling: Pacific Spirit Community Health Centre - A Vancouver-based centre that provides help for drug or alcohol counselling to UBC students.
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Alberta Health Services: Other drugs factsheets - Alberta Health Services offers information about drugs and what to do if you are feeling addicted.
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: About marijuana - Information on marijuana, its effects, and its use.
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Health Canada: Drugs and health products - The "Baseline Natural Health Products Survey Among Consumers".
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Here to Help: Family toolkit - Modules include: understanding mental and substance use disorders, supporting recovery from a mental or substance use disorder, communication and problem-solving skills, caring for yourself and other family members, children and youth in the school system.
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Here to Help: Managing problem substance use - Worksheets and guidelines for individuals and families who are struggling with alcohol and drug use problems.
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Here to help - A British Columbia information resource that aims to help people prevent and manage mental health and substance use problems.
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Here to help: Alcohol and other drugs - Materials for managing the use of alcohol and other drugs.
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Here to help: Dangerous drug combinations - Information on dangerous drug combinations.
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Know Cannabis - A website for cannabis, or marijuana, users that helps them assess their use of the drug and gives information on effects and prevention.
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Marijuana addiction test - A test from the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health, which has facts on marijuana and a test to see if you are addicted to marijuana. And if you are what to do about it.
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Alcohol Help Center - Private, interactive help on how to cut down or stop drinking if it becomes too much.
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - A Canadian view of alcohol use and how to drink responsibly.
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College student alcohol safety: How to drink more safely on campus - A Suite 101 article on safely drinking.
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Do you have a drinking problem? - Helps you find out if your drinking is dangerous or unhealthy. This tool calculates how many signs of alcohol dependency you have and suggests whether you are likely to have a drinking problem.
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Here to Help: Depression and anxiety screening - Helps you identify the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and risky drinking. This tool is part of Here to Help, a group of agencies working on mental health and substance use problems.
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Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines for BC - A summary of drinking guidelines and standard drinking amounts from the Centre of Addictions Research BC.
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Responsible Alcohol Use - An article about intoxication- including signs and symptoms, average drink consumed before intoxication- and how to drink responsibly.
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Suite101.com: Online Magazine and Writers' Network - Contains articles about how to drink in a more responsible manner.
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Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia - Provides emotional support to youth, adults, and seniors in distress.
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Half of us - Information on and self-assessments for a variety of mental-health issues.
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Half of us: Help a friend - Information on how to help a friend who is struggling emotionally, not coping well, or using drugs or alcohol
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Healthy relationships - Information about the qualities of a romantic or sexual relationship.
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Here to Help: Family self-care and recovery from mental illness - A resource about ways that families can look after their own wellbeing while caring for a family member.
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Here to Help: Family toolkit - Modules include: understanding mental and substance use disorders, supporting recovery from a mental or substance use disorder, communication and problem-solving skills, caring for yourself and other family members, children and youth in the school system.
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Here to Help: Managing mental wellbeing - Worksheets on promoting good mental health and general well-being, with definitions of basic concepts, tips on how to manage mental health and well-being on a daily basis and links to other helpful resources.
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Here to Help: Managing problem substance use - Worksheets and guidelines for individuals and families who are struggling with alcohol and drug use problems.
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Here to Help: Toolkits - Here to Help provides manuals that help develop knowledge and practice skills to manage your own mental health and support others.
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Here to help - A British Columbia information resource that aims to help people prevent and manage mental health and substance use problems.
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Here to help: Module 1: Understanding mental and substance use disorders - A family toolkit on how to help a friend or family member who has a mental health problem. Module 1 deals with identifying and understanding mental disorders, as well as what to do.
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Hope and healing: a practical guide for survivors of suicide - A guide to the practical matters that survivors need to deal with after a loved one has died by suicide.
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Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders Discussion Boards - Forums that serve as a support group service for those suffering from eating disorders, and their friends and family.
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Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders, Vancouver, BC - An organization that helps those who suffer from eating disorders, and their friends and family.
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Mind your mind - Resources and communication forums for youth and young adults mental illness.
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National Eating Disorders Association - Support network for those with eating disorders and their parents, families, and friends.
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RespectED: Violence and abuse prevention - This Canadian Red Cross program promotes healthier relationships and safer communities through education and partnerships.
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Something fishy: Eating disorders online support - Online chat and bulletin board about eating disorders.
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Studentawards.com - Resource for managing information about bursaries and scholarship, including an online notification service for application deadlines.
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Toll-free information lines - Toll-free information lines for the Alcohol & Drug Information & Referral Service, the BC Partners Mental Health Information Line, Eating Disorders Resource Centre, HealthLinkBC, and the Problem Gambling Help Line.
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UBC Alma Mater Society: Clubs - Directory of clubs at UBC.
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UBC CareersOnline - Job postings for UBC students.
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UBC Centre for Student Involvement - The resource centre for orientations, peer programs, the Student Leadership Conference, and the Conference for Learning and Student Success.
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UBC Learning Commons - Guidance, tools, resources, and people to help you learn at UBC.
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UBC Learning Commons: Get started - UBC’s premier student learning base-camp where you will plan and execute the "LEAP" of your life.
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UBC Peer Programs - Information about the many UBC peer programs (which offer support by UBC students to UBC students).
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What Parents Can Do! - A booklet from UBC Housing, with tips and advice to parents on how to help their son/daughter with living away from home.
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You are worthy of a healthy relationship: Healthy relationships checklist - Information about the characteristics of a healthy relationship and about your rights in a relationship, from the Canadian Red Cross.
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Youth in BC - Online crisis chat service.
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Contraception: Choosing wisely - A detailed questionnaire to help you decide about the kind of contraception to use. This questionnaire is part of the sexualityandu.ca website, from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Healthy relationships - Information about the qualities of a romantic or sexual relationship.
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Here to Help: Family self-care and recovery from mental illness - A resource about ways that families can look after their own wellbeing while caring for a family member.
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Here to Help: Family toolkit - Modules include: understanding mental and substance use disorders, supporting recovery from a mental or substance use disorder, communication and problem-solving skills, caring for yourself and other family members, children and youth in the school system.
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Here to Help: Managing problem substance use - Worksheets and guidelines for individuals and families who are struggling with alcohol and drug use problems.
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How to use a condom - Slideshow demonstrating how to put on, use and dispose of a condom correctly. This slideshow is part of the sexualityandu.ca website, from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Make Yourself Happy - An article summarizing four tips on how to be happy and self-content.
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Mental health meter - Helps you identify ways to improve your mental fitness (your ability to enjoy life, resilience, balance, self-actualization, and flexibility). This tool is from the Canadian Mental Health Association.
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Positive coping with health conditions - A self-care manual by scientist-practitioners on coping with health conditions
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RespectED: Violence and abuse prevention - This Canadian Red Cross program promotes healthier relationships and safer communities through education and partnerships.
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S.O.S: Stay on schedule - A guide to taking contraception after a missed or extended dose. This guide is part of the sexualityandu.ca website, from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Sex and Infections - An interactive website that helps you learn more about STIs.
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The university student's guide to safer sex - A back-to-basics guide on how to practice safer sex- includes descriptions of various methods and how to define your own safe sex philosophy.
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You are worthy of a healthy relationship: Healthy relationships checklist - Information about the characteristics of a healthy relationship and about your rights in a relationship, from the Canadian Red Cross.
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Ask Dr. T - An interactive website that helps you learn more about STIs and contraceptives.
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Contraception: Choosing wisely - A detailed questionnaire to help you decide about the kind of contraception to use. This questionnaire is part of the sexualityandu.ca website, from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Healthy relationships - Information about the qualities of a romantic or sexual relationship.
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How to use a condom - Slideshow demonstrating how to put on, use and dispose of a condom correctly. This slideshow is part of the sexualityandu.ca website, from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Options for sexual health - Optionsforsexualhealth.org has facts about contraceptives and safer sex practices.
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S.O.S: Stay on schedule - A guide to taking contraception after a missed or extended dose. This guide is part of the sexualityandu.ca website, from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Sex and Infections - An interactive website that helps you learn more about STIs.
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Sexual Assault Service (Vancouver General Hospital) - The Sexual Assault Service at Vancouver General Hospital is a team of female nurses, nurse examiners, doctors, and counsellors that provide care 24 hours a day. Their services include assessment and treatment of injuries, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy prevention as well as forensic evidence collection and emotional support.
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Sexual Assault Support Centre (UBC) - Provides emotional, medical, and legal support, as well as information, to all survivors of sexual assault, as well as their friends, family members, and partners.
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Sexuality and U: S.O.S. - This is an online tool that helps you track your daily intake of contraception and gives you advice in case of emergency.
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Sexually transmitted infections - Information about sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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The university student's guide to safer sex - A back-to-basics guide on how to practice safer sex- includes descriptions of various methods and how to define your own safe sex philosophy.
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Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) - A non-profit organization that is "open and accessible to all women survivors of violence. They operate within a feminist and anti-oppression framework, and are committed to non-violence." WAVAW operates a 24-hour crisis line for sexual assault: 1-877-392-7583.
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hpvinfo.ca - Information for students, parents, teachers, and health professionals about HPV.
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sexualityandu.ca - Provides information and education on sexual health. This website is administered by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
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Act Now BC - Fatigue fighting tips - A summary of what fatigue is, and various ways to rid of it.
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Anxiety BC: Complete home toolkit - A series of resources on dealing with specific anxiety issues (such as getting sleep, managing uncertainty in daily life), with tips and techniques for relaxing, healthy living, setting goals, and changing thinking patterns.
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Healthy sleep - A resource from the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, with research on the importance of sleep.
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Here to Help: Managing mental wellbeing - Worksheets on promoting good mental health and general well-being, with definitions of basic concepts, tips on how to manage mental health and well-being on a daily basis and links to other helpful resources.
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Here to help: Wellness module 6: Getting a good night's sleep - Tips and guidance for getting sleep,with an online sleep diary you can use to record your sleep patterns.
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Managing Exam Anxiety and Stress - A .pdf file that lists ways on how to manage the exam jitters, and giving tips on how to incorporate that with sleep, nutrition, and exercise.
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Positive coping with health conditions - A self-care manual by scientist-practitioners on coping with health conditions
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SFU Student Learning Commons: Strategies - Several resources on time management as well as study skills and strategies.
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Sleep, getting enough? - An interactive page that gives you tips on how to make your bedroom a more sleep-friendly place.
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UBC Learning Commons: Time management toolkit - Tips and tools for managing your academic year.
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Canadian Dermatology Association - Canadian Dermatology Association provides public education on diseases of the skin, hair and nails.
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Dartmouth: Are you at risk for an eating disorder? - Questionnaire and self-assessment on eating disorders.
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Dietitians of Canada - The Dietitians of Canada maintain one of the best resources for nutrition with practical strategies and many interactive tools.
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Dietitians of Canada: Interactive tools - The Dietitians of Canada maintain one of the best resources for nutrition with practical strategies and many interactive tools.
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EATracker - Tracks your day's food and activity choices and compares them to Health Canada guidelines. This tool is managed by the Dieticians of Canada.
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Health Canada: Eating well with Canada's food guide - Food guide that can be personalized, with information about nutrition labels.
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Healthy living: It's good for life - Information about the benefits of eating well, as well as online tools.
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Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders, Vancouver, BC - An organization that helps those who suffer from eating disorders, and their friends and family.
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NYU: Eating disorders questionnaire - Questionnaire on eating disorders.
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National Eating Disorder Information Centre - Information and resources on eating disorders, food, and weight preoccupation.
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National Eating Disorders Association - Support network for those with eating disorders and their parents, families, and friends.
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Something fishy: Eating disorders - Raises awareness and provides support to people with eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating.
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Something fishy: Eating disorders online support - Online chat and bulletin board about eating disorders.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine: National Institutes of Health - An online medical library that provides health resources (search by topic, such as "eating disorders").
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UBC Wellness: A+ Eating - A booklet from the UBC Wellness Centre containing ways to incorporate more nutrition into your diet and several healthy recipes!
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UBC: Cheap (but healthy) campus eats (YouTube) - Video about where to eat cheaply and healthily at UBC.
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UCLA: Student nutrition and body image campaign - Aims to help students eat well, be active, and feel good about their bodies, as well as to help prevent nutrition-related health problems such as poor nutrient intake, eating disorders, overweight/obesity, and size prejudice.
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ActNow: Fitting in physical activity at college or university - ActNow's guide to fitting in physical activity at college or university, which includes ideas for getting more activity into the day.
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Health Canada: Healthy living: Physical activity - Tips and resources for physical activity.
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Public Health Agency of Canada - The Public Health Agency of Canada's guide to healthy active living: "Why physical activity is important for you".
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UBC Aquatics Centre - UBC Aquatics Centre houses an indoor and outdoor pool, and offers swimming lessons and aquatic programs.
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UBC Birdcoop Fitness Centre - The Bird Coop provides a fitness centre, and offers personal training, group programs, boot camps, and more.
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UBC REC: Leagues - Information on sports leagues at UBC.
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UBC Yoga Club - UBC Yoga Club offers inexpensive yoga classes throughout the year.
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Your health: video and audio - Video and audio recordings from SFU Health and Counselling Services on body mindfulness, meditation, relaxation, yoga, and Pilates.
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10 Steps To Surviving the Holidays - An article summarizing 10 great ways to make the best of the holiday season.
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Coping with stress - Information with workbook on stress.
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Dartmouth: Managing Your Time - A summary and list of resources on time management from the Dartmouth University website.
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Here to Help: Managing mental wellbeing - Worksheets on promoting good mental health and general well-being, with definitions of basic concepts, tips on how to manage mental health and well-being on a daily basis and links to other helpful resources.
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Here to help: Wellness module 2: Stress and wellbeing - A self-help module from Here to Help, which looks at signs and sources of stress, its negative and positive effects, its link with physical and mental health, coping strategies, and a survey to help identify where the stress in your life comes from.
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How well do you bounce back? - Measures your resiliency - your ability to bounce back from stressful situations. This tool assesses the personality factors shown in your answers and describes your level of resilience.
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Learning Skills - An online summary of time management skills and techniques from the York University website.
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Managing Exam Anxiety and Stress - A .pdf file that lists ways on how to manage the exam jitters, and giving tips on how to incorporate that with sleep, nutrition, and exercise.
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Our Healthy Minds: Mental Health and Stress - A site that helps you deal with stress in various aspects of life (work, stress as a result of illness, etc.).
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Positive coping with health conditions - A self-care manual by scientist-practitioners on coping with health conditions
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Positive coping with health conditions: Relaxation method - An audio file with a three-part exercise in relaxation and releasing tension.
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SFU Student Learning Commons: Strategies - Several resources on time management as well as study skills and strategies.
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UBC Graduate Studies: Stress and depression - Information about stress and mood management strategies.
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UBC Learning Commons - Guidance, tools, resources, and people to help you learn at UBC.
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What's your stress level? - Test for finding your stress level.
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Anxiety BC: Complete home toolkit - A series of resources on dealing with specific anxiety issues (such as getting sleep, managing uncertainty in daily life), with tips and techniques for relaxing, healthy living, setting goals, and changing thinking patterns.
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Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada - Canadian non-profit organization whose aim is to promote the prevention, treatment and management of anxiety disorders and to improve the lives of people who suffer from them.
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Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada: Student zone - comprehensive information on anxiety, including the sections “The ABCs of Anxiety”, “Stress Busters”, and “Overcoming Homesickness”.
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Anxiety screener - A questionnaire from Mental Health America that screens for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and social phobia.
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Anxiety: Getting started | Anxiety BC - This resource offers self-help strategies for managing mild to severe anxiety.
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Are you depressed? - Helps you find out if you have depression. This tool calculates how many common symptoms of depression you have and suggests where you might be on a scale from “not depressed” to “depressed”.
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Check up from the neck up - An interactive online health check-up that can identify some symptoms of common mood disorders.
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Here to Help: Depression and anxiety screening - Helps you identify the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and risky drinking. This tool is part of Here to Help, a group of agencies working on mental health and substance use problems.
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Here to Help: Managing anxiety disorders - A toolkit with information about the characteristics of normal anxiety, the different types of anxiety disorders, effective treatment options, and basic self-care strategies that can help reduce symptoms of anxiety.
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Here to Help: Toolkits - Here to Help provides manuals that help develop knowledge and practice skills to manage your own mental health and support others.
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Mastering Exam Anxiety : Study Skills : AU Learner Support ... - A summary of exam anxiety, including a list of signs and symptoms and ways to deal with it.
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Mental health meter - Helps you identify ways to improve your mental fitness (your ability to enjoy life, resilience, balance, self-actualization, and flexibility). This tool is from the Canadian Mental Health Association.
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Mind your mind - Resources and communication forums for youth and young adults mental illness.
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My mood monitor - A short questionnaire about your mood. Answers are analyzed and you'll receive an assessment of your risk for mood and anxiety disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Consortium for Organizational Mental Mealth Care - Several self-care workbooks available to download on: antidepressant skills, depression, health conditions, relaxation, and coping with suicidal thoughts.
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Coping with suicidal thoughts - A booklet of resources, information, support, and practical steps for those who are having suicidal thoughts or have attempted suicide.
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Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia - Provides emotional support to youth, adults, and seniors in distress.
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Hope and healing: a practical guide for survivors of suicide - A guide to the practical matters that survivors need to deal with after a loved one has died by suicide.
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Youth in BC - Online crisis chat service.
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American Academy of Family Physicians - Association of American medical organizations, which focuses on family medicine and ensuring high-quality, cost-effective health care.
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BC Centre for Disease Control: Travel health - Information on BC travel clinics as well as travel health risks.
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Canadian Cancer Society - National, community-based organization working to eradicate cancer and enhance the quality of life for people living with cancer.
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Canadian Dermatology Association - Canadian Dermatology Association provides public education on diseases of the skin, hair and nails.
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Canadian daily UV index forecast - The daily UV index forecast for Canadian cities.
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Cochrane Collection - An organization that produces reviews on medicine and health care.
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Health Canada: Drugs and health products - The "Baseline Natural Health Products Survey Among Consumers".
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Health Canada: It's your health: Safe use of natural health products - Information about risks to consider when using natural health products and ways to minimize the risks.
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HealthLink BC: Check your symptoms: Sunburn - HealthLink BC information on sunburn.
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Indoor tanning is out - Canadian Dermatology Association information on tanning beds.
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Live happy - An interactive iPhone application commercially available on the Signal Patterns website. The application suggests activities you can do daily to foster your own happiness.
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Positive coping with health conditions: Relaxation method - An audio file with a three-part exercise in relaxation and releasing tension.
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Public Health Agency of Canada: Travel health - Advice about health precautions and travel advisories.
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Registration of citizens travelling abroad - Government registration service for all Canadians travelling or living abroad.
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Service Canada: Canadians abroad - Registration service for all Canadians travelling or living abroad. This service is provided so that Canada can contact and assist you in an emergency in a foreign country, such as a natural disaster or civil unrest, or inform you of a family emergency at home
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Sunscreen questions - Canadian Dermatology Association's factsheet about sunscreen.
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Testicular cancer: What to look for - Illustrated guidance on testicular cancer self-examination.
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The Weather Network - The Weather Network's UV report on the UV index.
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Travel Health Online - Specific country recommendations for vaccinations, personal safety and precautions about food, water, etc.
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UV index and your local forecast - A guide to the UV index with links to websites of local forecasts.
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Vancouver Coastal Health: Travel clinic - Offers pre-travel support, including counselling, vaccines, and prescriptions. The clinic is staffed by doctors and nurses specializing in travel medicine.
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Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada: Student zone - comprehensive information on anxiety, including the sections “The ABCs of Anxiety”, “Stress Busters”, and “Overcoming Homesickness”.
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Canadian Mental Health Association - Information and warning signs for all types of mental health issues.
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Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) - CAMH is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
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Check up from the neck up - An interactive online health check-up that can identify some symptoms of common mood disorders.
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Half of us - Information on and self-assessments for a variety of mental-health issues.
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Half of us: Help a friend - Information on how to help a friend who is struggling emotionally, not coping well, or using drugs or alcohol
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Here to Help: Family self-care and recovery from mental illness - A resource about ways that families can look after their own wellbeing while caring for a family member.
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Here to Help: Family toolkit - Modules include: understanding mental and substance use disorders, supporting recovery from a mental or substance use disorder, communication and problem-solving skills, caring for yourself and other family members, children and youth in the school system.
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Here to Help: Managing mental disorders - An interactive toolkit to help those who have a mental disorder to develop skills to manage their illness on their own.
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Here to Help: Managing mental wellbeing - Worksheets on promoting good mental health and general well-being, with definitions of basic concepts, tips on how to manage mental health and well-being on a daily basis and links to other helpful resources.
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Here to Help: Toolkits - Here to Help provides manuals that help develop knowledge and practice skills to manage your own mental health and support others.
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Here to help - A British Columbia information resource that aims to help people prevent and manage mental health and substance use problems.
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Here to help: Module 1: Understanding mental and substance use disorders - A family toolkit on how to help a friend or family member who has a mental health problem. Module 1 deals with identifying and understanding mental disorders, as well as what to do.
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Internet use: Caught in the web? - Simon Fraser University's tips and strategies for cutting down on internet use, with links to time management resources and a list of the five warning signs of internet overuse.
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Mental health meter - Helps you identify ways to improve your mental fitness (your ability to enjoy life, resilience, balance, self-actualization, and flexibility). This tool is from the Canadian Mental Health Association.
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Mind your mind - Resources and communication forums for youth and young adults mental illness.
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My mood monitor - A short questionnaire about your mood. Answers are analyzed and you'll receive an assessment of your risk for mood and anxiety disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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NYU: Eating disorders questionnaire - Questionnaire on eating disorders.
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Netaddiction.com - Netaddiction.com has a Self Tests section that includes quizzes on cybersexual addiction, internet addiction, obsessive online gaming, compulsive online gambling, and online auction addiction, as well as a test for partners of potential internet addicts.
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Our Healthy Minds: Mental Health and Stress - A site that helps you deal with stress in various aspects of life (work, stress as a result of illness, etc.).
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TechAddiction - TechAddiction has information about video and computer game addiction as well as internet addiction. It includes an Education Corner and a self-help workbook, a blog, and a forum.
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Toll-free information lines - Toll-free information lines for the Alcohol & Drug Information & Referral Service, the BC Partners Mental Health Information Line, Eating Disorders Resource Centre, HealthLinkBC, and the Problem Gambling Help Line.
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UBC Learning Commons: Time management toolkit - Tips and tools for managing your academic year.
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Welcome to ProblemGambling.ca - Problem Gambling, from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), is a comprehensive website on internet gambling. Its Getting Help section includes a quiz you can do to find out if you need help, information on how counselling can help, a guide for families, personal stories, self-help tools, and information on getting financial and legal help.
