School Psychologist Corner
TO BE UPDATED IN 2022
Resources
Here you can find a number of different resources that will help you improve and maintain your mental health and well-being.
What is mindfulness fact sheet
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Mood Gym
Learn cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression. This is an online program with modules that you complete at your own pace.
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e-Couch
e-couch is a self-help interactive program with modules for depression, generalised anxiety & worry, social anxiety, relationship breakdown, and loss & grief. It provides evidence-based information and teaches strategies drawn from cognitive, behavioural and interpersonal therapies as well as relaxation and physical activity.
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Meditation Audio Tracks
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Self Help Apps
Smiling Mind is meditation made easy. A simple tool that helps put a smile on your mind anytime, anywhere and everyday.
MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.
ReachOut WorryTime interrupts this repetitive thinking by setting aside your worries until later, so you don't get caught up in them and can get on with your day. This means you can deal with worries once a day, rather than carrying them around with you 24/7.
Recharge is a personalised six-week program that helps improve your general health and wellbeing.
Establishing a good sleep/wake routine that includes regular exercise and early daylight exposure will help improve your mood, energy and general health and wellbeing as well as helping you sleep better at night. Developed by Reachout Youth.
ReachOut Breathe helps you reduce the physical symptoms of stress and anxiety by slowing down your breathing and your heart rate with your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Research shows that slowing your heart rate can increase feelings of calmness in your body. Using simple visuals, ReachOut Breathe helps you to control your breath and measures your heart rate in real-time using the camera in your phone. This means that you can actively address the onset of physical stress symptoms such as shortness of breath, increased heart rate and a tightening of the chest.
SAM is a friendly app that offers a range of self-help methods for people who are serious about learning to manage their anxiety.
Happify has turned a decade's worth of research into activities and games that help you create habits for a happier, more fulfilling life. Developed with leading scientists, our program will train you to disrupt patterns of negative thinking, manage stress, and build skills to overcome various life challenges.
Headspace is meditation made simple. Install today to learn meditation and mindfulness in just 10 minutes a day.
Breakup Shakeup provides ideas for fun, easy things to do to help you cope after a breakup.
The app teaches you that planning activities and increasing your social support will help you recover faster.
The Check-in app was designed by beyondblue and Two Bulls in consultation with young people to help take the fear out of having a conversation with a friend who might be struggling.
The Check-in app helps you build a conversation plan of where you will have the conversation, what you will ask, what you have noticed and what you can do to support your friend. The app provides young people the chance to rate the conversation and get advice on the next steps in helping your friend but also in looking after their own mental health.
ACT Companion: The Happiness Trap App
Anthony Berrick and Russ Harris have developed a pretty neat app for clinicians and coaches to use with their clients. It contains dozens of ACT exercises and tools, including over two-and-a-half hours of guided mindfulness exercises.
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Action for Happiness
Action for Happiness helps people take practical action to improve mental wellbeing and to create a happier and more caring society. Their vision is a happier and less self-centred world, with far fewer people suffering with mental health problems and far more people feeling good, functioning well and helping others.
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eHUB Online Self-Help Programs
e-hub's suite of online self-help services is based on the best available evidence and evaluated through high quality research. They can be used anonymously, 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the world. All programs are provided free of charge thanks to funding by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.
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This Way Up Schools
This is an internet based learning system that provides health and well-being courses for students. Courses include:
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Managing Stress
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Alcohol and Cannabis Education
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Anxiety and Depression Prevention for Teens
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Body Image education
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Overcoming Social Anxiety
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Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman TED Ed Talks
ACT - The Nurture Effect
At its core, ACT is about nurturing. Through mindfully living by our values, we build nurturing relationships with ourselves, others, and the world around us. So it’s exciting to see a wealth of new scientific research that shows the benefits of nurturing in just about every area of modern human life. So … if you haven’t yet read Tony Biglan’s new book, “The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World” then I urge you: dash out and buy it now! It will blow you away.
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Mental Health Online
This is an online webiste that has designed programs for improving your health and overcoming mental health difficulties. All you need to do is register and follow the instructions for utilising the programs on the website to assist you with issues such as anxiety and depression.
Beating the Blues
Beating the Blues is an effective, proven treatment for sufferers of depression and anxiety.
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The Panic Centre
The Panic Center offers personalized, interactive tools that have helped thousands of people challenge and overcome their anxiety and panic.
They also offer the Panic Program, an interactive online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) course. You can register for free. Registering also gives you posting privileges in the anonymous online Support Group.
If you think you might have anxiety or panic, you can read more about symptoms and begin to think about questions you can ask your doctor. You can take the Anxiety Test (WB-DAT) for a confidential, detailed assessment of your symptoms.
Goalzie requires at least an iPhone 5.
Goalzie raises the stakes of goal setting one challenge at a time. Select a mate, a challenge, and a fun consequence if they don't complete it before time runs out. It’s the truth or dare of goal setting. Everything is easier with help.