Alberta Internal Resources
External Resources
Emergency Contact Information
- Distress Centre Calgary
- 24 hour crisis line: 403-266-4357
- 211 Community Information
- The Support Network provides a 24-hour distress line and a direct link between essential community services and the people who need them. For more information on these and other services, please call 211.
- Community Resources Team
- 403-299-9699
- Parent Help Line
- 1-888-603-9100
Urgent Family Support
- Distress Centre Calgary
- 24 hour crisis line: 403-266-4357
- Mobile Response Team
- 403-266-4357
- Crisis Resource Team (families)
- Sheldon Chumir Urgent: 403-955-6200
- FMC Emergency Psychiatric Services
- 403-944-1567
- South Calgary Health Center
- 403-943-9300
- Families Matter
- 403-205-5177
- Toll Free (Rural): 1-800-545-5177
- Mental Health Help Line
- 1-877-303-2642
- Parenting Support Line
- 403-205-5189
- Calgary Health Link
- 403-943-5465
- Calgary and Area Child and Family Services
- 403-297-2995
- Alberta Children's Services
- 403-297-8435
- Teen Line
- 24 Hour crisis line: 403-264-8336
Parenting
- "The Whole Parent: How To Become A Terrific Parent Even If You Didn't Have One"
- by Debra Wesselmann
- "Parenting From the Inside Out"
- by Daniel J. Siegel & Mary Hartzell
- "How to Talk so Kids Can Listen: How to Listen so Kids Can Talk"
- by Adelle Faber & Elaine Mazlish
- Family Supports for Children with Disabilities
- http://www.humanservices.alberta.ca/disability-services/14855.html
Special Interest:
Trauma, PTSD, and EMDR
- EMDR
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- "Life After Trauma", Second Edition: A Workbook for Healing
- by Dena Rosenbloom & Mary Beth Williams
- "Tapping the Healer Within: Using Thought-Field Therapy to Instantly Conquer you Fears, Anxieties and Emotional Distress"
- by Roger Callahan & Richard Trubo
- "The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook: A Guide to Healing, Recovery, and Growth"
- by Glenn R. Schiraldi
- "Treating PTSD: Cognitive-Behavioural Strategies"
- by David W. Foy
- "Treating Trauma Survivors with PTSD"
- by Rachel Yehuda
- "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Victim's Guide to Healing and Recovery"
- by Raymond B. Flannery
- "8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery"
- by Babette Rothschild
ADHD
Depression & Anxiety
- "Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think"
- by Dennis Greenberger & Christine Padesky
- "Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy"
- by Dr. David Burns
- "The Feeling Good Workbook"
- by Dr. David Burns
- "Control Your Depression", Revised Edition
- by Peter Lewinsohn
- "Mastering Depression through Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Patient Workbook"
- by Myrna W. Weissman
- "The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness"
- by J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal PhD, and Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Anxiety
- AnxietyBC