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Resources for counsellors and teachers about psychology, mental health issues, and violence

Books from Your ATA Library

The Anxious Generation

A must-read: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

Targeting the Positive with Behaviours That Challenge

This book offers an empowering tool kit that builds upon positive skills and abilities when working with individuals under some form of supervision or care. These effective methods build trusting relationships, teach new skills, and de-escalate situations safely, improving outcomes for both those who give support and those who receive it.

Counsellor Talk

Written by teachers from Calgary Catholic School, this book shares several tips, tools, and techniques to empower you in finding your path, and discovering what works best for you and your clients.

Educators As First Responders

A hands-on guide to adolescent development and mental health, this book provides tips and strategies that teachers can use with students in varying degrees of distress.

Becoming a Trauma-Informed Restorative Educator

This practical book outlines the values, ideas and neuroscience behind trauma-informed restorative practice and its proven effectiveness. It clearly explains key theories relating to shame, trauma and your autonomic nervous system, and explains how to apply this knowledge in practice.

The Grieving Student

Drawing on both empirical research and extensive professional experience, the authors have enhanced this edition with up-to-date information on grief in the context of school crisis and trauma, suicide loss, social media, and other timely topics. School staff will get real-world tips, strategies, vignettes, and activities to help them skillfully support students as they cope with grief and work their way back to full participation in academic and social life.

Boys Do Cry

Boys Do Cry examines key research on factors impacting boys' mental health and provides teachers with practical strategies to start enacting positive change.

Advocating for Mental Health Supports in Schools

This book helps readers to see themselves as advocates who can successfully advocate for, and achieve, more mental health supports in schools

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