Facts About Mental Health

When dealing with mental health issues, it is important to get the facts. The websites below provide accurate information that will help you decipher fact from fiction!

Disability Is Natural

From The Bookshelf
Books regarding all aspects of mental illness and parenting.

ADD Warehouse
The leading resource for the understanding and treatment of all developmental disorders, including ADHD and related problems.

The Autism Society of Minnesota
"Is this Your Child?" Signs and Symptoms of Autism in more than five languages.

All Mental Health - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This website provides information on what mental health really is and provides descriptions of some of the most common mental illnesses.

Children and Adults wtih ADHD

Child and Adolescent Bipolar Association
Early intervention and treatment offer the best chance for children with emerging bipolar disorder.

Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
Background information about children's mental health.

Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health
Mental health fact sheets in English and Spanish.
Early childhood mental health facts sheets.

Minnesota Department of Human Services
Link to fact sheets on anxiety, depression, autism, ADHD, conduct disorder in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Somali, and Hmong.

NAMI Fact Sheets

National Associattion of School Psychologists
NASP fact sheets and position papers.

National Institutue of Mental Health
Health information quick links.

National Mental Health Information Center
Teen Mental Health Problems: What are the Warning Signs

President's New Freedom Commission Report
Background information about children's mental health.

School Pyschology Resources Online

Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health

UCLA School Mental Health Project
Being alert to indicators of psychosocial and mental health problems.
(Search resource aid packets: screening/assessing students: indicators and tools)