Canadian Mental Health Association
Prince Albert Branch

Some of the available pamphlets: The Canadian Mental Health Association offers a series of pamphlets dealing with a wide variety of life's emotional challenges. Available for 35 cents each: Mental Health For Life How to work towards – and maintain – good mental health. Mental Illnesses An overview of major mental illnesses and their treatment. Getting help: When and How How to decide if you need help, and how to find help, for a mental health problem. The Myths of Mental Illness Clearing up the misunderstandings and common fears surrounding mental illness. Mental Illness and the Family Issues for people who have a family member with mental illness. Feeling Angry? Learning to control anger, rather than letting it control you. Stress How to recognize and deal with stress so that it won’t damage your health. Separation and Divorce Coping with your feelings when your marriage ends. Coping with Unemployment Strategies for maintaining your emotional well-being while you are unemployed. You and Your Aging Parents How to cope when your parents start to need your help. Growing Older Dealing with the changes caused by aging. Preventing Suicide How to cope if you or someone you know is considering suicide. Grief After Suicide Coping with your feelings when someone has committed suicide. Grieving What to expect and how to cope with the death of a loved one. Depression and Manic Depression The two major mood disorders: their symptoms and its treatment. Schizophrenia Basic information about the illness and its treatment. Children and Attention Deficit Disorder A discussion of the effects of ADD and ADHD on children and their families. Children and Depression Signs and symptoms of depression in children, and how to get help. Children and Difficult Behavior How to deal constructively with children’s problem Behavior. Children and Family Break-up How to help children cope with the separation or divorce of their parents. Children and Self-Esteem How to promote healthy self-esteem in children. Children and The Stress of Parenting Stress management suggestions for parents. Children and Their Fears Discussing childhood fears and the need to teach children to be aware of danger. Depression in the Work-Place One of Canada’s most common workplace illnesses is also the least understood. How to seek help for yourself or someone you know. Understanding Anxiety Disorders The most common mental health problem, anxiety disorders produce prolonged, intense feelings of fright or distress for no apparent reason. Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Persistent, unwanted thoughts that lead to the acting out of rituals or compulsions. How to get help. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Coping with an event so shattering and unsuspected that it continues to have serious effect, long after the physical danger has passed. Phobias and Panic Disorder How to recognize and deal with irrational fears that can become an overwhelming feature in everyday life. To order any of these pamphlets, please contact our office: The Canadian Mental Health Association Prince Albert Branch 1322 Central Avenue Prince Albert, SK S6V 4W3 Phone: (306) 763 7747 Fax: (306) 763 7717 Email: pacmha@sasktel.net

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