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Mental Health Library
Canadian Centre of Integrative Psychology & Healthcare (CCIPH)
The Canadian Centre of Integrative Psychology & Healthcare (CCIPH) team has compiled a list of self-help books and interesting reads related to various mental health topics.
Mental Health Coalition
The Mental Health Coalition is a group of leading mental health organizations, brands, and individuals who have joined forces to end the stigma surrounding mental health and to change the way people talk about, and care for, mental illness.
Mental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world's leading research centres in its field.
https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-health-and-covid-19
LGBTQA2S+ Links & Books
Edmonton 2 Spirit Society (E2S)
Edmonton 2 Spirit Society (E2S) is a non-profit organization based in the traditional lands of amiskwacîwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ on Turtle Island, colonially known as Edmonton, AB.
Trans Wellness Initiative (TWI)
The TWI is a CBRC program that works to increase access to healthcare services, build connections within the community, and foster capacity for self-advocacy by uniting community members, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers.
Gender Creative Kids
Gender Creative Kids is a reference community organization that has supported trans, non-binary, and gender-fluid youth’s affirmation within their families, schools, and communities
PFLAG Canada
Pflag Canada is a national charitable organization, founded by parents who wished to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their LGBTQ2S children.
Skipping Stone Foundation
Skipping Stone provides affirming care to trans and gender-diverse youth, adults, and families in Calgary, AB.
Trans Care BC
Trans Care BC offers resources to support the gender health of children and young adults and support families as they navigate their journey.
http://www.phsa.ca/transcarebc/child-youth/support-for-families/articles-books-movies
Letters To A Young Poet
by Ranier Maria Rilke
Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies
by Anna Enke
My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
Links & Books For Couples
The Gottman Method
by Dr. Julie & John Gottman
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
by John Gottman & Nan Silver
Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved
by Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt
The Five Love Languages
by Gary Chapman
Links & Books On Addiction
Addiction Services Edmonton
Alberta Health Services provides services to individuals who often have complex needs, with some needing more intensive support and treatment; but in either case are able to live independently or with minimal support in the community.
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/findhealth/Service.aspx?id=1060403&serviceAtFacilityID=1093745
Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA)
CCSA brings together knowledge and provides targeted materials to support quality treatment services in Canada.
Al-Anon & Al-Ateen
Provides support for families of people with alcohol addiction.
Changing For Good
by James O Prochaska, John C Norcross & Carlo C DiClemente
Books On Grief and Loss
Canadian Grief Alliance
The Canadian Grief Alliance (CGA), is a group of leading grief specialists and more than 150 national and provincial organizations that are encouraging the Government to adopt a proposal to address national gaps in grief services that are leaving hurting Canadians unsupported in their grief.https://www.canadiangriefalliance.ca/
The Grief Recovery Handbook
by John W James & Russell Friedman