Self-Help Tools

Mental health requires striking a balance in all aspects of your life: social, physical, spiritual, economic and mental. Focusing exercises, relaxation, and stress reduction techniques all play a part in maintaining our mental health.

For additional information, click here to visit our resource page.

Many of our workshops also promote self-care, recovery, and caregiver skills. View our workshop selection by clicking here.

Bounce Back

Bounce Back: Reclaim Your Health™ is a free skills-building program for adults experiencing low mood or stress with or without anxiety. It offers two kinds of evidence-based self-help:

“Living Life to the Full” DVD: 45-minute video with 8 sections that provide practical tips on recognizing and dealing with depressive thoughts, behaviours, and events. Available in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English (check out the preview in 6-minute clip below).

Workbooks with Telephone-Coaching: 3 to 5 self-selected sessions that introduce and reinforce the application of cognitive-behavioral strategies for improving mood by overcoming difficulties such as inactivity, insomnia, worry, and unhelpful thinking.

For more information…

Please visit www.bouncebackbc.ca or talk to your family doctor.

Knowledge Is Power Video Series

Knowledge is Power is a series of free public education forums that focus on a variety of child and youth mental health topics like anxiety, depression, ADHD, eating disorders and bullying.

Videos and information from previous presentations: