Mental Health

Individual Counseling

Consent Forms

• Mental Health Consent to Service Form
• CHILD Mental Health Consent to Service Form

NNFHT Mental Health Services

• Mental Health Patient Handout 

Assessment Forms

• AAQ-II
• Burns Anxiety Inventory
• Burns Depression Checklist
• Satisfaction with Life

Worksheets

• Values Worksheet
• Getting Hooked
• A Quick Look at your Values
• Join the Dots
• Life Compass
• Vitality and Suffering

My Beliefs About Sleep

• My Beliefs About Sleep Download

Pre-Reading CBT for Anxiety

• Pre-Reading CBT for Anxiety Download

Sleep Diary

• Sleep Diary Download

Mindfulness Audio

• Acceptance of Emotions (voice of James McQueen) from Wilson, Russell (2009). ACT Made Simple: A Quick Start Guide to ACT Basics and Beyond. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
  

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•  Acceptance of Emotions (voice of Amanda Oosterveer) from Russell (2009). ACT Made Simple: A Quick Start Guide to ACT Basics and Beyond. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

  To download a copy of the Acceptance of Emotions (voice of Amanda Oosterveer) audio to a desktop computer, RIGHT CLICK here, choose SAVE LINK AS and then save the file to your computer.

• Mindfulness of the Breath (voice of James McQueen) from Wilson, Russell (2009). ACT Made Simple: A Quick Start Guide to ACT Basics and Beyond. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
  

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• Mindfulness of Breath (voice of Amanda Oosterveer) from Russell (2009). ACT Made Simple: A Quick Start Guide to ACT Basics and Beyond. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

  To download a copy of the Mindfulness of the Breath (voice of Amanda Oosterveer) audio to a desktop computer, RIGHT CLICK here, choose SAVE LINK AS and then save the file to your computer

• Acceptance and Commitment Mindfulness (voice of James McQueen) from Wilson, Russell (2009). ACT Made Simple: A Quick Start Guide to ACT Basics and Beyond. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
  

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• Watch Your Thinking (voice of James McQueen) from Wilson, Russell (2009). ACT Made Simple: A Quick Start Guide to ACT Basics and Beyond. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
  

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• Grounding (voice of James McQueen) from Forsyth, J. P., & Eifert, G. H. (2008). The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A guide to breaking free from anxiety, phobias, and worry using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
  Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
  

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• Mindful Eating (voice of James McQueen) Adapted from: Teasdale, J., Williams, M. and Segal, Z (2014). The Mindful Way Workbook. New York: The Guildford Press.For this exercise you will need a raisin, a comfortable setting where you will not be disturbed and good lighting.

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• Hexaflex Mindfulness Exercise (voice of Amanda Oosterveer) from Russell (2009). ACT Made Simple: A Quick Start Guide to ACT Basics and Beyond. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

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• Mindfulness of Values (voice of James McQueen) from: Forsyth, J.P. & Eifert, G.H. (2016). The Mindfulness and Aceptance Workbook for Anxiety. 2nd Ed. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

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• Building Flexible Attention (voice of James McQueen) from: Westrup, D. & Wright, M.J. (2017). Learning ACT For Group Treatment: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Training Manual for Therapists. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

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• Getting in Touch With the Rewards of Living My Values (voice of James McQueen) from Forsyth, J.P. & Eifert, G.H. (2016). The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety. 2nd Ed. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
  

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External Resources

• • Overview of Mental Health Services for YOUTH in Niagara
    
  • Alzheimer’s Society
    Offers support, services, programs and education to those with dementia and their families.

• • Arthritis Society
    Provides education, support and services to those with arthritis.

• • Bereavement Resource Council of Niagara
    Coordinates the services in the Niagara Peninsula for the support and guidance of those dealing with the pain and grief of loss. 905.680.6400
    

• • CAMH MOBILE APP “Hope By CAMH”
    Suicide safety plans, crisis resources, suicide risk factors and more.

• • Canadian Mental Health Association
    Information, support and services for people with mental health concerns and their families

• • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
    The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world’s leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health. There is a lot of information on mental health and addiction topics, plus downloadable booklets and pamphlets.

• • COAST Niagara – Crisis Outreach and Support Team
    COAST provides crisis services to people who are in the Niagara Region and have a mental health concern. COAST is not a rapid-response team – for life threatening emergencies, call 911

• • Community Mental Health Program (Niagara Region Public Health)
    Provides community based treatment for those over the age of 16 who are experiencing serious mental illness. 905.688.2854 x7262

• • Contact Niagara
    First link service connection for children with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties, as well as children and adults with developmental disabilities.

• • Design For a New Tomorrow
    Provides individual and group counseling to enable women to become non-victims of physical or mental abuse.
    Women’s services: 905.684.1223
    Men’s services: 905.684.7713

• • Distress Centre Niagara
    Provides a free, confidential, 24-hour distress line. They assist callers in solving problems and intervening in life threatening situations. 905.688.3711

• • Gateway Niagara
    Assists individuals with housing issues, homelessness and Community Treatment Orders (CTO). 905.735.4445

• • Gillian’s Place
    Assisting abused women and their children with temporary shelter, counseling, court assistance and advocacy.
    Crisis Line: 905.684.8331

• • Grief Network Niagara
    A compilation of bereavement, hospice, palliative and community services in the Niagara Region

• • Hospice Niagara
    A variety of programs and support for people living with a life-threatening illness and their families.

• • Information Niagara
    A detailed listing of programs and services within the Niagara Region to assist with vital information that will enable you to get direction for the issues you face.

• • Job Bank
    Listing of job opportunities in Niagara and other parts of Canada.
• Pathstone Mental Health
  Provides children’s mental health treatments from birth to 18 years of age. 905.688.6850
  Child Crisis Services – 1.800.263.4944

• STEP Centre
  A Niagara-based program that provides support services, life skills and counseling for youth ages 12-17.

Russ Harris Audio Files

• A Compassionate Hand (by Russ Harris)
• Kind Energy (by Russ Harris)
• Two-Handed Self-Compassion (by Russ Harris)