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Scoliosis and emotional issues

Having scoliosis can be emotionally upsetting for young children and teenagers. Find out about some common issues they face, such as negative self-image and increased stress.

Social & emotional effects for children with heart disease

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Learn about the social and emotional effects that congenital heart disease might have on a child.

Emotional Well-being Tool Kit

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A list of free mental health resources available to youth in Ontario.

Emotional Well-being Tool Kit: Ages 18+

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A list of free mental health resources available to youth in Ontario who are 18 years of age or older.

Social and emotional development in a baby’s first year

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Read about social and emotional development in a baby’s first year of life.

The cancer care team: Social worker

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A social worker can help you and your family manage your social and emotional needs during cancer treatment. Find out when you or your family would talk to a social worker and why.

Social and emotional development in school-age children

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During the school-age years, your child continues to grow socially and emotionally. Find out more about this developmental phase, and whether your child is on track to achieving specific milestones.

Limb lengthening and reconstruction: Managing the impact on your family

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Discover how best to manage the emotional, social and financial impact of limb lengthening and reconstruction.

Suicide and self-harm

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Read about suicide and self-harm, including why these thoughts may occur, the signs and symptoms and how to find help.

What is stress?

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Learn about stress and how it affects the body. Also learn the differences between good stress and bad stress.

Coping with pain: Meditations for celiac disease

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This page contains a series of guided meditations to help you cope with physical or emotional pain and discomfort related to celiac disease and stress.

Social and emotional development in toddlers and preschool-age children

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As a toddler, and during pre-school age, your child continues to grow socially and emotionally. Find out more about this developmental phase, and whether your child is on track to achieving specific milestones.

Physical activity and intestinal failure

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Physical activity plays an important role in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have intestinal failure.

Burn injuries: Helping families cope

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Learn how to cope with emotional, social and financial stress as a family when your child has a burn injury.

Living with leukemia

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Learn about the challenges children being treated for leukemia face and how their diagnoses can also affect their siblings, parents and caregivers.

How to help a friend whose child is in hospital

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Read about some practical help you can provide if you have a friend who has a sick child in the hospital.

Mindfulness videos and meditations

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Watch this series of videos to help you or your child relax, focus on your thoughts and cope with pain and stress.

Social and emotional effects after a blood and marrow transplant

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Parents can learn about social and emotional late effects for transplant survivors.

Newborns and babies

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Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.

Physical activity and sport post kidney transplant

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Physical activity plays an important role in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have had a kidney transplant.

Special education

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Special education is the public educational system’s approach to helping all kinds of exceptional students reach their potential and get a useful education. Exceptionality, with respect to needs, can be identified in a number of domains, including problems with the senses, emotional problems or behavioural problems, autistic spectrum disorders, global developmental delay or intellectual disability, specific learning disabilities and giftedness.

Sickle cell disease: Communicating with health-care providers, teachers and other school staff

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Learn strategies to help improve your communication with your teen's health-care providers, teachers and other school staff.

Substance use disorder: Signs and symptoms

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Discover the most common emotional, physical and behavioural signs and symptoms of problematic substance use.

Stressed adults and anxious young children: Supporting infants, toddlers and preschoolers through COVID-19

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Changes in routine can cause stress and anxiety in infants, toddlers and preschoolers. How young children express their stress can be challenging for parents and caregivers, and when they are also stressed it may be more difficult for them to meet the physical, mental and emotional needs of their children.

Coping with your emotions

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When anticipating scoliosis surgery, there are a wide range of emotions to be felt. Read about fears, feelings and coping advice from other teens.