Behavioral Health Patient Tools

Behavioral Health Self-Management Toolkit

• Depression/Loneliness
  • What is Depression and How Can We Overcome It? - Beck Institute
  • Behavioral Activation for Depression Workbook - University of Michigan
• Anxiety & Panic Attacks
  • How To Better Manage Anxious Thoughts - The Noise in Your Head Video Series - Reid Wilson, PhD
  • Understanding panic attacks and how to better manage them - Psychology Tools
• Managing Stress
  • How to Recover from Workplace Stress According to Science - Helpguide.org
  • Coping with Job Loss and Unemployment Stress - Helpguide.org
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Managing symptoms through exposure and response prevention  
  • Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast - Search for OCD Episodes  
• Coping with Loss / Grief
  • Center for Loss & Life Transition - Understand Grief and Strategies to Cope
  • Resources to help navigate loss - Grief.com
  • Coping with the Loss of a Pet - Helpguide.org
• Living with ADHD
  • Understanding the Neuropsychology of ADHD - Ologies Podcast
  • Time Management Skills for the ADHD Brain - ADDitude Magazine
• Managing Anger
  • Seven Steps for Better Managing Anger - Beck Institute
• Relationship Challenges
  • Coping with a Break Up or a Divorce - Helpguide.org
• Teens/Children
  • Helping Kids Solve Problems and Manage Worries - Beck Institute
• Parenting Challenges
  • Coping with Mom Guilt - Todaysparent.com
  • SOS Help for parents: English/Spanish books and online resources/videos   
  • Nurtured Heart Approach
    • Nurtured Heart Approach Podcast
    • The Energy Challenged Child - Excerpt from the book, Transforming the Difficult Child
    • Free Video E-Course: 10 Ways to Propel Your Child to Greatness
    • Parenting Course: Available to purchase
• Chronic Pain
  • This Book Changed My Relationship to Pain (Ezra Klein Podcast)  
  • A Neurologist’s Perspective on Chronic Pain (Like Mind, Like Body Podcast)  
  • What’s the Key to Breaking the Pain Cycle? (Tell Me About Your Pain Podcast)  
  • Think Pain is Purely Medical? Think Again. By Dr. Rachel Zoffness
  • Netflix -  Ask the Doctor, episode “Pain”  
  • The Mysterious Science of Pain  
  • Why Things Hurt - TEDx talk with Lorimer Moseley
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
  • How to Reduce Stress and Relieve IBS with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Think Act Be Podcast
• Alcohol/substance abuse
  • Alcoholics Anonymous – NJ meeting finder
  • Al-Anon NJ meeting finder- 12 step support for loved ones with alcohol use issues
  • Narcotics Anonymous – NJ meeting finder
  • Nar-Anon NJ meeting finder- 12 step support for loved ones with substance use issues
  • SMART Recovery- clinical based substance use support group
  • NJ State Resource for Assessment and Treatment Referrals for Substance use disorder (SUD)
• Cancer
  • Coping with Cancer - Cancer Support Community
  • Managing Challenges Living with Cancer and Beyond - American Cancer Society 
• Self-Guided Apps and Programs
  • Anxiety/Depression
    • moodgym - Interactive skills training for depression and anxiety
    • E-Couch - Interactive skills training for depression and anxiety
    • DBT Self Help - app to help manage emotional dysregulation and impulse control disorders and symptoms
    • Self-Help Tools from Mental Health America- evaluations to help identify symptoms of mental health problems and tools to begin to address them
    • Happify- effective tools and programs to help you take control of your feelings and thoughts
    • Mind Shift- - Designed specifically for teens and young adults with anxiety

      What is “E-Couch” and “MoodGYM?”

      E-Couch and MoodGYM are non-SMG websites that provides free self-help interactive cognitive behavioral therapy program for anxiety (E-Couch) and depression (MoodGYM) offered thru the National Institute for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University. This is an option to patients who would prefer a self-help approach and/or to accommodate patients currently awaiting a new patient visit.

      What will you see and learn when you go to the websites?

      E-couch and Mood Gym:

    • Provides free, self-help modules for depression, general anxiety and social anxiety, as well as for divorce/separation and loss/bereavement.   
    • Provides tool-kits that teach skills drawn from a range of evidence-based therapies.  
    • Will ask a number of questionnaires and scales about how you are feeling.
    • Provides tailored relevant information about stress, anxiety and depression based on your answers.
    • Provides feedback about areas of vulnerabilities
    • Matches your areas of vulnerability with recommends for specific modules to help one learn strategies for symptom improvement, self-management and wellness
      
      None of the information on these websites are a substitute for a diagnosis and treatment by an appropriate health professional.
       
• Panic Attacks
  • rootd - App for managing Panic Attacks
• Social Anxiety
  • Succeed Socially - A free guide to getting past social awkwardness
• Meditation Apps:
  • Calm
  • Headspace
  • Insight Timer
• PTSD
  • PTSD Coach App
• Chronic Pain
  • Curable App  
• Alcohol Dependence
  • Sunnyside
  • Sober Tool
  • Reframe
• Insomnia
  • CBT-I Coach App 
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Zemedy App For Managing IBS Symptoms

Online Support Groups

• NAMI Family Online Support Groups  
  • Peer-led support group for any adult with a loved one who has experienced symptoms of a mental health condition
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Online Groups
  • Peer-led support groups for people living with depression and bipolar disorder
• Grief Share
  • 13- week support groups that help to share ways of coping with grief and gain solid support
• Grief.com - Tender Hearts Support Community
  • Professionally led on-line grief support group with virtual meetings, education and mutual support
• PFLAG Virtual Support Group for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them
  • Monthly peer-led virtual support groups for LGBTQ+ loved ones  
• The Trevor Project - Online support for LGBTQ+ people ages 13-24
  • Peer support, online moderated forums
• CancerCare Online Support Groups for People Affected by Cancer  
  • Professionally facilitated support groups
• American Cancer Society Support Programs and Services
  • Peer matching, 24/7 professionally staffed helpline