Resources for Students
Resources for All Students
- Resources for Students with Learning Disabilities: Students with learning disabilities sometimes find college overwhelming, in this BestCollege guide there is a list of accommodations and assistive technology for students in need.
- The JED Foundation: JED Campus guides colleges and universities through a collaborative process of program and policy development, with customized support by a dedicated campus advisor to help you build upon your existing student mental health offerings. This four-year strategic partnership allows you to assess and enhance the work already being done, as well as foster positive, systemic change on your campus and in your community. The JEd foundation is also in partnership with ULifeline which is also a helpful resource for college students dealing with their mental health.
- IOCDF Resource Directory: This contains listings of licensed therapists, clinics, support groups, and organizations that specialize in working with OCD and related disorders. Anyone can search the Resource Directory by zip code, city/state, city/country, or full street address in order to find results close to you.
- The National Center for College Students with Disabilities: Students, caregivers, and others who are looking for information or referral to resources, can contact the NCCSD. Gain access to their training about maximizing your accommodations.
- The International Accreditation of Counseling Services: IACS is the only international organization that focuses solely on accrediting professional counseling centers on higher academic campuses. Click here for a list of universities that have already been accredited. This may be useful for highs chool students trying to narrow down their college choices.
- Documentation Guidelines for Psychiatric Disabilities (from the College Board): This is an important link for students seeking to follow the proper guidelines for accommodations in college.
- RespectAbility: RespectAbility is a diverse, disability-led nonprofit that works to create systemic change in how society views and values people with disabilities, and that advances policies and practices that empower people with disabilities to have a better future. Their mission is to fight stigmas and advance opportunities so people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of community.
- The Disability Visibility Project: The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network: The Autistic Self Advocacy Network seeks to advance the principles of the disability rights movement with regard to autism by working to empower autistic people across the world to take control of our own lives and the future of our common community.
- Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 (in the US and Canada) to connect with a trained crisis counselor for free, 24/7 crisis support via text message. Visit www.crisistextline.org to learn more about international options.
- Find a Helpline: If you are international and are seeking to call, text or talk to someone in your country, this is a great resource.
Resources for BIPOC Students
- The Steve Fund: The Steve Fund is the nation’s leading organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color.
- Black, Disabled, and Proud: A website for college students, created by the HBCU Disability Consortium and the Association on Higher Education And Disability.
- Easterseals Black Child Fund: The Black Child Fund was established to help end racial disparities in healthcare, childcare, and education faced by Black children early and throughout life.
- The Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network: The IPWDGN is a network of indigenous persons with disabilities that promotes the rights of indigenous persons with disabilities, reach out to new communities and engage with international and regional human rights and development processes.
- The Native American Disability Law Center: The Law Center's mission is to advocate so that the rights of Native Americans with disabilities in the Four Corners area are enforced, strengthened and brought in harmony with their communities.
- Asian Mental Health Collective: The mission of the AMHC is to normalize and destigmatize mental health within the Asian community, aspiring to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.
- National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association: The mission of the NAAPIMHA is to promote the mental health and well being of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
- MannMukti: MannMukti strives to encourage healthy, open dialogue of South Asian mental health issues in an effort to remove stigma, improve awareness, and promote self-care.
- QTPoC Mental Health: A Facebook group that seeks to empower the community through knowledge and compassion, with the ultimate goals of creating online & offline spaces for LGBTQ2IA people of color to be comfortably, unapologetically our whole selves.
- National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network: The National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). We work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces.
Resources for LGBTQIA+ Students
- The Trevor Project: LGBTQ youth struggling with their mental health can call, text, or chat with a counselor, and you can Connect with an affirming international community for LGBTQ young people.
- QTPoC Mental Health: A Facebook group that seeks to empower the community through knowledge and compassion, with the ultimate goals of creating online & offline spaces for LGBTQ2IA people of color to be comfortably, unapologetically our whole selves.
- National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network: The National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). We work at the intersection of movements for social justice and the field of mental health to integrate healing justice into both of these spaces.
Apps
Did you know that there are lots of apps out there for mental health, anxiety, and wellness? Keep reading to learn more about these apps and see some examples, selected by One Mind PsyberGuide.
How can I use an app to help me manage my anxiety, mood, or overall wellness?
You probably already use apps a lot throughout the day: to help you get from place to place, to connect and share things with friends, or to set reminders and alarms. You may not know that there are also lots of apps out there that focus on mental health. These apps help you learn new skills and practice techniques which can help support your mental health journey.
How do I use these apps, and what are the benefits?
You can use apps on their own, as you’re waiting for a therapy appointment, or as an add-on to therapy. There are a lot of great benefits to using mental health apps; they are free or low cost, and they can be used “on the go”, and they offer creative and fun ways to manage mental health (so you might even have some fun when you use them!). Apps are not a replacement for seeing a professional, so you should always reach out to your healthcare provider if you need support.
How do I find the right app?
One resource that can help you find a mental health app is OneMindPsyberGuide.org. This is a non-profit organization that reviews apps for mental health and wellness, to help you find one that’s right for you.
Learn more about all of these apps, and find more, on our App Guide. You can also follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for more helpful tips on using apps and technology to help manage anxiety.
Books
For Younger Students
- Adalyn's Clare, by Kari Dunn Buron
- Ten Turtles on Tuesday: A Story for Children About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, by Ellen Flanagan Burns
- The ABC's of OCD!, by Kathleen Dunn
- Repetitive Rhonda, by Jan Evans, MA
- No One is Perfect and YOU Are a Great Kid, by Kim Hix
- What to do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD, by Dawn Huebner, PhD
- Blink Blink Clop Clop: Why Do We Do Things We Can't Stop? An OCD Storybook, by E Katia Moritz, PhD and Jennifer Jablonsky
- Mr. Worry: A Story About OCD, by Holly L. Niner
- The OCD Workbook for Kids, by Anthony Puliafico, PhD & Joanna Robin, PhD
- Willow Wonders. Why do I Worry?, by Wynne Radcliffe and Kristin Beckstrom Radcliffe
- A Thought is Just a Thought A Story of Living with OCD, by Leslie Talley
- Up & Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment, by Aureen P. Wagner, PhD
- Take Control of OCD: The Ultimate Guide for Kids With OCD, by Bonnie Zucker
- Practice Being Brave: Owning My OCD, by Molly Grambel
- Trudel the Schnoodle, by Jane Buseck
For Older Students
