Mental Health & Mental Illness Resources
Faith in An Anxious World - Fuller Youth Institute
Resource type: Curriculum, Anxiety, In-person
This 4-week curriculum is designed to help open channels of communication between young people and their peers, their parents, and the church about mental health. It integrates anxiety into conversations about discipleship and holistic, faithful living.
Resource Type: Book, Anxiety, Grief
A celebration of hope, wonder, and the human experience. Highlights personal struggles, provides words of encouragement in moments of loss, and reminds readers that it is okay to ask for help.
The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens - Karen Bluth
Resource type: Book, Mindfulness
The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens offers valuable tools based in mindfulness and self-compassion to help you overcome self-judgment and self-criticism, cultivate compassion toward yourself and others, and embrace who you really are.
Winning the War in Your Mind - Craig Groeschel
Resource type: Book, Anxiety
In this bestselling and highly rated book, Groeschel draws upon Scripture and the latest findings of brain science, laying out practical strategies that will free you from the grip of harmful, destructive thinking and enable you to live the life of joy and peace that God intends you to live.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
Resource type: Book, Trauma, Psychology
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.
Mental Health First Aid and Suicide Prevention - The Episcopal Church
Resource type: Guide, Additional Web Resources, Suicide Prevention
This web-page created by the Episcopal Church's Faith Formation Ministry has an abundance of resources dealing with mental health as well as suicide prevention.
Resource type: Book, Youth Ministry, Ministry with Teenagers
In this book Will and Dr. Chinwe will help you understand how the brain works when someone is in despair and discover simple yet powerful tools you can use everyday to connect with a kid or teenager to help them heal. A beautiful convergence of faith and psychology, Seen is a quick read that uses both clinical research and real life stories to give you--and the kids you love--hope.
