Resources
Hotlines and Helplines
British Columbia Crisis Line
Greater Vancouver Area Crisis Line
Distress Centre Calgary
Manitoba Suicide Prevention and Support Line
Saskatchewan Healthline
Nova Scotia Crisis Line
New Brunswick Chimo Helpline
Newfoundland & Labrador Helpline
PEI Helpline
Canadian Mental Health Association – Yukon Helpline
Northwest Territories Helpline
Kamatsiaqtut Nunavut Helpline
Canadian Mental Health Crisis Line
Kids Help Phone
Canada Suicide Prevention Line (24/7)
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line
Canadian Mental Health Alliance – Quebec Crisis Line
Trans Lifeline
Toronto Distress Centre
Spectra Helpline for Greater Toronto Area
Naseeha International Hotline for Muslim Youth
Victim Services Toronto
Support Lines
British Columbia Mental Health Support Line (no area code needed)
British Columbia Alcohol & Drug Information and Referral Service
Alberta Mental Health Help Line
Alberta Addiction and Mental Health Line
Hope for Wellness
Ontario Assaulted Women's Helpline
Mood Disorders Association of Ontario
Good2Talk Helpline for Ontario Students
LGBT Youthline Ontario
Connex Ontario
Black Youth Help Line
Across Boundaries Youth Mental Health Support
Access Alliance Support for Youth Immigrants & Refugees
Talk4Healing Support for Indigenous Women
Canadian Association of Music Therapists
Research Citations
Brain Science
Brain Parts
Brain Anatomy and How the Brain Works
Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years
Brain Dysfunction by Location – Brain, Spinal Cord, and Nerve Disorders
The Teen Brain
Amygdala Hijack: What It Is, Why It Happens & How to Make It Stop
What Part of the Brain Controls Emotions? Fear, Happiness, Anger, Love
What’s the deal with dopamine?
Similarity between ‘dopamine’ and ‘dope’ is coincidence
Listening to the music you love will make your brain release more dopamine, study finds
What’s wrong with me?
Today sucks
Exercise, Depression, and the Brain
Acute Modulation of Cortical Glutamate and GABA Content by Physical Activity
Neurotransmitters Help Control Unwanted Thoughts
How to Reduce Negative Self-Talk for a Better Life
Challenge Your Stinking Thinking
Hippocampal GABA Enables Inhibitory Control over Unwanted Thoughts
Stress
Chronic Stress Puts Your Health At Risk
6 Common Triggers of Teen Stress
Cross Cultural Understanding of Stress and Coping Mechanisms
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What’s the Difference Between Stress and Anxiety?
Anxiety Disorders: An Information Guide
Music Therapy in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Self-Harm
Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: What We Know, and What We Need to Know
Nonsuicidal Self Injury in Youth
Study Shows Self-Harm High Among First Nations Youth
Self-Injury: A general information guide
Bipolar Disorder
The Effects of Music Therapy on Individuals Suffering from Psychiatric Disorders
Music and Bipolar Disorder: Schumann’s Carnaval
Addiction
Addiction and Addictive Personality
Opioid and Stimulant Related Harms in Canada
Why do we get addicted to things?
Music Therapy and Substance Abuse Treatment
ADHD
Feeling the beat: Symposium explores the therapeutic effects of rhythmic music
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians
Pathways to Healing: a Mental Health Guide for First Nations People
Panic Disorder
What to do (and carry with you) to cope with a panic attack
Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: An Information Guide
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Care in all settings
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: an Overview
Mind & Music
How We Listen to Music
Humans are ‘a musical species’, according to Oliver Sacks
Tips on listening from Elliot Schwartz
Learning and Performing
Ted Talk: How playing an instrumental benefits your brain
Does Singing Facilitate Social Bonding?
Associations Between Musical Training, Intelligence and Executive Functions in Adulthood
Music as Therapy
What is music therapy?
Helping youth find their voice
The Effect of Music-Based Intervention on Depression and Anhedonia
Canadian Association of Music Therapists
The Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy
Music and Health Science Research Collaboratory at University of Toronto
History
David Playing the Harp Before Saul
Credits
Expert Reviewers/Advisors
Dr. Marco Battaglia, Psychiatry, Associate Chief, Division of Child and Youth Psychiatry, CAMH
Jennifer Buchanan, Canadian Association of Music Therapists
Dr. Elyse Dubo, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Hélène Engel, Music Therapist
Tina Fedeski, MSM, CEO and Artistic Director, OrKidstra, Ottawa
Alicia House, Psychotherapist, Music Therapist, Whole Tone Therapy
Dr. David Hussey, Social Work, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Joel Kroeker, Jungian Psychiatry, Music Therapy, Ethnomusicology, Singer-Songwriter
Ken McLeod, President/CEO Sistema New Brunswick
Dr. Alan Peterkin, Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, University of Toronto, Director, Health, Arts and Humanities Program
Dr. Sam Porter – Nursing Sociology, Dept. of Social Sciences and Social Work, Bournemouth University
Dr. Monidipa Ravi, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Family Psychology Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Joseph Brant Hospital
Dr. E. Glenn Schellenberg, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Toronto, Insituto Universitáriao de Lisboa, Portugal
Dr. Wendy Stewart, Paediatric Neurology, Director, Medical Humanities HEALS Program, Dalhousie University
Dr. Michael Thaut, Professor, Music and Health, Professor of Neuroscience, Director, Music and Health Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto Faculty of Music
Real Stories Contributors
Mohamed Ahmed
Hailey Benedict
Olive Bestvater
Jaeyoung Chong
Helen Faucher
Daniel Friedberg
Lily Gelman
Keltie Monaghan
Alex de Nassau
Herb Stanley
Aaron Witherspoon
Robyn Noname
Benson Wang
Writers
Gail Sidonie Šobat
Heather Camlot
Web Development
Donald K. Johnson, O.C.
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