ADD/ADHD
Mercer County CHADD Group: offers evening support groups in Princeton
Apps to help you manage your ADD
National Resource Center on ADHD – www.help4adhd.org
Testing for Attention Deficit Disorder, Reading or Learning Disorders, and Developmental Dyslexia:
Students enrolled in the Student Health Benefit Plan have a lifetime benefit of up to $300 toward the cost of testing for Attention Deficit Disorder, Reading or Learning Disorders, and Developmental Dyslexia. Counseling and most medications for treatment of ADD are covered under this plan. A referral for ADD testing with a therapist in the Specialty Counseling Provider Network must be obtained through the Director of Student Counseling.
Addictions/Co-Dependence
Couples /Relationships
- The 36 Questions That Lead to Love – 36 question to deepen intimacy
- Relationship Accountability Spectrum
Depression/Suicide
- General Facts – NIMH
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – SAD symptoms and treatment information
- National Foundation for Depressive Illness – www.depression.org
- National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association – www.ndmda.org
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance – www.dbsalliance.org
- How Depression Effects Learning Disabilities – www.ezinearticles.com
Eating Disorders
- Life Without Ed – https://jennischaefer.com/books/life-without-ed/
Finances
- Contact your Bursar or Financial Aid office for help managing your tuition responsibilities.
- Getting Finances Done – www.gettingfinancesdone.com
- Money Under 30 – www.moneyunder30.com
- Free From Broke – www.freefrombroke.com
- Mint.com – www.mint.com
- Quicken® – quicken.intuit.com
Generic Mental Health Resources
- Psychology Today – therapists.psychologytoday.com/pto/home.php
- National Institute of Mental Health – LOTS of wonderful information!! – www.nimh.nih.gov
- National Mental Health Association – www.nmha.org
- A great collection of different resources from Lehigh Valley Health Network- www.lvhn.org
- Mental Health Net – www.mentalhelp.net
- Mental Health and Drug Abuse – drugabuse.com/library/mental-health-and-drug-abuse
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) – www.nami.org
- National Mental Illness Screening Project – www.nmisp.org
- Psych Central – www.psychcentral.com
Life in Princeton
- Tips compiled for and by spouses and students in the PTS community (download PDF)
OCD
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Nearly Ruined Her Life – Washington Post article by Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff
Racial and Cultural Trauma
- Family Care, Community Care and Self-Care Tool Kit prepared by The Community Healing Network, Inc., and The Association of Black Psychologists
Sexual Assault
To discuss concerns about relationship or sexual violence, contact your health care provider, local Women’s Center, or one of the resources below.
- Womanspace, Lawrenceville, NJ
- Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) – www.rainn.org
- National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s Bystander Intervention Resources –
www.nsvrc.org/projects/bystander-intervention-resources - University of Arizona’s Step UP! Program – www.stepupprogram.org/
- Bystander Intervention at Vassar College’s Sexual Assault Violence Prevention Program –
savp.vassar.edu/facts/bystander-intervention.html - Virginia Polytechnic Institute’s Bystander Intervention Playbook –
www.stopabuse.vt.edu/pdf/playbook.pdf - One Student – www.onestudent.org
Stress
- Read Up on Stress – The American Institute of Stress is a non-profit clearinghouse for all types of information on stress. Visit www.stress.org.
- Manage Your Stress – Healthfinder.gov provides information on how to prevent health problems by controlling your stress.
- Expert-driven guidebook, Surviving Stress and Anxiety in College and Beyond: http://www.learnpsychology.org/student-stress-anxiety-guide/
Suicide
- American Association of Suicidology (AAS) – www.suicidology.org
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) – www.afsp.org
- Reach Out – us.reachout.com/reachouthere
- ULifeline – www.ulifeline.org/
- The Jed Foundation – www.jedfoundation.org/
- The Trevor Project – www.thetrevorproject.org/helpline.aspx – 1-866-4-U-TREVOR (488-7386)
- National Suicide Prevention Line – www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ – 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
- Metanoia – http://www.metanoia.org/